Hi Everyone,

It's been 20 something years since the last time I used FidoNet, and for
the last few months I am having a really bad nostalgia about the good-old
days. It was a wonderful time of discovery of OS/2, which, in my opinion,
had the best FTN Software. I think that my favorite editor was called FleetStreet. I remember I was using T-Mail as a packer/mailer, FastEcho
as scanner/tosser, and GoldEd for text mode editing. I am not even sure
if T-Mail and FleetStreet was ever used in the United States, as I was
living in the zone 2 back than. I was trying to remember my old point
number, but I can't get past the node. 2:460/35.xx... It is not important though, even the parts I can remember giving me enough flashbacks :)

What I really wanted to find out, is if it's possible to set up working
FidoNet point software package these days, getting a new account and get reinstated as FidoNet point? :) I mean replacing the dial up part with something internet based obviously, and keep the rest working more or
less as it was before? Nostalgia sake. I've got myself a "retro" 166MMX
Pentium laptop, which I am about to turn into a little Time Machine.

I was pretty much surprised finding working BBS, which gave me a little
hope that there might be still working nodes out there...

My apologies if I picked the wrong board to post this message or wrote something off the topic.

Best regards,
Roma
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
* Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140)

Hello, THIARAMUS.
On 18/06/18 15:54 you wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Welcome back. :-)
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Hi THIARAMUS,

On 2018-06-18 15:54:22, you wrote to ALL:

It's been 20 something years since the last time I used FidoNet, and
for the last few months I am having a really bad nostalgia about the good-old days. It was a wonderful time of discovery of OS/2, which, in
my opinion, had the best FTN Software. I think that my favorite editor
was called FleetStreet. I remember I was using T-Mail as a
packer/mailer, FastEcho as scanner/tosser, and GoldEd for text mode editing. I am not even sure if T-Mail and FleetStreet was ever used in
the United States, as I was living in the zone 2 back than. I was
trying to remember my old point number, but I can't get past the node. 2:460/35.xx... It is not important though, even the parts I can
remember giving me enough flashbacks :)

What I really wanted to find out, is if it's possible to set up
working FidoNet point software package these days, getting a new
account and get reinstated as FidoNet point? :) I mean replacing the
dial up part with something internet based obviously, and keep the
rest working more or less as it was before? Nostalgia sake. I've got myself a "retro" 166MMX Pentium laptop, which I am about to turn into
a little Time Machine.

There are a couple of specialized point packages advertized here from time to time, but you could also still use GoldEd and FastEcho, and use binkd as your IP mailer...

Bye, Wilfred.

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On 06/18/18, THIARAMUS pondered and said...

Hi Everyone,

It's been 20 something years since the last time I used FidoNet, and for

Hi and welcome back :)

What I really wanted to find out, is if it's possible to set up working FidoNet point software package these days, getting a new account and get reinstated as FidoNet point? :) I mean replacing the dial up part with

You could but you may also want to opt for just grabbing a node number and running software that handles the tossing/reading/binkp functions all in one.

I was pretty much surprised finding working BBS, which gave me a little hope that there might be still working nodes out there...
My apologies if I picked the wrong board to post this message or wrote something off the topic.

Ping me an email at avon@bbs.nz and I will flick you a few other ideas etc.
you may wish to look into :)

Best, Paul

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* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100)

Re: Get Back to FidoNet
By: THIARAMUS to ALL on Mon Jun 18 2018 03:54 pm

My apologies if I picked the wrong board to post this message or wrote something off the topic.

This is the right board and you are right on topic.

Points are welcome here at The Rusty MailBox at least and I'm sure many nodes across Fidonet.

Ttyl :-),
Al


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Hello Wilfred!

On 20.06.18 at 22:08, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to THIARAMUS:

[..]

There are a couple of specialized point packages advertized here from time to time, but you could also still use GoldEd and FastEcho, and use binkd as your IP mailer...

Point packages which spring to mind are .....

OpenXP
- Complete console mode Point system for Windows and Linux
- FTS-6, EMSI, binkP
- English, German
- Includes built-in email and news clients
- POP3, SMTP, NNTP, SSL/TLS
- Available from https://openxp.uk

WinPoint
- Complete GUI Point system for Windows
- binkP, Telnet, ifcico
- English, German, Spanish
- Available from http://stargate.org.uk/winpoint

Fido Package Deluxe
- Complete Point system for Windows
- binkP(maybe supports other protocols but not sure)
- English, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch
- Includes GoldED, hpt, binkD, FastLst(all automatically configured
during installation)
- Available from http://stargate.org.uk/fpd

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.34
* Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:250/1.1)

Hello Martin!

Hello Wilfred!
On 20.06.18 at 22:08, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to THIARAMUS:

There are a couple of specialized point packages advertized here from time to time, but you could also still use GoldEd and FastEcho,

and use

binkd as your IP mailer...

Point packages which spring to mind are .....

OpenXP
- Complete console mode Point system for Windows and Linux
- FTS-6, EMSI, binkP
- English, German
- Includes built-in email and news clients
- POP3, SMTP, NNTP, SSL/TLS
- Available from https://openxp.uk

WinPoint
- Complete GUI Point system for Windows
- binkP, Telnet, ifcico
- English, German, Spanish
- Available from http://stargate.org.uk/winpoint

Fido Package Deluxe
- Complete Point system for Windows
- binkP(maybe supports other protocols but not sure)
- English, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch
- Includes GoldED, hpt, binkD, FastLst(all automatically configured
during installation)
- Available from http://stargate.org.uk/fpd

Thank you for listing this point packages! It sure will make a great
fall-back plan B for me, if my original plan of bringing good-old OS/2
Warp 4.5.2 back to life will fail.

So far I gathered almost all necessary components like binkD for OS/2, FastEcho/2 and FleetStreet for OS/2 (yay! that was the best editor back
in the day). I remember that many years ago it wasn't too hard for me to configure all that config files by myself, FE even had a some sort of GUI
setup tool. The only thing is that I never used binkD before, as I was
using T-Mail and sometimes Argus with dialup modem, but I am sure I will
figure it out, may be with some help from the community.

Best regards,
Roma
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
* Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140)

Hello THIARAMUS.

22 Jun 18 09:33, you wrote to MARTIN FOSTER:

Thank you for listing this point packages! It sure will make a great fall-back plan B for me, if my original plan of bringing good-old OS/2 Warp 4.5.2 back to life will fail.

They are indeed fine software packages.

So far I gathered almost all necessary components like binkD for OS/2, FastEcho/2 and FleetStreet for OS/2 (yay! that was the best editor
back in the day). I remember that many years ago it wasn't too hard
for me to configure all that config files by myself, FE even had a
some sort of GUI setup tool. The only thing is that I never used binkD before, as I was using T-Mail and sometimes Argus with dialup modem,
but I am sure I will figure it out, may be with some help from the community.

The very first step will be to set up a boss node to exchange mail with. After that we will be more than happy to assist you with the binkd and other stuff.

Flavio

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* Origin: Hyperion's Orbit - Resisting since 1995! (4:801/189.1)

Hello Thiaramus!

On 22.06.18 at 09:33, Thiaramus wrote to MARTIN FOSTER:

[..]

Point packages which spring to mind are .....

OpenXP
- Complete console mode Point system for Windows and Linux
- FTS-6, EMSI, binkP
- English, German
- Includes built-in email and news clients
- POP3, SMTP, NNTP, SSL/TLS
- Available from https://openxp.uk

WinPoint
- Complete GUI Point system for Windows
- binkP, Telnet, ifcico
- English, German, Spanish
- Available from http://stargate.org.uk/winpoint

Fido Package Deluxe
- Complete Point system for Windows
- binkP(maybe supports other protocols but not sure)
- English, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch
- Includes GoldED, hpt, binkD, FastLst(all automatically configured
during installation)
- Available from http://stargate.org.uk/fpd

Thank you for listing this point packages!

You're welcome :-)

It sure will make a great fall-back plan B for me, if my original
plan of bringing good-old OS/2 Warp 4.5.2 back to life will fail.

Yeah, OS/2 was my OS of choice way back in the 1990's but
unfortunately I had to move on to something else.

Have you considered ArcaOS(http://arcanoae.com)

So far I gathered almost all necessary components like binkD for OS/2, FastEcho/2 and FleetStreet for OS/2 (yay! that was the best editor back
in the day). I remember that many years ago it wasn't too hard for me to configure all that config files by myself, FE even had a some sort of GUI setup tool. The only thing is that I never used binkD before, as I was using T-Mail and sometimes Argus with dialup modem, but I am sure I will figure it out, may be with some help from the community.

There are a number of OS/2 users in here and I'm sure they will be
happy to help.

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.34
* Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:250/1.1)

Hello Martin!

Fido Package Deluxe
- Complete Point system for Windows
- binkP(maybe supports other protocols but not sure)
- English, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch
- Includes GoldED, hpt, binkD, FastLst(all automatically configured
during installation)
- Available from http://stargate.org.uk/fpd

Thank you for listing this point packages!

You're welcome :-)

It sure will make a great fall-back plan B for me, if my original
plan of bringing good-old OS/2 Warp 4.5.2 back to life will fail.

Yeah, OS/2 was my OS of choice way back in the 1990's but
unfortunately I had to move on to something else.

Me too, long time ago. And I am not planning to move back to it entirely. I just want my little "time
machine" :)

Have you considered ArcaOS(http://arcanoae.com)

Actually this project and eComStation got my attention some time ago (and
Haiku OS, but it is
another story, not related to OS/2 at all :) ), but I just don't feel
confident enough to purchase a
personal license for $129.00 at this moment. ArcaOS just doesn't seem ready enough as of now,
and there is no trial version available to give it a try.

Best regards,
Roma
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* Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140)

Hello Martin.

21 Jun 18 13:02, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

Fido Package Deluxe
- Complete Point system for Windows
- binkP(maybe supports other protocols but not sure)
- English, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch
- Includes GoldED, hpt, binkD, FastLst(all automatically configured
during installation) - Available from http://stargate.org.uk/fpd

I was trying to download the fp29src.zip file from the above URL, but the file seems to be corrupt... Could you check it?

Flavio

... "Isso e indiscussivel!" - Shadow, Enc. Paralelo UnionNet
--- MacFidoIP 1.0 (OSX)
* Origin: Hyperion's Orbit - Resisting since 1995! (4:801/189.1)

Hello Flavio!

On 12.07.18 at 15:35, Flavio Bessa wrote to Martin Foster:

Hello Martin.

21 Jun 18 13:02, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

Fido Package Deluxe
- Complete Point system for Windows
- binkP(maybe supports other protocols but not sure)
- English, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch
- Includes GoldED, hpt, binkD, FastLst(all automatically configured
during installation) - Available from http://stargate.org.uk/fpd

I was trying to download the fp29src.zip file from the above URL, but the file seems to be corrupt... Could you check it?

Sorry about that but this is a long-standing problem with that
particular file and I can't figure out what's wrong with it. In fact,
there's nothing actually wrong with the file at all, it seems to be a
problem with my Web Hosts platform! The download appears to complete successfully but for some unknown reason, the downloaded file is much
smaller than it should be??

Until they fix this(if they ever do), you can grab a clean copy from
my DropBox account:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6emzdxqbzxbxlyq/fpd29src.zip?dl=0

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.34
* Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:250/1.1)

Hello Paul!

Replying to a message of Paul Hayton to THIARAMUS:

It's been 20 something years since the last time I used FidoNet, and
for

Hi and welcome back :)

I finally made it back! My time machine is up and running.

Thank you, and everyone who helped me to catch up :-)

Best regards,
Roman!

--- FleetStreet 1.27.1
* Origin: no origin for now... (1:153/757.10)

Hello Flavio!

On 12.07.18 at 15:35, Flavio Bessa wrote to Martin Foster:

21 Jun 18 13:02, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

Fido Package Deluxe
- Complete Point system for Windows
- binkP(maybe supports other protocols but not sure)
- English, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch
- Includes GoldED, hpt, binkD, FastLst(all automatically configured
during installation) - Available from http://stargate.org.uk/fpd

I was trying to download the fp29src.zip file from the above URL, but the file seems to be corrupt... Could you check it?

Further to my previous post, the problem is now fixed.
The URL is now https://stargate.org.uk/fpd

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.34
* Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:250/1.1)