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to: NICHOLAS BOEL
from: MARK LEWIS
date: 2015-10-28 20:29:00
subject: Did I Pass?

28 Oct 15 16:29, you wrote to James Coyle:

 NB> Anyhow, FMail is for Windows.

FMail is also for DOS... or it was every time i've used it... even on
winwhatever ;)

 NB> I've asked (on more than one occasion) for a Linux port, only to be
 NB> denied or told to do it myself. If one has time to gripe about stupid
 NB> stuff in FTN messages, I would think one would have the time to make a
 NB> Linux port of their software, so others can tinker and/or benefit from
 NB> it as well?

porting winwhatever and/or DOS stuffs to *nix is much harder than you might
think... the worlds are quite different... the first major thing to deal with
is drive letters ;)

 NB> Either way, I'm fairly certain you've already nailed the #1 spot for
 NB> software contribution in the last 2 years, hands down. When was the
 NB> last time a full featured binkp server was created? How about a full
 NB> fledged FTN tosser? Woah, Nelly! I think we may have to go back damn
 NB> near a decade or more for answers to that!

AFAIK, mystic is the only one other than synchronet... there are a few others
in work but they are way behind the curve...

)\/(ark

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