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Thursday July 23 2015 10:21, you wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 ml> you are thinking of FD and friends... they are File Attach mailers and
 ml> they pack netmail messages in their netmail area on their own... binkd
 ml> and friends cannot do that because they do not have any idea what a
 ml> netmail area is... binkd and friends rely on the tosser to do the same
 ml> job that FA mailers spoiled us with... the truth is that FA mailers do
 ml> perform some tossing and scanning functions like a tosser but they are
 ml> limited strictly to netmail in only one netmail area...

I never was really fond of arcmailattach because to cluttered my netmail
area. :-)  The only thing I did not like about BSO is that it sometimes
left trash (zero byte files) laying around - especially for removed links. 
Nothing that was functionally wrong just felt dirty on system with many
links.   Filebox (with LFNs) is far better because one can simply drop
files into a directory whether system is busy or not.  A mailer can be made
aware to send mail first, the archives, and lastly .TIC files (so as not to
trip bad tic).  If a developer wanted to get really creative could read tic
files to see which archive/tic pair should be sent.   Also made scripting
one's own support for FTP driven fido way easier!

 ml> BSO is more primitive than the other formats used by FA mailers...

Older yes.... primitive?  Not so sure.  I never felt limited by what I
could do with it.

Take care,

Matt

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