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  • Re: BBS software.

    From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to mark lewis on Thu Mar 8 16:03:00 2018
    mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    GIGO didn't exist when i was doing this... in fact, FRED was one gate package i tried when i got tired of doing the waffle-as-a-door thing... FRED worked OK but when GIGO came out, it was so much easier... that
    was back in the dialup days with FXUUCP and its special UUCICO
    program... later on, when we finally got internet out here, we switched

    Yes, I used the DOS UUCP stuff initially, and it worked quite well. GIGO was an awesome package, though it didn't have full multi zone capabilities. However, there were ways to acoieve that. I gated netmail to/from several FTNs, by using a package called NetMgr to rewrite the GIGO addresses so that the FTN users would see a virtual address in their zone, but GIGO would receive the netmails addressed to its Fidonet address. Echomail was only gated using Fidonet addresses to/from newsgroups and mailing lists.

    to it and then had to find the GIGOTCP package to get tools to do on TCP/IP what UUCP had been doing on dialup... granted, our internet was
    now dialup but we had TCP/IP and could run servers and do email stuffs easier...

    I had to do the same when my ISP stopped providing UUCP, and I had to switch providers, but was able to listen on SMTP over dialup. Luckily by then, I was running OS/2, so the TCP/IP tools were viable for me. I also found it possible to use an old version of MDaemon under Windows NT4 as a SMTP receiver. Its message storage format was largely compatible with GIGO, and only required minor massaging to make it work. I did release a set of tools to make this possible. I suspect the only copies in existence are on my old BBS backups. The copy I had on the web was lost with a change of ISP. :(


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  • From Phil Taylor@1:275/201 to Tony Langdon on Thu Sep 20 22:19:15 2018
    Tony Langdon wrote to Alan Ianson <=-

    Alan Ianson wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    I've been following that on FSXnet, some really good stuff happening.
    :)

    Question: Is FSXNet offers echo mail like Fidonet? How many echoes do they have? How can I join?

    Thanks
    Phil
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  • From Phil Taylor@1:275/201 to mark lewis on Thu Sep 20 22:19:15 2018
    mark lewis wrote to Joacim Melin <=-


    On 2018 Mar 06 09:47:02, you wrote to Tony Langdon:

    PCBoard was or could be command driven... RemoteAcces and others,

    Running Pcboard and Remote Access was in the good old days for me.

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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Phil Taylor on Fri Sep 21 15:18:00 2018
    On 09-20-18 22:19, Phil Taylor wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    Tony Langdon wrote to Alan Ianson <=-

    Alan Ianson wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    I've been following that on FSXnet, some really good stuff happening.
    :)

    Question: Is FSXNet offers echo mail like Fidonet? How many echoes do
    they have? How can I join?

    To answer your questions:

    Yes
    7 echoes (6 for human consumption, 1 for machine - machine data). FSX is based on a minimalist model, where echoes are created only when considered necessary by the participants. This seems to work, it's a very active net.

    I think you'll find details in OTHERNETS, otherwise contact Paul Hayton of Agency BBS. He's probably already read your message anyway :)


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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Phil Taylor on Fri Sep 21 15:25:00 2018
    On 09-20-18 22:19, Phil Taylor wrote to mark lewis <=-

    PCBoard was or could be command driven... RemoteAcces and others,

    Running Pcboard and Remote Access was in the good old days for me.

    Yeah, I ran RA back in the day. :)


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  • From Richard Menedetter@2:310/31 to Phil Taylor on Fri Sep 21 09:48:34 2018
    Hi Phil!

    20 Sep 2018 22:19, from Phil Taylor -> Tony Langdon:

    Question: Is FSXNet offers echo mail like Fidonet?
    Yes

    How many echoes do they have?
    Some ... like 5.
    But they are very active. (If you are interested in BBSes that is)

    How can I join?
    Contact Paul Hayton.

    CU, Ricsi

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Phil Taylor on Fri Sep 21 01:24:41 2018
    Re: Re: BBS software.
    By: Phil Taylor to Tony Langdon on Thu Sep 20 2018 10:19 pm

    Question: Is FSXNet offers echo mail like Fidonet? How many echoes do they have? How can I join?

    Yes, it's an active network. The info pack can be found at..

    http://bbs.nz/fsxnet.zip

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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