Mike Ruskai wrote in a message to All:
 MR> Not too long ago, I had a cable modem installed, which
 MR> provides me with an  unbelievably fast connection, 24/7,
 MR> with a fixed IP address.  So far, I've  seen sustained rates
 MR> inbound of over 4.5Mbps (with multiple connections, since no
 MR> one site seems able to saturate my link).
 MR> So far, I've set up two telnet nodes for my BBS (quite easy
 MR> with Vmodem), a  FTP server (using Penguin FTP now - would
 MR> like to know any alternatives  believed to be better), and a
 MR> HTTP server (Apache 1.1.3).
 MR> The questions:
 MR> 1)  Anyone know of good SMTP/POP3 server software that is
 MR> free or nearly free? My goal is free e-mail for my BBS
 MR> users.
 MR> 2)  Anyone know a good newsgroup  fido gating program? 
 MR> I've tried  something called NGATE, but it's ridiculously
 MR> slow retrieving news - only  about 1500-4000 bytes per
 MR> second, whereas my newsreader routinely pulls  120,000 bytes
 MR> per second out of it.
I use a combination of SMTPD and Souper to feed .BAG files to GIGO for OS2 
and thence directly to FastEcho2 for maximus (squish format). All mys users 
are user.name@drakkar.mhv.net or handle@drakkar.mhv.net. You already have 
everything you need except a domain name. As you can see, I save the domain 
registration fees by being a host node off my ISPs domain. 
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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