Hello jim!

Sunday September 29 1996, jim barchuk writes to all:

 jb> I need to gate an internet flavor mailing list to and from fidonet echo
 jb> format. Using Pegasus now for the inet side of things, and qmail on the
 jb> fido side.

 jb> Looked at several packages, Watergate, GIGO, Waffle, couple others, these
 jb> are waaayy too much 'software'. I don't need a tosser, scanner, packer,
 jb> linker, popper [deep breath] grouper, server, editor, BBS, mailer, nunna
 jb> that stuff.

 jb> As it stands now I could easily kludge some utils together to convert the
 jb> plain text inet msgs to packets, then toss them. What i don't happen to
 jb> have on hand is something to split the fido packets into compatible text
 jb> msgs.

 jb> So, is there something avail that can do -just- the basic conversion,
 jb> packet  text, that's it. No 300k executables with 200 pages of docs and
 jb> 200 lines of configs, no bells, no whistles, no fluff.

There is such an animal, FDINT100.ZIP if you are running FrontDoor as a mailer.
Otherwise, use NETMGR.

                  John Mudge [jmudge@ptmudge.westsound.com]