Subj : WWIV 5.0 Release + News.
To   : Mark Hofmann
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Jan 06 2016 09:12 pm


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 ;)

)\/(ark

.... The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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