06 Jan 16 11:56, you wrote to Darryl Perry:

 MH> Asking about plans for porting the network software to Linux - but some
 MH> issues surround that due to Wayne Bell not allowing the nework software to
 MH> be open source.  There have been plans for a total re-write to get around
 MH> this.

reverse engineering the protocol should be no problem in this day in
time... especially with the ability to capture the entire session in a pcap
file for analysis... once the protocol is understood, a new binary can
easily be written... but then again, you could dump all the old stuff and
come up with a whole new protocol... IIRC, WWIV's message stuffs were
originally very close to usenet news type stuffs... perhaps it is simply
the IHAVE/SENDME stuff from yesteryear? again, a pcap will tell all ;)

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