Subj : Re: MMTerm?
To   : William Mcbrine
From : Ed Williams
Date : Thu Mar 08 2001 03:09 am

WM> EW> I see that you're no longer developing MultiMail?

WM>Huh? No, that's not true. Where did you get that idea?

Terribly sorry, that's what I took from what's going on.  When your
web site mysteriously changed to the place here, BlueMail came in,
reporting to be a new qwk reader based on MultiMail and credited by
to you and a few others.

I've checked and apparently it's just someone taking up the GNU Open
licensing option, and making sure to credit everyone.  I mistook it as
a series of events indicating you'd given the reigns to someone else.

Again, Sorry.

WM>The latest release is 0.38, from last month; go to:

WM> http://multimail.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for the New address, I'll update it.

WM>Those aren't "today's PCI modems"; they're "today's crap Winmodems". Rip
WM>and replace, that's my advice. Seriously -- I don't mean to sound harsh,
WM>but those so-called modems deserve only death. No one should use them, for
WM>anything. They're a very bad design, inflicted on an unwitting public as a
WM>spurious cost-saving measure.

I agree wholeheartedly.  But it's terribly hard to get someone to fork
out an extra $50 for an external modem, even thought it's easier to
install, use, and operate.  Hell, today I'm lucky to find someone who
doesn't tell me "I can't use a regular modem, I have DSL!"

WM>Still, I'm surprised that the terminal programs you're trying don't work
WM>with them. I assume that they're actually DOS programs. Native Windows
WM>programs should work OK (to the extent that a Winmodem ever works OK).

I've not found any that support true ansi, particularly blinking text.
Which to me is a real pain in the butt since I'm trying to get people
back into the Ansi Art thing which I truly love.

Ed..

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