From: nospam.Jay.Harris@f664.n229.z1.fidonet.org   
      
   On 08 Mar 2022, IB Joe said the following...   
      
    IJ> I have a question, g00r00 can answer, or anyone for that matter... Is   
    IJ> there any reason why in the year 2022 other BBSes cannot support ANSI in   
    IJ> the message bases/readers.   
      
   Modern BBS packages support ANSI in the message bases.  Even some "legacy" BBS   
   packages support ANSI in the message bases (some with more success than others)   
   while other BBS packages won't display ANSI at all (showing nothing but garbly   
   goop).   
      
   Since this is a federated network and we can't control who sees what on which   
   system we tend to cater to the lowest common denominator.   
      
   Some message networks allow ANSI in certain bases only (BBS ads for example)   
   while others encourage adding an [ANSI] tag in the subject so those that can't   
   display ANSI can skip those messages.   
      
      
   Jay   
      
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