Some senseless babbling from Linda Proulx to David Randall
on 11-13-99  19:33 about Re: FTP & Telenet...

 LP> Greetings and Salutations,

 LP> -=> David Randall wrote to Linda Proulx <=-
 
 DR> Front Door has both a mailer component and a terminal.  You can choose
 DR> to use either or both.

 LP> But how can one run a fr5ont door without a BBS?

Most BBS programs today seem to have the mailer built-in, but it wasn't
always that way, and still isn't for some up-to-date BBS programs.

That is, the front door is a separate program, which doesn't rely on a BBS
at all.  The most popular example is a program called FrontDoor, which I
used to run a DOS-based BBS for about 6 years.  There's a switch in the
program for whether or not a BBS is being used, which just tells the
program whether or not it should exit with an errorlevel upon receiving a
call that ends up not being another mailer program.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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