Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hey Roy!

 MK> Sep 12 04:43 05, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RJT> So what are you guys playing with?

 MK> binkd configurations and polling but I think we pretty well much
 MK> have it cased now.

 RJT> Any specific recommendations?

 MK> Either MBSE or SBBS.

Not into looking at the former,  it's got too many assumptions built in. 
Never heard of the other one.  Then there's also bink/max/squish which was
finally ported a while back.  And I dunno about binkd either.  Can you
email me some URLs?

 MK> Right now I am using neither and am more curious about the bash 
 MK> scripts you referred to.

 MK> Also perl scripts I find interesting but I figure quite a bit of
 MK> BBSing could be handled just as easily by bash scripting. 
 MK> Formatting of messages is where perl scripts come in handiest.

There's some perl stuff in there too.  I'll email you a copy since it's
sitting on the other machine,  once I can get my connection working again,
it seems to be a bit upset about having lost power earlier today,  and I've
gotta figure out what's going on...

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