[MUD-Dev] Re: (Fwd) **NOTICE REGARDING YOUR SEARCHLIGHT SOFTWARE**

[John Bertoglio]

From: Jon A. Lambert <jlsysinc at ix.netcom.com>
Date: Saturday, August 01, 1998 10:51 PM


>I thought I'd forward this to the list for some of ye olde BBS fans.

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>TELEGRAFIX ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO SEARCHLIGHT INTERNET SERVERS

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>NEWS MEDIA CONTACTS:
>Patrick Clawson
>TeleGrafix Communications Inc.


Ah, a stab from the past. The stories I could tell about this fellow
(Clawson) and his company. Clearly, with the total failure of RIP (a truly
remarkable technology) to become an internet standard (with years head
start), Telegrafix has returned to its BBS roots. It is realy too bad. In
the hands of skilled managment, the RIP technology could have made a huge
impact on the web. Now, Macromedia Flash and the new Adobe vector formats
have made RIP irrelevant on the web.

A question: Given the existance of the RIP telnet client, why do do few
MUDs support RIP graphics? Having worked extensively with RIP (hand coded,
mostly, because of the pathetic draw/paint programs), I would think these
would be much more popular. Essentially, with much pain and suffering,
virtually anything graphical including .WAV file downloads can be done with
this protocal.

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John Bertoglio

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