On 2018 Mar 08 07:42:00, you wrote to me:

we used it as a door from RemoteAccess to provide email and news
capability... never did get it set to use account credentials from
RA,

Interesting way to do it. I simply used GIGO to gate email and news
to my downlinks.

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 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...

though... you had to login to RA and then into Waffle... i don't
remember if logging out of Waffle terminated the call or if we did
get it to return to RA so the users could do more there...

It would have been possible to reeturn to RA, with the worst case being

you

may have to log in again.

i didn't have that... i think one thing was waffle wanting to drop the "modem" connection when the user logged out... i forget what i did to get around that but it was not ignoring the DTR... when loggin out of waffle, in my setup, it did return to RA with no problems... i think we may have done the "relogon" thing around the same time... i recall having that because memory was pretty tight still and swapping out was ok for somethings but not others... so yeah, i
think my waffle was an exit with an error level to the .bat to run waffle and then it would exit back with another errorlevel which i used to relogin to RA or to go on back to the mailer since the line was disconnected... that was quite some time back, man :)

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mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

i didn't have that... i think one thing was waffle wanting to drop the "modem" connection when the user logged out... i forget what i did to
get around that but it was not ignoring the DTR... when loggin out of

I had to ignore DTR, because I wanted the modem to stay up during a reboot, which did drop DTR, and couldn't be changed.

waffle, in my setup, it did return to RA with no problems... i think we may have done the "relogon" thing around the same time... i recall
having that because memory was pretty tight still and swapping out was
ok for somethings but not others... so yeah, i think my waffle was an
exit with an error level to the .bat to run waffle and then it would
exit back with another errorlevel which i used to relogin to RA or to
go on back to the mailer since the line was disconnected... that was
quite some time back, man :)

RAM was always at a premium in those days, so yeah recycling the batch file had definite advantages. My setup could have incorporated Waffle or some other software that way, but I didn't go down that route.


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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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