Hello Charles!
** On Friday 01.01.21 - 18:19, Charles Pierson wrote to August Abolins:
CP> ..I'm currently carrying around 200 message areas I believe,
CP> and unfortunately, this phone doesn't let applications run
CP> off of the SD card, so it limits my available space.
Offloading to an SD card would be sweet.
On my Blackberry, I can establish which storage device any app
uses. It's in the overall Settings section of the phone. I
don't really need the extra storage that an SD card offers, but
decided to configure the camera to stash the pics onto the SD
card. The document and music apps can be adjusted too.
AA>> CS> BTW, saw some silly dust ups about the telegram bit..
CP> I think a big part of the dust up was a lack of
CP> communication. wh8ch is somewhat humourous considering this
CP> is a communucation medium.
LOL. :)
CP> But there has always been complaints about changes to how
CP> and where Fidonet traffic is.
I'm ok with that. Some initial complaints take the form of
concern which are a form of inquiry. But to kick up a dust storm
with no suggestion that there are options for educational
discussion is sad.
CP> "Privacy" concerns just seem to loom larger these days than
CP> in the past.
There is no provision in Fido technology for privacy. Everything
is in the clear. The nature of echomail is open and public
discussion. The privacy in netmail is under the discretion of
the sysop of the system it passes through - whether it be via
email using Juno, a VPS hosted BBS somewhere or whatever.
But it may be true that a few more people are tuned to privacy
concerns about any communications medium these days.
I'd say to those persons if you expect privacy and "control" of
your messages, then don't participate in Fidonet. :(
But I like the idea of the option of encrypted packets, and
systems carrying the "ENC" flag. That, at least is a good
indication that things don't necessarily have to remain blatantly in-the-clear
if FTN systems are willing to cooperate.
AA>> The experiment lost WIFI, X-FILES, NZ_FIDONET, WHAT'S_HOT!
AA>> & RETAIL_HORROR ..all good candidates for the independent
AA>> chat style of messaging.
CP> Again, I still say it was a communication problem. I
CP> remember Carol mentioning at least that the link was coming.
CP> That's more than those echos you mention above did.
True. I got the moderator approvals, but the moderators did not
say "wait until we make an announcement". A day or two later, I
forwarded the info to Stas, and then a day or two later, Stas
worked on getting feeds. The total time for all that took about a
week for the 1st echo go live. I think it was nearly 2 weeks
before one of the later echos went live. If a moderator was
concerned about communication there was plenty of time to achieve
that in their own echo. ;) But none of the mods spoke up or
raised concerns at the time.
CP> Like I was trying to say before during that hooplah, going
CP> forward, even after getting moderators permission, take a
CP> little time explaining how it works in the echo before going
CP> live.
But then, do you expect that every time a sysop changes to host
their BBS on a new VPS and other "obviously commericial" servers?
;)
The Telegram concept simply blew some people's minds when they
made assumptions. Misconceptions followed.
CP> Yes, there are going to be some users and even sysops
CP> opposed to the idea, but they are free to no longer
CP> participate in the echo if it bothers them that much.
Absolutely. Freedom is wonderful.
I am enjoying the Fidonews postings from 30 year ago to
comp.org.fidonet. Man.. users and sysops really seemed to care
about the progress of the hobby back then. In one of the latest
issues was a concern to be expected to carry a specific echo and
even the carry the Fidonews newsletter itself.
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