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Hello Bill - 

>> It's 'push' technology to automate delivery of each FIDO
>> echo message as an email at an email account address and
>> reverse the process to introduce replies into the same FIDO
>> echo. A 'robot'. 

BB> Oh .... I misunderstood. I thought it was a private
BB> newsgroup. That sounds easier. 

>> Many moderators used to include a prohibition against any
>> use of their FIDO echo for 'elist' robots use because it is
>> detrimental to the BBS community in the long run. No need
>> for new people to connect to a BBS anymore leaving many who
>> have invested time/money in the hobby of BBS'g sitting with
>> zero users even when FIDO echos are active. Sysops become
>> drones moving echomail and not much else. 

BB> I dropped escan's BBS about 18 months ago because nobody
BB> calls bulletin boards anymore. It's so much easier for the
BB> punters to use the web. I have no vested interest in BBS
BB> personally. It was useful before the information highway
BB> became inseparable from internet. Now it isn't, and you
BB> will be the first to agree that there's no use flogging a
BB> dead horse. 

In this case the horse being flogged isn't dead yet. More like
the horse flogging itself. 

>> Elisting is the sucking sound the Internet makes as FIDO and
>> BBS'g are sucked into commercial ventures such as Yahoo to
>> increase their reach beyond the WWW browsing newbies. 

BB> I'm not much into emotion about technical things, Charles. 

Neither is Yahoo. They are into making money. 

>> Lurkers who take in information and give nothing back love
>> elistings. Less effort for them. ;-) 

BB> Makes sense. But we've gone off topic. To get back on
BB> topic, I did run up MSVC and test out the sizeof question
BB> that was asked either by Neil or by Jasen. The program
BB> looked suspiciously like  c++ and it was called
BB> something.cpp, but it was still pure ANSI C code, so I can
BB> accept the results of the tests. If you have follwed these
BB> ramblings ... the answer is "yes". 

Not much point in flogging how memory is allocated when we all
have more than we can use. 

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