Hans-Peter Zorn wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 08:35:44AM +0100, Krause, Uwe wrote:
> >
> > > The LinKt and TNT are good terminal programs, but there isn't
> > > a good terminal program with message management (Unproto
> > > protocol , compressed
> > > mail transfer etc) Like TPK ,TSTHOST,(MSDOS) or WINPACK (WIN).
> > >
> >
> > run TNT together with dpbox and you will find all you expect !
> > (unproto protocol , compressed mail transfer etc)
>
>
>
> One problem is the lack of feedback. Here in Germany those unproto
> lists are near to unknown. None of my friends ever used Winpack, I
> believe we don�t have a single FBB Mailbox anymore. So, like I wrote
> in some weeks ago, we would really like to know whats special about
> winpack. It seems to be quite popular in GB and other countries. I
> can�t check it myself, because I don�t have windows installed.
Well, what's special about winpack, is that it can make many nice/not
nice sounds depending on different events. It can "speak" tha call sign
connecting to it and the Win part seems to be very special(at least in
Sweden).
Since you don't have an FBB, how do you manage your mail system in
Germany ?
Do you use *nos or how does it work ??
Here in Sweden our Mailnetwork consists of a number of FBB BBS:es that
handle the main mail routing. All users are running client's like
winpack, TPK, TST-Host or similar to retrieve the mail they find
interesting including personal mail. These "strange" unproto lists, are
very effective in letting the users know what mail is available at the
local BBS. Every BBS sends the unproto on very port, and the clients
(TPK, TST-Host, WinPack etc) recieve them and generate a list of
available messages. Then, the single user just has to read through the
subjects of all the mail and mark the ones he wants. It's quite a bit
like Newsgroups on the internet. There one also just downloads the
message subjects and when one decides to read message X you downlod it.
I looked a bit on your page, and found a protocol called didadit that
according to that page is "widely" used. I've never heard about it and I
don't know one peice of software that supports it. Guess there are some
great differences between countries :-/
>
> Our current plan is to cooperate with Radek and use parts of
> LinPac (axmail-utils and ulistd) for the LinKT Mailer.
Those packages, have the ability to decode FBB's unproto headers and one
can tell it to download mail to different areas. That would be a good
thing to incorporate into LinKT and/or the mailer.
>
> Among the LinKT users in Germany there is much more interest in having
> a decent convers client. Jochen is getting many requests for that, but
> none for this strange unproto thing.
>
Convers client's are not used that much in Sweden (At least not the
south of Sweden). To be honest, most packetradiotraffic here is mail. On
the other hand, we're starting up an APRS network here. That would be
something to include into LinKT. A graphical viewer that reads and
decodes APRS packets retrieved via the AX25 kernel socket.
73's de SM7XAB Jocke!
