• curfew?

    From August Abolins@2:460/58 to All on Mon Jan 11 04:09:11 2021

    There is talk of implementing curfew (8p-5a) in Ontario. Quebec is already doing that for most of the province.

    Is there anything similar brewing in the USA of other countries?

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  • From Flavio Bessa@2:460/58 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 04:10:04 2021
    $$subj:curfew?$$

    There is talk of implementing curfew (8p-5a) in Ontario. Quebec is already doing that for most of the province.

    Is there anything similar brewing in the USA of other countries?

    Not here in Brazil. People decided that they can?t get the virus by ignoring its existance. Good times to be an undertaker here.


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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to Flavio Bessa on Sun Jan 10 21:12:00 2021
    Hello Flavio!

    ** On Monday 11.01.21 - 04:10, Flavio Bessa wrote to August Abolins:

    Curfew?

    Not here in Brazil. People decided that they can?t get the virus by ignoring its existance. Good times to be an undertaker here.

    Is it mostly young people being deviant?

    Does Bolsonaro still consider the virus to be a just "little
    flu"?

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  • From Flavio Bessa@2:460/58 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 05:17:10 2021
    Hello Flavio!

    ** On Monday 11.01.21 - 04:10, Flavio Bessa wrote to August Abolins:

    Curfew?

    Not here in Brazil. People decided that they can?t get the virus by ignoring its existance. Good times to be an undertaker here.

    Is it mostly young people being deviant?

    Does Bolsonaro still consider the virus to be a just "little
    flu"?

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    ../|ug

    Nah, EVERYBODY IS DEVIANT HERE. I am the crazy hermit that insists on staying home.... everyone else is going out, mostly to outdoors activities (movie theaters are open but very few people are attending). And that?s from the young to the elder.

    Fortunately it is mandatory to use a mask here, altough many people leave their noses uncovered (or suffocate, according to some).

    If there is no vaccine we will be extinct.


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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to Flavio Bessa on Sun Jan 10 21:20:00 2021
    Hello Flavio!

    Is it mostly young people being deviant?

    Whoops. I meant DEFIANT. :/ The F and V letters are not far
    apart on the keyboard. I know that I miss the mark in many
    ways, and now I can add my typing kills to the list.


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  • From Flavio Bessa@2:460/58 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 05:22:12 2021
    Hello Flavio!

    Is it mostly young people being deviant?

    Whoops. I meant DEFIANT. :/ The F and V letters are not far
    apart on the keyboard. I know that I miss the mark in many
    ways, and now I can add my typing kills to the list.


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    Hahahaha.. Believe me, I had thought ?defiant? and wrote ?deviant?


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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to Flavio Bessa on Sun Jan 10 21:27:00 2021
    Hello Flavio!

    Nah, EVERYBODY IS DEVIANT HERE.

    Heheh. Maybe that is the truth afterall!


    ...(movie theaters are open but very few people are attending).

    That's sounds incredible. Are they theaters atleast forcing
    people to sit farther apart from each other?

    The whole basis for restrictions here is to minimize social
    gatherings of ANY kind.


    Fortunately it is mandatory to use a mask here, altough
    many people leave their noses uncovered (or suffocate,
    according to some).

    Technically, they say, that your mask is protecting other people
    from YOU. It would be YOU who is spitting and coughing or, as
    out Prime Minister once put it - "speaking moistly". :/


    If there is no vaccine we will be extinct.

    Is there not yet any beginning of a rollout of the stuff in your
    major cities, atleast?

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  • From Flavio Bessa@2:460/58 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 05:31:10 2021
    Hello Flavio!

    Nah, EVERYBODY IS DEVIANT HERE.

    Heheh. Maybe that is the truth afterall!


    ...(movie theaters are open but very few people are attending).

    That's sounds incredible. Are they theaters atleast forcing
    people to sit farther apart from each other?

    The whole basis for restrictions here is to minimize social
    gatherings of ANY kind.


    Fortunately it is mandatory to use a mask here, altough
    many people leave their noses uncovered (or suffocate,
    according to some).

    Technically, they say, that your mask is protecting other people
    from YOU. It would be YOU who is spitting and coughing or, as
    out Prime Minister once put it - "speaking moistly". :/


    If there is no vaccine we will be extinct.

    Is there not yet any beginning of a rollout of the stuff in your
    major cities, atleast?

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    Yes, they have reduced the move theater capacities to 1/3 of the original.

    And, so far, no vaccine. There are plans to start rollout at the end od January, if the local FDA approves it. But according to the priorities list, I should take it around May only..


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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to Flavio Bessa on Sun Jan 10 21:32:00 2021
    Hello Flavio!

    Hahahaha.. Believe me, I had thought ?defiant? and wrote ?deviant?

    That's pretty funny.

    It's hard to maintain a sense of humour and lightness with all
    the constant reporting of cases and deaths due to this virus.

    BTW.. did you know you can also send and receive netmail using
    Telegram?

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  • From Flavio Bessa@2:460/58 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 05:35:10 2021
    Hello Flavio!

    Hahahaha.. Believe me, I had thought ?defiant? and wrote ?deviant?

    That's pretty funny.

    It's hard to maintain a sense of humour and lightness with all
    the constant reporting of cases and deaths due to this virus.

    BTW.. did you know you can also send and receive netmail using
    Telegram?

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    Really? How is that possible?


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  • From August Abolins@2:460/58 to Flavio Bessa on Mon Jan 11 05:36:13 2021
    Really? How is that possible?

    Firstly.. do the messages from this place arrive at your board successfully?


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  • From Flavio Bessa@2:460/58 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 05:37:21 2021
    Firstly.. do the messages from this place arrive at your board successfully?

    Not this particular echo, as my feeds don?t have it


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  • From August Abolins@2:460/58 to Flavio Bessa on Mon Jan 11 05:39:10 2021
    Not this particular echo, as my feeds don?t have it

    What about the messages in COFFEE_KLATSCH?


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  • From Flavio Bessa@2:460/58 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 05:39:18 2021
    What about the messages in COFFEE_KLATSCH?

    Those arrive at my board


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  • From August Abolins@2:460/58 to Flavio Bessa on Mon Jan 11 05:45:10 2021
    Those arrive at my board

    Good. If you look at the header info, there should be a kludge in there: TGUID. That number is your unique identifier. Even if you change your name, that number will stay the same.

    If you see a REPLYTO, it should appear to use your TGUID to construct the proper TO address for a reply.

    Basically, you can then send a netmail reply to any "tg BBS" originating message with your reader's PrivateReply function. Does that make sense?


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  • From Flavio Bessa@2:460/58 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 05:45:54 2021
    Good. If you look at the header info, there should be a kludge in there: TGUID. That number is your unique identifier. Even if you change your name, that number will stay the same.

    If you see a REPLYTO, it should appear to use your TGUID to construct the proper TO address for a reply.

    Basically, you can then send a netmail reply to any "tg BBS" originating message with your reader's PrivateReply function. Does that make sense?

    NICE! Will give it a try later on


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  • From August Abolins@2:460/58 to Flavio Bessa on Mon Jan 11 05:47:39 2021
    NICE! Will give it a try later on

    The NEXT thing you need to do is make sure that the user "Fido2telebot" is in your contact list. That's the agent/bot that will be delivering the netmail.


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  • From Nigel Reed@nelgin@endofthelinebbs.com.nospam to August Abolins on Sun Jan 10 21:29:27 2021
    August wrote:
    NICE! Will give it a try later on

    The NEXT thing you need to do is make sure that the user "Fido2telebot" is in your contact list. That's the agent/bot that will be delivering the netmail.

    What you need to do is stop using subject lines that are so long that some
    fido systems truncate them.
  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to Nigel Reed on Sun Jan 10 22:41:00 2021
    Hello Nigel!

    ** On Sunday 10.01.21 - 21:29, Nigel Reed wrote to August Abolins:

    What you need to do is stop using subject lines that are so
    long that some fido systems truncate them.

    I think of those as a kind of excerpt of the message within. ;)
    It's pretty cool. It's much better than people never changing
    the subject on fidonet at all. ;)

    Other than that, that subj line is limited to 40 chars. If the
    author omits creating one, the system will use the 1st 40 chars
    of the message for the subj.

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  • From Nigel Reed@nelgin@endofthelinebbs.com.nospam to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 01:02:56 2021
    August wrote:
    Hello Nigel!

    ** On Sunday 10.01.21 - 21:29, Nigel Reed wrote to August Abolins:

    What you need to do is stop using subject lines that are so
    long that some fido systems truncate them.

    I think of those as a kind of excerpt of the message within. ;)
    It's pretty cool. It's much better than people never changing
    the subject on fidonet at all. ;)

    And then it is not threaded.

    Other than that, that subj line is limited to 40 chars. If the
    author omits creating one, the system will use the 1st 40 chars
    of the message for the subj.

    Annoying.
  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to August Abolins on Sun Jan 10 20:33:58 2021
    Re: Not here in Brazil. People decided that they can?t get the virus by
    By: August Abolins to Flavio Bessa on Sun Jan 10 2021 09:27 pm

    ...(movie theaters are open but very few people are attending).

    That's sounds incredible. Are they theaters atleast forcing
    people to sit farther apart from each other?

    Movie theaters won't recover. Everyone went out last March and upgraded their TVs. We went from a 42" to a 55", and got the last 55" TV at Best Buy. It seemed like all of the people who had 55"s were buying 80" TVs.

    If I'd been able to really enjoy my last few movie theater experiences, I might feel differently. But, having the person with the Costco-sized crinkly bag-o-candy, the movie talker, the easily-startled woman, and the chair-kicking kid in the chair behind me, I'm done with the movies.

    I will go see the next movie that benefits from IMAX; Dunkirk and 1917 were worth going to see in the theaters. I wish I'd seen Interstellar there. Gravity was good, too.
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  • From August Abolins@2:460/58 to Nigel Reed on Mon Jan 11 12:24:11 2021
    August wrote:
    Hello Nigel!

    ** On Sunday 10.01.21 - 21:29, Nigel Reed wrote to August Abolins:

    What you need to do is stop using subject lines that are so
    long that some fido systems truncate them.

    I think of those as a kind of excerpt of the message within. ;)
    It's pretty cool. It's much better than people never changing
    the subject on fidonet at all. ;)

    And then it is not threaded.

    Other than that, that subj line is limited to 40 chars. If the
    author omits creating one, the system will use the 1st 40 chars
    of the message for the subj.

    Annoying.

    Threading works fine via msgid and replyid fine. The long subj lines are well supported in other readers. Both details work great with openxp and thunderbird. Cheers! :)


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  • From Nigel Reed@nelgin@endofthelinebbs.com.nospam to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 04:14:19 2021
    August wrote:
    Threading works fine via msgid and replyid fine. The long subj lines are well supported in other readers. Both details work great with openxp and thunderbird. Cheers! :)

    No worries, I'll just unsub from this annoyance. Enjoy.
  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to Nigel Reed on Mon Jan 11 05:43:00 2021
    Hello Nigel!

    ** On Monday 11.01.21 - 04:14, Nigel Reed wrote to August Abolins:

    August wrote:
    Threading works fine via msgid and replyid fine. The long
    subj lines are well supported in other readers. Both details
    work great with openxp and thunderbird. Cheers! :)

    No worries, I'll just unsub from this annoyance. Enjoy.

    Annoyance is subjective and any easy word to throw around.

    Here is the threading result of the string of messages including
    at the point you jumped in. The post (in blue) is your last one
    on the way out. The thread is fully maintained. Methinks that
    you may have a threading problem on your system instead. ;)

    URL: https://susepaste.org/5087600

    Your concerns could be great subject matter in FIDONET.TELEGRAM
    and would be most welcome!

    The Fidone-Telegram project is still quite young. Everything
    "new" has opposition.

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 05:48:52 2021
    Re: The NEXT thing you need to do is make sure that the user "
    By: August Abolins to Nigel Reed on Sun Jan 10 2021 10:41 pm

    Other than that, that subj line is limited to 40 chars. If the
    author omits creating one, the system will use the 1st 40 chars
    of the message for the subj.

    I think the subject line can be up to 72 chars.

    That's an old standard. The only time you'll see short subject lines is if someone enters a short subject, or if a QWK reader cuts it short.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to Alan Ianson on Mon Jan 11 09:46:00 2021
    Hello Alan!

    ** On Monday 11.01.21 - 05:48, Alan Ianson wrote to August Abolins:

    I think the subject line can be up to 72 chars.

    That's an old standard. The only time you'll see short
    subject lines is if someone enters a short subject, or if a
    QWK reader cuts it short.

    I've constructed my reply to this topic in FIDONET.TELEGRAM.

    And.. I wanted to get the hang of doing that with OpenXP anyway!

    :D

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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.2 to Alan Ianson on Mon Jan 11 10:32:39 2021
    Other than that, that subj line is limited to 40 chars. If the
    author omits creating one, the system will use the 1st 40 chars
    of the message for the subj.

    I think the subject line can be up to 72 chars.

    I see that on your Synchronet web interface there is even much more room than 40. Looks good! Again.. a wordier subject can serve as a pretty good preview of what's inside.

    That's an old standard. The only time you'll see short subject lines is if someone enters a short subject, or if a QWK reader cuts it short.

    I think Stas pick 40 because it's about the best length when viewing on the Telegram app for smartphone before the line would wrap. So, we get the potential for a "long" subject, but not too long so wraps and looks ugly in the app.
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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 11:21:37 2021
    Re: telegram subj = 40 chars max
    By: August Abolins to Alan Ianson on Mon Jan 11 2021 10:32 am

    I see that on your Synchronet web interface there is even much more room than 40. Looks good! Again.. a wordier subject can serve as a pretty good preview of what's inside.

    Yes, and subjects can be that long.

    I think Stas pick 40 because it's about the best length when viewing on the Telegram app for smartphone before the line would wrap. So, we get the potential for a "long" subject, but not too long so wraps and looks ugly in the app.

    Yep, that's a good length. In a lot of header displays they get lost after that length anyway.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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