From: htoaster@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: saving yabbs messages
Date: Thu Aug 25 13:59:21 1994

I've had a number of requests to get copies of the public message bases after
I take the system down.  Since they are in a proprietary format (and thus not
that useful if you don't run yabbs) I've written a program that converts 
entire message bases to something that is a) human readable and b) pine and
elm (both popular unix mail readers) can handle.

When the system goes down I'll make copies every message base converted to
this format available.  This way people can keep their own copies of stuff
like the poetry mail base...

If there is a demand for these files earlier that could probably be arranged
as well...

alex