Gary Kopycinski wrote in a message to All:

 GK> Hello all!

Stop calling me All!   :)

 GK> I have just switched my system over to OS/2, and I am looking
 GK> forward to switching my entire BBS and mailer over as well.  So,
 GK> where else to go but Binkley, right?

That's the same place I was about a year and a half ago.

 GK> Well, I'm running FD 2.12.SW registered now, and, given the cost of
 GK> Maindoor/2 and the fuss of installing a bridge program between FD
 GK> and Maximus, I'd like to go all the way with OS/2 and Binkley.

Good choice - the mailer is running (and taking resources) 24 hours a day,
you want to have the lowest draw on your system so you can use it, too. I
ran BT-DOS for a time while I switched my software over to OS/2, and was
amazed at the zippiness of my system when I had Binkley-2 running instead.

 GK> So, is there anyone out there who can give me some ideas as to the
 GK> similarities and differences between FD and BT?  There are many
 GK> differences.  

Welcome to the world of static mailers. In my case, I don't think I ever
got FD to route correctly. Once I switched to Binkley, and allowed Squish
to perform routing, things worked well. (With an Arcmailattach mailer like
FD, it felt "wrong" having both programs be able to route, then
telling one program not to...)

 GK> Does BT have a file similar to the Route.FD file?  What do you use
 GK> to compile the nodelist?

BT is JUST a mailer. All routing is handled by your packer, in my case, Squish.
There is no Binkley equivalent to route.fd. The good news is that you're
probably quite familiar with your packer, so adding routing shouldn't be
too much of a chore.

The Binkley docs do a pretty good job of defining the difference between
static routing and dynamic, Arcmailattach routing, I believe. 

Any Version7 nodelist compiler should work, DOS or OS/2. There's Qnode,
Xlaxnode, Fastv7, Fastlist, and many more. 

 GK> This is a good move, right?  And the price is right.... :-)

I never looked back from dumping FD - I felt like the freeware wold was
being corralled into the shareware version - any time I had any question
about 2.02nc, the response would be "You should upgrade to (and
register) 2.12 - it's so much cooler!"

This is a hobby for me, so expenses are hard to justify.

Once MAJOR plus for Binkley- the people in this echo really define the term
USER-SUPPORTED software - the people here are very helpful, and VERY
KNOWLEDGEABLE in the software - some of the people here have taken the
source code and released their own revisions!

I can't think of one problem I've posted about in this echo that I haven't
gotten an answer QUICKLY here.

--- timEd 1.10+