On 2018 Mar 08 07:42:00, you wrote to me:

 ml>> we used it as a door from RemoteAccess to provide email and news
 ml>> capability... never did get it set to use account credentials from
 ml>> RA,

 TL> Interesting way to do it.  I simply used GIGO to gate email and news
 TL> to my downlinks.

GIGO didn't exist when i was doing this... in fact, FRED was one gate
package i tried when i got tired of doing the waffle-as-a-door thing...
FRED worked OK but when GIGO came out, it was so much easier... that was
back in the dialup days with FXUUCP and its special UUCICO program... later
on, when we finally got internet out here, we switched to it and then had
to find the GIGOTCP package to get tools to do on TCP/IP what UUCP had been
doing on dialup... granted, our internet was now dialup but we had TCP/IP
and could run servers and do email stuffs easier...

 ml>> though... you had to login to RA and then into Waffle... i don't
 ml>> remember if logging out of Waffle terminated the call or if we did
 ml>> get it to return to RA so the users could do more there...

 TL> It would have been possible to reeturn to RA, with the worst case being you
 TL> may have to log in again.

i didn't have that... i think one thing was waffle wanting to drop the
"modem" connection when the user logged out... i forget what i
did to get around that but it was not ignoring the DTR... when loggin out
of waffle, in my setup, it did return to RA with no problems... i think we
may have done the "relogon" thing around the same time... i
recall having that because memory was pretty tight still and swapping out
was ok for somethings but not others... so yeah, i think my waffle was an
exit with an error level to the .bat to run waffle and then it would exit
back with another errorlevel which i used to relogin to RA or to go on back
to the mailer since the line was disconnected... that was quite some time
back, man :)

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