BS> What does Confmail has to do with Squish (something i might have missed).

CONFMAIL is one of the early mail mashers.  I don't think it was part of
the original fido and fidonet software (actual code by Tom Jennins), but it
was one of the early available mail tosssers, and used *.msg only.  Then
OMM came along as part of Opus.  And then Squish came along with Maximus. 
Squish claimed at the time to use the same route.cfg file that CONFMAIL (or
was it also OMMM) used.  I found that wasn't 100% true.....   

[Yes, at one time I *did* have fido and fidonet software loaded and
attempted to run on an old HeathKit H-100 -- Under Z-DOS (MS-DOS) version 1
or 2, using the FOSSIL for the old H-100.  I ended up using a different BBS
package at that time.  This was back when the nodelist was one dimentional
and allowed a maximum of about 255 entries.  My hard disk crashed before I
could investigate further -- and in the mean time, Fidonet had shut down
adding nodes so that they could introduce the two (or was it three) d
nodelist format -- which is when the 255 node limit was removed....  When I
finally got back to hardware that I could use Fidonet with (with
appropriate resources) fidonet was up to three dimentional nodelists, and I
found that my area already had a local net.....  The first fidonet node I
had (local) access to (#56, if I remember the number right -- run out of
the local HeathKit store) also went down about the time fidonet went from
1-D to 2-D.]

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41

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