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

 SA> Outstanding! I did try an evaluation package of Falken, which did a
 SA> similar thing, but only (AFAICR - it was years ago) at a BBS level,
 SA> 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.

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

No. Current versions of TBBS only operate in their own built-in
multitasking-multiuser system. This means that third party mailers can't be
run under it.

 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.

 SA> Yoohoo's fine - up to a point. As I've said, my REC runs TIMS and
 SA> I supply him with an Othernet whilst receiving Fido. As Yoohoo doesn't
 SA> allow for more than one address (AFAIK, TBH I've not checked the specs)
 SA> this would mean two polls - one to get Fido, one to send Othernet.

 SA> I've kludged it by packing Othernet to his Fido AKA and letting his
 SA> tosser sort it out, which works quite well, but perhaps not as 'elegantly'
 SA> as an EMSI setup would allow.

That's not really a kludge, routing mail interzone is more secure when done
by the packer rather than via AKA presentation.

                        JBL


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