Subj : Re: Pure DOS TelNet ZMoDem
To   : haliphax
From : Stephen Hurd
Date : Sat Oct 16 2004 03:41 pm

  Re: Re: Pure DOS TelNet ZMoDem
  By: haliphax to Stephen Hurd on Sat Oct 16 2004 13:30:00

 > as for the issues... i hate to burst your bubble, but it is running fairly
 > well on at least 10 systems that i can think of personally. most of the
 > issues you have are probably related to tying it in with the board itself a
 > bit more, and he is addressing those with ntp 2.0.

They're issues that a BBS programmer and/or a paranoid SysOp (Rare breed these
days) not a lay SysOp.

They are most definatley not UNSOLVABLE problems however... which is why I
looked to get in contact with him at one point.  I was actually looking into
the feasability of adding NemTP support into Synchronet internally and adding
it to SyncTERM also.

A couple things off the top of my head that I can think of regarding the issues
I'm talking about:
1) File scans/repacks/zip message diddling etc... ie: archive processing don't
work.
2) Keeping tack of the uploader.
3) Credits systems based on up/downloads... for example, in Synchronet you can
configure the credit system to give the original uploader credits anytime a
different user downloads the file...

Most of them come from the fact that it's an out of band transfer... having
internal NemTP support would allow many of the issues to be addressed.  

Basically, this is the same situation that happened when YEnc became popular
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