Subj : don't cry for me I have vi
To   : mark lewis
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Mon Mar 28 2005 05:18 pm

Hey Mark!

The only reason the test worked is because I only used the actual message 
output of pine (text) as input to the text->pkt filter and it added the needed 
header information to that text, called it a pkt and off it went.  I never 
really converted it at all.  However I am playing around with the idea with 
using my email account as a basis of all messaging, Fido included.  What 
potentially could happen is that any inbounds could be stripped of control 
codes and then things like "AREA:PERL", and whatever other useful and 
informative kludges, be converted and employed in the email header, and fired 
off through the appropriate agent, for example an appropriate smtp server.  
Then as that user, all I would have to do to be able to read it is fire up my 
email client, pine comes to mind, and read the message(s).  If the reply-to 
address is the bbs itelf then all replies could be converted to pkt format from 
the bbs's inbound mail, the replies from my user account, and fired off to the 
uplink without anyone upstream being the wiser for it.

It could work.  I am not convinced I want to though.  :-)

- Maurice


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