24 Jul 15 19:56, you wrote to me:

 JD>>> Yes, and the hexidecimal naming convention is confusing without a
 JD>>> converter 

 ML>> that's easy enough to deal with, though...

 JD> Yes but it is time consuming. It would make more sense if the .try or
 JD> .*lo files had a node number in the text.  Sometimes there is a
 JD> number, but I have no idea what its purpose is.

i was pointing to using proper BSO tools ;)

 JD>>> At least with Arcmail attach, I knew what was going where,

 ML>> have you ever looked into your raw AM/FA outbound? i was never able
 ML>> to tell what was going where by looking in the directory... luckily
 ML>> most tossers used the same base filename for a system's packed
 ML>> mail... raw PKTs, on the other hand, not so easy to tell... with
 ML>> packed mail using the same names for each system, it was easy enough
 ML>> to write a quick little script that showed each file and its
 ML>> destination at the command line level in the outbound directory...
 ML>> since i've switched to raw PKTs and no longer pack PKTs into bundles,
 ML>> this script cannot do anything because PKT names are always
 ML>> different...

 JD> Yes, but with Irex, and other mailers, you could look up a que and see
 JD> what was where.  Even Taurus has that capability.

that is completely outside what i asked about... that being, again, looking
in the raw outbound directory... i guarantee that you would be just as lost
there as with BSO... AM/FA is only a step above BSO and it provided built
in tools for this...

 JD>>> and I could manage it if required.  With BSO style it is difficult.
 JD>>> Can be fixed to some extent using file boxes

 ML>> one only needs the proper BSO tools to manage a BSO outbound... the
 ML>> sad part is that they are pretty much lost to history and the sands
 ML>> of time... if they are able to be found, it is possible that they
 ML>> won't work (runtime error 200 - division by zero while attempting to
 ML>> calculate the delay loop) on today's blazingly fast behemoth
 ML>> machines...

 JD> Ancient technology IOW

what do you think that binkd and any BSO software is?? ;)

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