Hello K.

following up a message from Richard Glidden to K. Lindholm:

On Thu Apr 25 1996 at 01:58, K. Lindholm of 1:285/43 wrote:

KL> Recently I did a major upgrade to the system here.  Went from a 386SX 
KL> 5MB system to a P100 with 16MB.  The system also came with a 28.8 modem.  
KL> Since I made the upgrade I've been having trouble connecting with 2 VBBS 
KL> systems.  Even if I use the Sportster (the modem I used prior to buying 
KL> the pentium) I often get hung up on by the VBBS systems, and/or the 
KL> protocol reverts to FTS0001 rather than use EMSI.  

RG>   It's most likely a problem with the VBBS Mailer, VFIDO. 
RG> Get them to check to make sure that they are using the
RG> latest version.  (7.12, AFAIK).  Also, find out if they are
(snipping)

Good ideas.  Also, ask them if they're using registered external protocols,
such as dsz, I believe. The reason I say this is that vfido uses dsz for
the zedzap xfers, and if it's unregistered, it does the nag and has some
delays that will screw up an emsi session.  This happened with a vbbs
system I fed for about 6 months.
Are the vbbs systems you have this problem with using registered software?

I brought up this problem in here, as did Roy and a few others who
responded to you. So far as I'm concerned, Tims, VBBS, and most other back
end mailers should be deemed noncompliant, as most people complain of
problems with connecting when a mail link uses them.
When this system dropped out of fido, I told everybody else I fed in this
community that as long as I remained unofficial hub, we'd have only major
league mailer software on systems that wanted a feed from me. This meant BT
FD Intermail or D'bridge.

Regards,



Richard Webb, KB0RUU


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