RS>> OTOH PVERT is shit house code and at the moment I havent actually
 RS>> done anything. The sensible approach is a PKT/QWK converter of my own
 RS>> I guess or hold my nose and use PVERT.

 PE>> Or get FMAIL and Remote Access and MKQWK.

 RS> The main problem with this route is just the size of the setup. Probably
 RS> Maximus would be the way to go anyway, its limitations on the QWK packet
 RS> door interface dont matter when online. And there is no
 RS> tagging/untagging to be done anyway.

There's not much advantage going Maximus.  Then you have to get Squish and
Maximus.  BTW, once you've installed Remote Access and MKQWK, I think you
can delete Remote Access, and just run MKQWK by itself.  BTW, if you are
running Frontdoor already, then the extra stuff required for this other
software is only about 2 meg.  As for the messagebase, you only need to
allow 2 days worth, or even 1.  You can say to keep 0 messages in the
messagebase for each area, but they only get deleted when you do a purge.

 PE>> PKT is much better, and there's another delay you don't have to put up
 PE>> with - the 15 seconds or so to get from Binkley to Maximus.  Don't
 PE>> know why that takes so long either.

 RS> Yeah, currently it would save between 1:30 and 2:00 per call, depending
 RS> on the packet size.

At say 1000 messages, with a path line and a couple of kludge lines, I
counted one message and got 59 bytes, this comes to 59000/3 (assume 1/3
compression), or about 14 seconds of extra transmission time.  Dunno if QWK
adds extra stuff in as well, and I would expect better compression than 1/3
(1/3 is right for text files, but this is even lighter than normal text).

BFN.

Paul

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