ml> yup... i wasn't ever aware of that problem, though... my dealings with
ml> WWIVTOSS were back in the '90s when Planet Connect was all the rage...
ml> that's what this node was trying to toss with WWIVTOSS and since it was a
ml> subscription service, it was literally costing him $$$ each day that it
ml> didn't work...

I remember the Planet Connect days...  We had one NET261 node here in MD pull
everything in and the rest of the nodes contributed to the CRP.  That was the
norm until the Internet when the CRP was no longer needed.

ml> it wasn't able to do PKTs back when i was exposed to it... that it can
ml> now is a good thing :)

That must have been one of the really early versions of the program.

ml> spawn? as in spawning another task to do the actual writing to the
ml> message base? :/

Yes, basically kicking off the WWIVnet network software programs from within
WWIVTOSS.  

- Mark

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