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- From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: %%$$@@ BBS Mail Doors !! ** &&^^^
- Message-ID: <paulk.0y4c@terapin.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 08:03:12 PST
- Organization: BBS
- Lines: 28
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- One thing many Amiga based BBS systems seem to lack is a means of packing mail
- for offline reading in formats such as QWK or Silver Xpress, and there are
- certainly no Amiga BBSes with MegaMail or Blue Wave mail packers. I am
- considering writing a QWK / Blue Wave mail door for some BBS(es), having just
- written an offline reader for these formats (Q-Blue), and what I'm wondering is
- ............................
-
- WHICH bbs software would be the best choice to write a door for? So can
- anybody tell me:
-
- - which wares, if any, already have QWK mail packing ability (DLG?)
-
- - which ones are most popular today
-
- - which ones are fastest growing and might be most popular in the future
-
- - whether anybody else is working on something of the sort ...
-
- At the moment I'm kinda leaning toward XenoLink as a starting point, but that's
- very preliminary. My main question about XenoLink is, how many such BBSes are
- out there, and how many of them have heavy enough traffic to justify a mail
- door? Is it selling well?
-
- On the other hand, if I start with C-Net, I might be able to read these
- newsgroups offline with it. Trouble being that C-Net's message base structure,
- as far as I can tell from the specimen I'm using right now, makes a very poor
- fit to the QWK and Blue Wave formats, which expect message bases to be a pretty
- much linear sequence of messages each addressed to some particular person.
-