Packet needs extreme economy of throughput - part of that is a CLI driven interface, it cannot be interactive at all, really, because comms are simplex. I can't even ask you to stop sending me text until you are..done sending me text
The other component of that economy is the ability to ask for the minimum amount of information I am interested in - asking a packet BBS to send you a list of all the bulletins it is holding is..very suboptimal. You always ask for something like "last 10"
Scott VE3QBZ
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2025-01-12 20:07:18 UTC
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