Hey Gert!

Aug 30 09:40 07, Gert Koefoed Andersen wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 GKA> Yes,. They using right now Squish but is on to change over use Jam 
 GKA> as I am setting up a new complete mail an bbs system for them.

I suppose.  I really don't see the attraction of either.

 GKA> Yes, and it why is is cheeper to use Internet those days.

For sure.

 GKA> If the mail system is right setup should the mail system zip the 
 GKA> mail fine to packs as .mo? packs.

No zip here.  At the moment I have unzip on one system just to get rid of
the need for anything else requiring it.  Again, I fail to see the
attraction, especially just for messaging.

 GKA> I have tried to let Hpt use Jam but it gives error of reading by 
 GKA> scan and readig it and then is hpt crash down with erros.

I have never tried that.  It works fine with raw pkt's and squish.  I did
write a bash filter that reads in raw pkt's and converts them to pure ascii
and that is faster than hpt.  Also the result doesn't require any special
application to read or even write to it.  On a Unix system the ability to
write to it can be simply controlled by permissions if the archives are to
become system's archives (e.g. a BBS).  Overall I think it is a vastly
superior format for messaging, even echomail methinks.

I have a plan to encorporate my email into the same localized archiving
scheme but as of this writing have yet to do that simply because the
machine I am testing it on doesn't do email at present.  Maybe soon.

Life is good,
Maurice

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