Subj : tub and bbbs, was way ot, need some maximus ...
To   : Richard Webb
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Mon Mar 09 2009 06:12 pm

Hello Richard.

08 Mar 09 22:03, you wrote to me:

 RT>> BBBS is a good, package, just when I looked at it, I got the
 RT>> impression, it  was built for some other network, and FidoNet got
 RT>> tacked on afterwards ...

 RW> DOn't know anything about it.  I"ve been in the binkley
 RW> squish maximus world every since I first put a fido system
 RW> on.

So was I, that is, till, I moved to Linux, and then there was only the Husky 
utils, which work well (use Squish Msgbase), MBSE BBS, and BBBS that where my 
final choices, Husky does not have a BBS, BBBS, was well, just a too darn 
different to Binkley/Max/Squish, and well that left me MBSE BBS, which uses a 
JAM msgbase ..., but otherwise works very well, and also has everything 
required built in, Husky also works well as a mail only system, i.e. no BBS, 
with BinkleyTerm and BinkD

MBSE might use a JAM base, but runs a BSO outbound ...

 RW> I know when I was routing through Janis my routing line
 RW> would be such as ...

 RW> route normal NoArc 1:261/38 2:all 3:all 4:all 5:all ...

That would be what I expect, but, Janis says BBBS wants routing instructions 
along with the netmail in a seperate message, if I understand her correctly.

With Squish, when it tosses messages, it checks  the address of the message, 
with the routing table, if the routing table says the mail is local, it gets 
tossed to the local msgbase, if it is not for the system, it get routed 
according to the routing table and goes out with the next connect to the 
uplink ...

 RT>> I am connected to all of those ...

 RW> AS you notice I moved this thread to this echo.  Maybe
 RW> somebody else has some comments here re: squish arguing with bbbs when
 RW> bbbs is used to route mail for a squish system.

I hope so as well, as I wouldn't mind a little "enlightenment" ... , but if at 
all possible, might be better to not route netmail thru Janis until the 
problem is understood better by the Squish users.

Russell

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