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Skriven 2014-09-25 20:26:04 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.71)
  Kommentar till text 18670 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to mark lewis:

 ml>> and a tosser and some sort of message base reader...

 MvdV>> A tosser is not needed. One needs a tosser to participate in
 MvdV>> echomail, but that is not a requirement for obtaining a node
 MvdV>> number.

 ml> how does a BSO/FLO mailer get netmail in/out of PKT files without a
 ml> tosser? ;)

 MvdV> With a netmail router. An example is CFroute.

ah! i had forgotten about that one... i knew that there had to have been
something but the neurons just weren't sparking like they should have been :/

 MvdV> Also there are AMA mailers. Frontdoor, Intermail, Irex...

true but they do not operate using BSO formats which was the crux of my
point... especially in light of so many folks using only the internet for FTN
traffic transportation and using binkd for such transport...

 ml> but, yes, you are correct to a point... there are a few all-in-one
 ml> packages that have pretty much everything necessary... d'bridge is an
 ml> all-in-one single participant oriented package... mystic is an
 ml> all-in-one bbs package... there are others of similar nature as well
 ml> as the parts and pieces one can get to build their own :)

 MvdV>> I don't think participating in Fidonet is any fun, but it is
 MvdV>> possible.

 MvdV> Hmmm, that didn't come out the way I meant.

i knew what you meant in this case ;)

 MvdV> I don't think participating in Fidonet without echomail is any
 MvdV> fun, but it is possible.

 ml> agreed... nothing but netmail would be a very boring fidonet... but
 ml> then there wouldn't be so many arguments going on and on and on for
 ml> decades either ;)

 MvdV> Yet, netmail only is how it started. Echomail was a later add-on.

yup :)

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