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Press Release Mar. 5, 93
PCB-UUCP v1.0 NOW SHIPPING!
Merlin Systems is proud to introduce its newest software product,
PCB-UUCP. Finally, a full-featured PCBoard-UUCP gateway has been
created!
PCB-UUCP allows PCBoard BBS software to exchange mail with
UUCP / RFC822 / RFC1036 based systems. Thus allowing PCBoard users
access to mail from the Internet and USENET.
Some of its more outstanding features are:
private e-mail
- mail waiting flag set (optional)
- attached files/automatic uudecode/uuencode (optional)
- seamless replies (You dont have to enter a To: line in the text
of your reply!)
- routing of private mail to and from other systems
- allows the sysop to add 'services' for PCB-UUCP to automatically
handle incoming messages addressed to certain users
- Aliases
newsgroups
- automatically uncompresses & unbatches
- batches & compresses outgoing newsgroups (optionally)
- moderated newsgroups
- read-only newsgroups
- distribution of newsgroups to other systems (even your own
newsgroups)
- 'Areafix' function for allowing your USENET neighbours to
add/delete newsgroups without your assistance
- Archiving of newsgroup messages and/or attached files.
Automatically creates an entry in your PCBoard DIR file listings.
Bitnet mailing lists
- optional hosting of a mailing list
- automatic LISTSERV function (for people subscribing to your
mailing lists)
PCB-UUCP includes install and setup programs that are mouseable and
contains online context-sensitive help. They were designed to be
'goof-proof'. There are also many free third party utilities, report
generators, and even a uuPCB conversion program that will set your
system up in a matter of minutes.
Accompaning this file, there should be ANSI screen shots of the Setup
program entitled SETUP1.ANS, SETUP2.ANS, and SETUP3.ANS.
Comparison Guide
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PCB-UUCP (v1.0)
Newsgroups:
Compressed & Batched yes
Moderated yes
Read-Only yes
Start your own yes
Maximum Number of Batched Messages unlimited
Distribute to Other Systems yes
JUNK Conference yes
Compress & Batch Outgoing Articles yes
'AreaFix' feature(1) yes
Cooperate with Other Gateways(2) yes
Superior Archiving(3) yes
Mailing Lists:
Supported yes
Start your own yes
Moderated yes
Read-Only yes
LISTSERV feature(4) yes
Private E-Mail:
Optional Setting of Mail-Waiting Flag yes
File Attachments yes
Blocking of Messages Addressed to yes
LISTSERV or any other names(5)
Seamless Replies(6) yes
Automatic 'Services'(7) yes
Aliases yes
Setup:
Conferences setup.exe
Configuration File setup.exe
Mouseable yes
Text Windows yes
On-Line Help yes
Allow editing of all PCBoard CNAMES Data yes
Install:
Supplied yes
Mouseable yes
Text Windows yes
On-Line Help yes
Logging:
Incoming Internet Date,Time,
Conf#,Msg#,To,From
Outgoing Internet Date,Time,
Conf#,Msg#,To,From
Incoming USENET Date,Time,
Conf#,Msg#,To,From
Outgoing USENET Date,Time,
Conf#,Msg#,To,From
Errors Date,Time,Error
Junk Date,Time,Newsgroup
Routing Date, Time,Host,To
Miscellaneous:
Route mail/newsgroups to neighbour hosts yes
Number of Options per Conference(8) 26
PCBoard User Name Changed According to yes
the RFC1137 Standard
LISTSERV GET, LIST & HELP commands supported(9) yes
Developed entirely in C yes
Super fast perfomance yes
@SEND command line parameter(10) yes
Uses Waffle or FSUUCP's Transport Agents(11) yes
1 AreaFix is a FidoNet term that is used here to mean the
same thing. Basically, one of your neighbour systems can
drop/add newsgroups, distributed to them by you,
automatically without human intervention. PCB-UUCP
features two such programs. One is an interative online
PCBoard door, and the other can run off of PCB-UUCP as a
mail-agent.
2 By optionally setting an incoming messages Echo Flag, it
is possible to cross-post messages from one network into
another. (ie. USENET <-> FidoNet/QWK/Pcrelay)
3 With PCB-UUCP you can automatically archive incoming
articles based on many criteria and optionally compress
that archive. PCB-UUCP will even allow you to build a
list of periodic postings to archive.
4 The LISTSERV feature enables a system to receive messages
addressed to listserv (a standard among Mailing Lists).
The feature will add/drop users from Mailing Lists that
are sourced locally.
5 This is nessecary to block users from subscribing to
mailling lists that can increase a systems Internet mail
volume dramatically.
6 With uuPCB, the user must enter the destination person's
address in his/her reply. PCB-UUCP handles the original
message's source address and message ID automatically for
replies.
7 'Services' are configurable userids that will
automatically trigger a sysop-configurable program. This
program may then return a message with the appropriate
information.
This allows PCB-UUCP to be expanded infinitely. For
example the service 'SQLQUERY', might be used to call a
program that performs a query on a database based on the
text of the message and returns the requested information.
8 Not including options found in PCBoard.
9 Anyone on the internet can send an email to LISTSERV at
your systems and ask for a list of files from one
conference. They can also ask for that file to be
attached to a return message. This is totaly optional and
configurable.
10 The @SEND command allows a sysop to send an email or
article from the command line. The message being sent is
contained in an ASCII text file.
11 Transport Agents (TA) are programs that actually move the
mail. Waffle's UUCICO is freeware, FSUUCP's UUCICO is
shareware, and both are a UUCP TA.
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For more information, please contact us at:
Merlin Systems, Inc.
PO Box 3043, Station C
Ottawa, Ontario
K1Y 4J3 Canada
613-236-1138
613-236-1481 (Fax & BBS)
Internet: info@merlin-systems.on.ca
UUCP: uunet!mersys!info
MHS: info @ merlin [cserve]
FidoNet: Info 1:163/509