Tony Langdon wrote in a message to Jason Fesler:

 TL> Depends what you're trying to achieve.  Transx looks like a
 TL> useful program, though it's going to be toss up (no pun
 TL> intended!) as to the best way it would work on the (rather
 TL> unconventional) system here. :) 

True.. I'm looking at what I need to do to make transx do SMTP
in/out - looks like it's going to be a total breeze, no fidonet
needed to interface transx to my current gateway.  I'm contemplating
offering feeds via transx, but only to links who are interested
in sharing the cost of my copy of it on this end (I can only
host two links, and already have those two planned out.. The
alternative would be to cheat poor Pete, and that wouldn't
be fair..)

 TL> directly with UUCP spool files.  I have no idea how the
 TL> SLIP/PPP interface works, as I haven't look at that yet.

I'm not sure how it's *supposed* to work - it looks like it's
tailored to KA9Q in a big way :-)  For OS/2, the 0714 release
of the gigo tcpip tools will do the job .. for every .txt
file in the outbound, run gigomail -t  Performance depends on the quality of the path between
 TL> systems.  I've had success with Vmodem (and its DOS
 TL> equivalent, RLFOSSIL), but there's a few things to watch
 TL> for.  If one end is using a slow modem (why on earth would
 TL> you use 2400 with SLIP/PPP? :) ), files sent _to_ the slow

Wow.  I've seen people try and conect with 2400 for PPP - 
almost every single time, the handshaking itself times out
due to how slow 2400 is!

The offer is still open for entire *net* feeds via vmodem on
my system.  I'll give transx a chance to those who are willing
to help pay towards the registration cost.  However, anyone
close enough to a gateway to use transx, should probably just
use that gateway ;-).

 TL> If you can manage a reasonable connection, FTN over telnet
 TL> does work rather well though, as tests here have shown.  I
 TL> usually run a mailer (2 copies actually) on the system here
 TL> between 07:00 and 16:00 UTC, which are telnet access...

I'm seeing *wonderful* connections to Latvia nad Austria, yet
'ol David Nugent and I get some of the worst throughput.  He's the 
number one candidate to move to transx.  The other, is someone
only 45 miles from me, but his packets are seeing the Grand Tour
of the USA with Sprintlink's mess..  

 TL> Transx is a great solution for those paths which are not
 TL> good enough for direct mailer to mailer sessions, or where a
 TL> live link simply doesn't exist (e.g. UUCP).

Ya..  We all gotta fly down and by Pete a beer.  If we get'em
enough, maybe we can get away w/out registering (evil grin)

J/K, Pete!