Hi Alan and Philip Lozier,

    On Sunday January 01 2006 at 11:58,
    Alan Ianson [1:153/757] wrote to Philip Lozier,
    about: Re: Hmmmm... Thinking again

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 AI> My mailer supports IBN, IFC and ITN:60177, so FD (or any ITN capable)
 AI> nodes are always welcome to connect here. :)

 PL>> With the different technologies for FidoNet that now exist I would
 PL>> like to continue (or should I say -make it primary again- other
 PL>> than the editor) to use FD for my Fido mailing purposes.

 AI> I think you could run the binkd daemon there along with FD. If you
 AI> just add the nodes you want binkd to handle in your binkd.cfg it will
 AI> only send those packets, it just wouldn't know what to do with the
 AI> other stuff so it would leave it alone. Binkd uses the
 AI> BinkleyStyleOutbound though, that could be difficult.

 AI> I think Irex would be a solution, it can deal with FD's outbound. It
 AI> would take some configuring so Irex would leave the stuff FD should
 AI> handle alone but I think that's doable. You'd need to have Irex run
 AI> from an event in FD and I can't remember how to do that but the folks
 AI> in this echo could give us a clue. I did run Irex from BT in the past
 AI> and it worked well.

I just figured I'd throw my two cents into the "thinkin' pot"...

Irex could be run from an event and it's likely possible to also run it
from a batch / script file that is tied to a key (with errorlevel set in
FD).

Another suggestion: take a look at XRobot.  It may hold some solutions for you... ??

           Cheers ... Gerald

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