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From: Philip_Lozier@f169.n267.z1
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:48:40 -0500
Subject: Hmmmm... Thinking again
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 AI> My mailer supports IBN, IFC and ITN:60177, so FD (or any ITN
 AI> capable)
 AI> nodes are always welcome to connect here. :)

Cool...

PL>> With the different technologies for FidoNet that now exist I would like to
PL>>
PL>> continue (or should I say -make it primary again- other than the editor)
PL>> 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
 AI> add the nodes you want binkd to handle in your binkd.cfg it will
 AI> only
 AI> send those packets, it just wouldn't know what to do with the other
 AI> stuff so it would leave it alone. Binkd uses the
 AI> BinkleyStyleOutbound
 AI> though, that could be difficult.

Yea... I know that... I used to do that.  Now I just bypass FD altogether
(except for using the editor which I refuse to give up :) and just let the tosser
and BinkD do the work.


 AI> I think Irex would be a solution, it can deal with FD's outbound.
 AI> 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
 AI> folks
 AI> in this echo could give us a clue. I did run Irex from BT in the
 AI> past
 AI> and it worked well.

I tried that some time back as well.  Rather than go through all of that there
are other options that are "all in one", like Radius.  I just hate the idea of
never being able to use my beloved FD effectively again the way I -used- to in
todays FidoNet.  Putting it to bed would be like losing a lifelong freind.

 AI> No solutions there, sorry.. but ideas.. :)

Thanks for the input.

Phil