G'day Bob,

Replying to a message of Bob Lawrence to Jeff Green on 20/05/97:

 JG>> Now... ...what mail reader are you planning on using? 

 BL>   That's where I'm stuffed. If I use Watergate to create the uucp, I
 BL> have to use a messagebase... and Watergate looks like a real mongrel
 BL> to set up (but I like their documentation). 

It can be unless you've had experience with this stuff before. I'm
fortunate I suppose as I've been screwing around with the Internet for a
long while, with uucp for at least two years.

 BL> What do you recommend as the reader?

I used to like tin. I also liked trn. These are news readers. I used elm as
my mail reader for a while. Yes! That's right, two seperate programs.

I thought Emacs gnus was great but very resource intensive. I was also able
to read my mail via gnus. I have no idea if any of these are available for
in the DOS/Windows world.

In the end I setup Watergate, gated all the uucp news/mail to squish
message bases and used my fido message reader to read both Internet and
Fidonet stuff :-) A bit of work for a lot of laziness. Now that's my kind
of thinking.

I just put up with the All in the To: line on the internet stuff.

 BL> I can go two ways... write my own reader/gateway,

Possible. Painful I would think.

 BL> or set up a mini-bbs. 

Aren't they all setup for some form of fido message base? You'd still need
to gate the message if you receive stuff off Paul.

 BL> It took Paul a month, and I could roll my own in Delphi in that time (it's
 BL> pretty quick) but I can't find the bloody UUCP standards. 

It took me ages when I first tried this stuff and I wasn't screwing around
with a new OS at the same time like him. Especially considering the
documentation that comes with most of this software!

Regards...Jeff (jeff{at}matra.com.au)

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