On Wed, 07 Aug 2013, Nicholas Boel wrote to mark lewis:


 WvV>> The latter seems to be administrative only and probably isn't 
 WvV>> used for echomail, because Frank has other nodenumbers in his 
 WvV>> net.

 ML> yeah but you can't be sure of that... there are too many out there 
 ML> who are doing just that with their administrative numbers instead 
 ML> of using a regular node number for such activities :(

 NB> I can vouch for him in his (Frank's) absense. I help out with his
 NB> othernet amongst other things. No echomail comes from his
 NB> administrative node (/0 or /1). His mail hub resides on 250/100 and
 NB> all his BBS systems are different node numbers (/500 or higher).
 NB> Just FYI.

yeah, i didn't think that frank did that... there are others, though, who
do... some are even "well known"...

 ML> my main system runs fastecho... at this time, a couple of my 
 ML> personal points run fmail but that may be changing soon as there's 
 ML> been no new developments that i've seen :(

 NB> How does FMail compare to HPT in regards to functionality and
 NB> features?

no clue... i've never run HPT... i started with IMail way back in the '80s
when it first came out... it is what allowed us to get our FD/RA system
working tossing and scanning fidonet mail when the existing QBBS stuff
never did... it would work tossing and not scanning or, after some
configuration changes, it would scan but not toss... IMail did both
flawlessly... later we moved to FMail for a bit... tried gecho, too...
untimately, though, Fastecho was where it was at... as with FD and RA, i
was asked to join the beta team and i've been using all three since... i
use FMail in some cases where i need something now that works well enough
to get the job done... but for the heavy lifting, i always use FE...

 NB> I've never tried it before, but if it doesn't cover all the 
 NB> aspects of FTN like HPT does, it's probably not worth it for me
 NB> to tinker as time is a hot commodity these days. :)

i don't understand "cover all the aspects of FTN"... it is not an
all-in-one package like DB and a few other products, no... i much prefer to
NOT use all-in-one stuff because if there's a problem with one part,
well... kinda like those all-in-one printer/fax/scanner machines... i'd
rather have each separate so that just that one can be replaced or repaired
while the others remain in place and operational ;)

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