Hello Tony!

18 Jan 18 15:27, you wrote to me:

 TL> I think in my case, it was a case of Bink being the first one I got
 TL> going. From memory, it was free (as in beer),

I only use free in terms of no cost. I never went or will go along with the
silliness that a certain Linux group misueses words.


 TL>  wasn't FD shareware?

FD was/is shareware. I don't remember the what if any limit there was.. If
anythin I recall a commercial BBS needed a license, I had no BBS, and no
commercial operations. My company only provide a home, power, and phone lines.
:)  FD worked for me

 TL> Secondly, I started playing with Bink and it made sense to me, so I
 TL> kept using it.  And today, it's all come back to me with binkd. :)

I only ever used FD, and Terminate for a couple points that I needed to keep
simple.

Bink just makes no sense then or now.

 TL> I don't remember that issue.

I do alot with BBS's that were HST/HST+ and they wouldn't connect for Terminate
 or Telemate or anything, or FIDO. I had a couple I had to route to their NC or
 HUB to send stuff to.



 TL> When I had the BBS, I only got up to 2400, but when a friend took over
 TL> hosting it, he did eventually upgrade to Courier V.Everything modems.
 TL> Had no issues.

These issues seemed to show up starting when the 14.4 and 28.8 stuff. Although
I had a 33.6 external no name clone that did seem to work better than Zoom and
other name band stuff. The biggest issue was making sure to get hardware
modems, which is one reason I stuck to externals mostly, and I like blinken
lights! :) ;) Made for great ambiance lighting! :) ;)


 TL> Hydra rins a bell.  In any case, it was a cool feature of Bink,
 TL> especially at slower modem speeds or for large volumes of mail.

There were a couple of improvements via external protocols Hydra and something
else is in the back of my mind, can't think of it though.

 TL> I programmed in BASIC, Pascal (generally Turbo Pascal), and various
 TL> assembly languages, including 8080, 8086, 6809, and even PIC16F84.

In a time long long ago. I started with BASIC on various things from VAX/VMS to
 PDP's to Atari 4|800's to some CP/M based things. The PDP needed assembler to
do some things, and that progressed into similar on various other chips. My EE
project needed 68HC11 software, I had this really whizo emulator that I could
do all kinds of things to create my software way quicker than those that had to
 play with the actual testbed boards. I did PASCAL for my CIS class language as
 I had TP and, again could do it all at home versus fighting for terminal time
or calling into the mainframe. I just had to provide full source and with the
binary.


 TL> I know it was possible to use an SMTP server under OS/2 (there was one
 TL> that worked with GIGO), and I even managed to get GIGO to work with an
 TL> old version of MDaemon under 32 bit Windows (I was running NT 4 at the
 TL> time).  I can't recall if I was still gating Usenet at the time, or if
 TL> it was just email (including gated maiing lists).  I know I had to
 TL> convert from UUCP to SPTP (and NNTP?) when my ISP stopped offering
 TL> UUCP.

I am not sure what GIGO did on OS/2, I never touched it. I only begrundignly
used stuff passed DOS, as I was forced to. I needed an ICLID program and to get
 the one I needed, it needed win 3.1. Then I needed network stuff so I got
Wfwg. I ran that well into 90's. I probably was one of the last still running
10Base2. I even had this cute little hub that would take 10B2 and split to
10Base5 or Cat5 like today. I ran that well into 2000-2001. Ain't broke, don't
break it! I even packed it all up 3 times and reset it up! I was limited to
ISDN well into 2000's by location.

Anyway. GIGO would definitely need to use SMTP and NNTP user accounts or full
NNTP accounts, but a standard NNTP account from say NewDemon or something would
 be the prefered route. There might be a few uucp places out there, but I've
not had an actual modem on things in years. The AIO on the network does it all
now.

Rick


... NOprah!
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