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echo: binkd
to: OLI
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 2020-03-31 20:09:00
subject: Re: Issue with BinkD and

-=> On 03-30-20 12:25, Oli wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 Ol> There is broad agreement. Every other mailer and tosser software that
 Ol> supports 5D BSO uses the BinkleyTerm Outbound Style format described by
 Ol> FTS-5005. I used BinkleyTerm and Squish with 5D BSO and I don't
 Ol> remember any difference to what we use today (with the expception of
 Ol> binkd).

I do know Mystic works as you describe, and that's how I confirmed the binkd
issue, when I was having trouble getting SBBSecho and binkd working together,
so I looked to see what Mystic was doing, to get an idea how another (this time
integrated) package was doing BSO.  

 Ol> I think the idea was that a 5D outbound is always in the format

 Ol> domain.zzz/nnnnffff.xxx

 Ol> and the only exception is the outbound for the default zone and domain,
 Ol> which follows the 2D/4D convention for compatibility reasons.

There certainly seems to be dispute, but this is how both of my systems are
running.


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