Subj : Re: BBS software.
To   : mark lewis
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Thu Mar 08 2018 04:03 pm

-=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 ml> GIGO didn't exist when i was doing this... in fact, FRED was one gate
 ml> package i tried when i got tired of doing the waffle-as-a-door thing...
 ml> FRED worked OK but when GIGO came out, it was so much easier... that
 ml> was back in the dialup days with FXUUCP and its special UUCICO
 ml> program... later on, when we finally got internet out here, we switched

Yes, I used the DOS UUCP stuff initially, and it worked quite well.  GIGO was
an awesome package, though it didn't have full multi zone capabilities. 
However, there were ways to acoieve that.  I gated netmail to/from several
FTNs, by using a package called NetMgr to rewrite the GIGO addresses so that
the FTN users would see a virtual address in their zone, but GIGO would receive
the netmails addressed to its Fidonet address.  Echomail was only gated using
Fidonet addresses to/from newsgroups and mailing lists.

 ml> to it and then had to find the GIGOTCP package to get tools to do on
 ml> TCP/IP what UUCP had been doing on dialup... granted, our internet was
 ml> now dialup but we had TCP/IP and could run servers and do email stuffs
 ml> easier...

I had to do the same when my ISP stopped providing UUCP, and I had to switch
providers, but was able to listen on SMTP over dialup.  Luckily by then, I was
running OS/2, so the TCP/IP tools were viable for me.  I also found it possible
to use an old version of MDaemon under Windows NT4 as a SMTP receiver.  Its
message storage format was largely compatible with GIGO, and only required
minor massaging to make it work.  I did release a set of tools to make this
possible.  I suspect the only copies in existence are on my old BBS backups. 
The copy I had on the web was lost with a change of ISP. :(


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