Subj : Re: 1984.ws
To : tenser
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Jun 02 2023 12:16 pm
Re: Re: 1984.ws
By: tenser to fusion on Fri Jun 02 2023 11:17 pm
> On 01 Jun 2023 at 07:23p, fusion pondered and said...
>
> fu> On 02 Jun 2023, tenser said the following...
> fu>
> fu> te> True; my mistake. But you did unilaterally
> fu> te> say, "kitty will not work correctly with BBS
> fu> te> systems." which, again, depends on the BBS
> fu> te> system.
>
> fu>
http://kirin.dcclost.com/~alex/img_a.jpg
> fu>
http://kirin.dcclost.com/~alex/img_b.jpg
>
> fu> this is what 99% of the BBSes you will ever call with kitty will look
> fu> like vs what they're supposed to look like.
>
> One could also just do what the Kitty guy said
> (admittedly in a jerky way...) and not try to
> overload bold attributes for bright colors.
>
> He was obnoxious about it, but he's not wrong
> about the technical merits.
History says he's wrong. But it's the hill he's chosen to die on. <shrug>
> fu> i think it's a reasonable assertion. if the sysop has no traditional
> fu> ansi on the whole board, then thumbs up i guess.
>
> Right so...it depends on the BBS system? :-)
"will not work" is probably too binary an assertion in this case. Different terminals display stuff (colors, fonts, glyphs) differently, but the main features of a BBS should continue to work just fine.
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