JOSHUA LEE on 04 May 99 in NET_DEV

Hello JOSHUA

 JL> TBBS is an (expensive) commercial package. It's BBS has fairly

Presumably why it isn't more widely used - seems to be run only by
those with high demands.

 JL> configurable screens. It includes built-in efficient multitasking
 JL> of the BBS, which allows it to run multiple lines even on a 286.

Outstanding! I did try an evaluation package of Falken, which did a
similar thing, but only (AFAICR - it was years ago) at a BBS level,
no mailer. Had its own pseudo-OS shell.

 JL> TIMS, from what I hear, is essentially like a bare-bones edition
 JL> of a pre-EMSI version of Binkley written in Assembly language
 JL> instead of C, modified to be an integrated mailer for TBBS.

Any idea how it differs from BT? Specifically, would it be possible
to configure BT to run in its place?

 JL> As I said before, however, not only are there many mail movers
 JL> using TIMS that don't support EMSI; there are many other programs
 JL> out there that don't. Many of them support YooHoo though; giving
 JL> one sessions as efficient protocol-wise as EMSI.

Yoohoo's fine - up to a point. As I've said, my REC runs TIMS and
I supply him with an Othernet whilst receiving Fido. As Yoohoo doesn't
allow for more than one address (AFAIK, TBH I've not checked the specs)
this would mean two polls - one to get Fido, one to send Othernet.
I've kludged it by packing Othernet to his Fido AKA and letting his
tosser sort it out, which works quite well, but perhaps not as 'elegantly'
as an EMSI setup would allow.

 JL> However, *any* node's mailer; according to FidoNet policy, *must*
 JL> support FTS-0001 sessions. For a point-only program, it may be OK
 JL> to leave this out, but if you want your mailer to ever be used by
 JL> a listed node; this must be included.

P4 - required reading. As a NC I'm aware of it... ')

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Simon

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