-=> Quoting Mark Lewis to Nancy Backus on 03-31-04  23:31 <=-

 ML>> i know that feeling... i had to remove the offline mail
 ML>> doors on my system because they were (and still are)
 ML>> incompatible with the version of the BBS software that i'm
 ML>> running...
 
 NB> Oh.  That explains why offline wasn't working when I finally
 NB> did* manage to get online to your bbs!

 ML> you should have gotten something on that screen to the effect that the
 ML> offline mail doors had been removed until further notice or some
 ML> such... 

Yes, that's what I saw... but I didn't know till now why*... 

 NB> Any likelihood that you'll be able to get offline mail doors
 NB> working with your bbs software eventually?

 ML> yeah... if i sit down and write one... there's no offline mail doors
 ML> that will work with this version of the bbs software that i'm
 ML> running... at least not that i'm aware of... this version was released
 ML> after most of the offline mail door authors left this scene and its
 ML> updated configs are just enough different that those old doors really
 ML> screw things up... and there's also the situation of new message areas
 ML> being added to the system... they're /inserted/ into the area configs
 ML> so as to have an alphabetical listing... this means that the area
 ML> numbers can and will change... many of those old doors are based on
 ML> the area number or position in the datafiles rather than the area
 ML> name... if they were based on the areaname, there'd be no problems with
 ML> moving areas around... 

IIRC, the Bluewave door was* based on the areaname.  I know there were
some BW-compatible doors (not the original GH ones) that were still
working after the Y2K fixes..  EleBBS had one built in that handled BW
packets natively, not as QWK packets.  (That's what my last local
homebase bbs was using before he closed down...)

 ML> there was a point package designed for this way back but i cannot
 ML> remember what it was called... it was a competitor with BW, QWK, OPX
 ML> and SOUP... heck, it might have been OPX but i doubt it... in any case,
 ML> it had a mailer function that tapped the boss node's mailer and pulled
 ML> the mail bundles just like another node would do... then it unarchived
 ML> the messages and you read and replied to them... when done, it would
 ML> create a bundle of replies to upload back to the boss node's mailer...
 ML> it didn't matter if the message areas changed or not because it all
 ML> operated outside the bbs... the mail was tossed and scanned just like
 ML> any other fido node's... it just makes sense OB-)

That wasn't Martin Pollard's OMX was it?  Dan Ceppa's still using that
to do his BW packets... :)

ttyl        neb

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