It's simply incredible what John Jaros said to Gaylen Hintz
 JJ> Well, this sure would be an easier endevor if there were other
 JJ> 'all ascii' BBS systems out there with existing QWK mailers.
  Yep, that sure would make it easier, but hey, I don't know about
you but I go all the way back to when there were no such things as
off line readers and we had to do all our mail on line , most of the
time without being able even to quote! :)
 JJ> I'll bet there's a kludge anyway we could somehow employ. I'll
 JJ> send Andrea Santos some exploratory mail (after I get a better
 JJ> grip on our existing MacroBBS message format) and see if she
  Ummm, I've initiated some tender beginnings there myself, but heck
if you were to write to her along with a few other sysops in the net
here ( hint.. everyone..), well, you know stranger things have
happened. :)
 JJ> wouldn't be willing to get Hector, or one of his helpers in
 JJ> the sweat shop there, to come up with a compiled door for
 JJ> MacroNET/MacroBBS SysOps. Our aces are that our SysOps are all
  Even better than that, I'm a proud registered user of the Door now
and I even got the registration for the reader in the bargain. Right
now you can register both the door and the reader for a combined sum
of $25 and that is really a good deal!  Actually the r1 engine does
work very well, and when I called in my registration yesterday they
informed me there was an upgrade coming for that version soon!
 JJ> language versatility), and that the BBS author would consider
 JJ> minor changes to parts of the structure if it would help make
 JJ> MacroBBS as 'offline' friendly as a 'power' QWK mailer like
 JJ> this would provide.
  Cool!  That would indeed make a good selling point.  Heck we could
both benefit from this deal as there have been a number of sysops
who have left the MacroBBS world to gain fidonet compatibility.
Heck , I have that now AND have MacroNet besides so I've got the
best of both worlds! 
  Cheers and have a great day!  From the Curmudgeon of MacroNet!
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