Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to CHARLES ANGELICH <=-

 MP>> Is this method too simplistic and am I missing some advantage in
 MP>> not using readers and packets? (BlueWave and QWK packets as an
 MP>> example)

 RJT> Though this box here pulls in more than 300 messages a day.  

 WC> Same here.

 RJT> The two
 RJT> calls so far today have brought in 275,  and there's one more due at
 RJT> 8pm,  when this will go out.  Admittedly I do carry somewhat more than
 RJT> 30 echos.  

 WC> Can't imagine not using an OLR.

I've known sysops who did,  but that never made a whole lot of sense to me,
 to pack up messages into bundles that get unpacked somewhere else on the
same machine...

I rather like the idea of an editor that goes right into the same message
bases that the bbs uses.

 WC> Can't wait to setup the OLR in Linux, I've downloaded two, ATP and
 WC> my familiar MultiMail.

Multimail seems to be very well supported.  And the author hangs out in the
LINUX echo,  among other places.

 WC> My Linux project is moving forward in spurts due to poor health. 
 WC> I'll work at it for a few days at a time than need a break. Much 
 WC> progress made but much more to go.

I have made hardly any progress on computer stuff here,  but at least am
making some slight progress on vehicular matters.

 WC> Still haven't figured out what Verizon mail wants for 
 WC> authentication in SMTP despite many attempts. I've got to figure 
 WC> out what file defines what is in the mail.conf file and what 
 WC> Verizon's SMTP wants for authemtication.

Somebody in the echo probably uses them.

 WC> One I get past that I may very well move to Linux as my primary
 WC> O.S. Still haven't got X-Windows running but haven't put much
 WC> effort in lately but think I'm *very* close to making that one 
 WC> happen. 

The hardest part of that is picking the right config lines to support what
hardware you have.

 WC> Soon as X-Windows flies I'm nuking the old Slackware release and 
 WC> upgrading to 8.1

I have an 8.1 cd here but haven't thought much about doing the upgrade just yet.

 WC> I'm going to have to link up some files as you suggested as my 
 WC> POP3 mail still insists I insert a disk with relavent info from 
 WC> the earlier ramdrive version first unless I merely open and close
 WC> that file on the hard drive, than all proceeds smoothly with no 
 WC> need for that disk. Read my old Slackware book and found it 
 WC> wanting in many areas but one place it excells and that's the 
 WC> explaination of the VI editor which though less comprehensive gets 
 WC> me going again far quicker than the book I have on that editor.



I'm *real* lazy about editors,  am awfully familiar with good old WordStar,
Qedit,  and similar stuff,  and under linux tend to use the one that mc
gives you.  Maybe one of these days I'll have a go at learning one or more
of the other ones that are on there.

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