From: Torfs Tom
TT>  SOUP (Simple Offline Usenet Packet format, see
TT>  http://combee.techwood.org/old/soup12.html) was developed to
TT>  store Usenet newsgroups and e-mail offline, similar to the way
TT>  it's done in Fidonet. This makes it useful as an intermediate
TT>  format for FidoInternet gating. At first I just wrote the
TT>  SoupGate software to gate FidoSOUP, and then another program
TT>  (such as Souper) was needed to transport the SOUP packets
TT>  from/to the actual Internet. Later on I also wrote Spoon to do
TT>  the actual talking to POP3/SMTP/NTTP servers.

    Soup spoon?   *(groan)*  :)

>  kkuzba{at}centurytel.net   http://home.centurytel.net/kkuzba
>  The forest where Faramir had stood seemed empty and drear, as if
>  a dream had passed.

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