Re: terminal without telnet

---In [email protected], <gtaylor@...> wrote :

>> I think we should be exchanging mail using software similar to Fidonet 
>> or UUCP, running on our mainframe systems.

> I like the idea.

> But, sadly, I think it would exclude a lot of people.

Can the newsgroup appear on google groups
as well? And maybe have a feed into groups.io?

> Being the masochist that I am, I'd be interested in a reincarnation of 
> BITNET and PROFS (?). (I've actually casually looked for the software 
> in the past.)

So long as ASCII text messages (or their
equivalent in 819/1047 EBCDIC conversion)
can be exchanged, go for it!

> I also have functional (but unused) UUCP now. ():-)
> If you do want a UUCP feed email me directly. I can provide one.

Ok, thanks. But I think we need the mainframe
software first.

> If you do want an NNTP feed email me directly. I can provide one.

Thanks. I actually already have an NNTP feed
with eternal-september for newsgroup
alt.os.development, but I've only used it for
testing from PDOS/386 and MVS (a Watcom
newsgroup) because I don't yet have software
to provide a fullscreen interface to reading
messages. I instead just retrieve a single message.

Driving an EBCDIC ANSI terminal is part of
the plan to have newsgroup-reading software
that runs on both PDOS/386 and PDOS/390
and maybe MVS.

BFN. Paul.