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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Sean Dennis
from: Mark Hofmann
date: 2011-04-01 07:14:08
subject: Re: NetSerial

> As I've told you numerous times before, WWIV is open source so other people 
 > can work on it besides the owner, Dean Nash, who I know personally.  He has 
 > told me, as I've told you, that he no longer has any interest in BBSing and 
 > that is why he made the code open source...

Sean - Could you ask Dean if he has or could release the WWIV network
software source code?  I don't know if he obtained that from Wayne Bell at
the time or not.  

I'm no programmer, but there are some people that could probably add some
good new technology to the obsolete WWIV network software.  

Natively, it only supports dialup modems.  There is no BinkP, FTP, or
anything Internet related.  

The only other option to move WWIV forward would be to use WWIVTOSS to
convert messages to Fido style and use those networks for everything.  

I'm working on trying to get the source code to WWIVTOSS from Craig Dooley.
Hopefully he still has it and wouldn't mind sending it over.

- Mark

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