text archives and posting via email
My girfriend and I will be amongst the lucky fews carrying a mini laptop and a sat-phone for web access, but other people who experienced internet cafes in Africa sharing a single 28K line for 12 machines might be interested too...
It would be nice to have a weekly text-only archive of all the messages posted during the last 7 days accessible through FTP. This way we could launch a single request, download the file, close the connection and read the messages at our own pace.
Example: ftp://www.horizonsunlimited.com/ubb/...2002_04_20.txt
Accessorily, an interface could also allow us to download an archive containing all the threads that have been modified within a particular forum during the past week.
Example: ftp://www.horizonsunlimited.com/ubb/...2002_04_20.txt
Finally, it would be nice to be able to post a message by email.
Example: mailto://sahara_travel_forum@ www.horizonsunlimited.com?subject=mysubject:myuser name:mypassword
This system would allow travellers on the road a fast and cheap way to post and keep track of the messages on the bulletin board.
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Pierre Saslawsky
http://www.geocities.com/skypie999/bikes/
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