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Just took a look at monochrome.
Ironically, it uses quite a bit of xterm color. Heh.
Still, it looks like a nice system. Very different feel from Citadel, which isn't bad, just different. Reminds me a tad of the old-style BBSes, with their menu-based system of navigation.
(I see a future where this entire conversation Citadrifts into another room).
I could see it drifting into Save The Text Client, possibly. Or maybe Ancient Computing, although that doesn't quite seem right (not very hardware oriented).
+1 for pine and sdf.org
I mainly use webmail everywhere else at the moment. I have only been online (and owning/knowing howto switch on a computer) since 2007 i think. And it took a couple of years to realize i could ditch the overweight monster email clients that come with most operating systems. Using a text client like pine was a revelation! B)
I recently started to reread a bit of the book i first bought to get my bearings with the internet, which was: Ed Krols 1992 "Whole internet users guide and catalog" . He statrs off with the unix "mail" client program (before going onto Pine/a mime client), but referenced another mail system before moving on "if you wanna learn more about email etc...": nameky the mh mail system.
Anyone use the MH system in any variation?
+2 alpine, but I do miss nail (slackware).
Wed May 07 2014 01:19:39 PM EDT from the_mgt @ Uncensored+1 for (Al)pine
Save the text client seems about right. There is a new room
"software" too. ;)
Save The Text Client it is, then :)
Thu May 08 2014 00:14:13 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ UncensoredSave the text client seems about right. There is a new room
"software" too. ;)
Save The Text Client it is, then :)
<pinches _arm&looks_around@new_surroundings> Wow!
Just noticed that this had drifted over from "Hardware".
I am playing about with a clone of a popular BBS in the UK* ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrome_BBS ) - named Mconv (or mbbs which is the stand alone bbs system).
And i would love to be able to access citadel via a menu based system like this. Is the possibility of having another text client connect to citserver a good idea?
*(If anyone wants to see the actual monochome bbs in action they can ssh to: mono@mono.org )
I'm ambivalent about it. I've been using the current text client since the 80s, and am very comfortable with it.
But, for those people who would prefer a menu system, it might be nice.
I imagine it might not be useful to any seasoned citadel users, but its something i would find handy.
The text client is very good and i can navigate pretty well with it; i have been using a bbs with a menu system for a while now and have grown to like it.
I have just logged into mono ( ssh mono@mono.org ), as a guest. And to create a new account pressed "g" in the main menu (after pressing "c" a few times to accept user policy and 'continue') i have created a new account and am awaiting my password via email. How did you go about creating a new account? If there is a problem i will let them know so someone can fix it.
I can see that the account is created (as I cannot log in as 'fleeb')... I just never got the e-mail confirming that I've joined (and I don't recall if I entered a password or am waiting on one from them).
just left a message with the head admin (who is online atm). He should sort it out. I honestly can't remember how long the account process takes, so it might just be a matter of waiting a bit.