Subj : Compression question
To   : Bo Simonsen
From : Bob Jones
Date : Fri Jul 11 2003 06:03 pm

 BS> What does Confmail has to do with Squish (something i might have missed).

CONFMAIL is one of the early mail mashers.  I don't think it was part of the 
original fido and fidonet software (actual code by Tom Jennins), but it was one 
of the early available mail tosssers, and used *.msg only.  Then OMM came along 
as part of Opus.  And then Squish came along with Maximus.  Squish claimed at 
the time to use the same route.cfg file that CONFMAIL (or was it also OMMM) 
used.  I found that wasn't 100% true.....   

[Yes, at one time I *did* have fido and fidonet software loaded and attempted 
to run on an old HeathKit H-100 -- Under Z-DOS (MS-DOS) version 1 or 2, using 
the FOSSIL for the old H-100.  I ended up using a different BBS package at that 
time.  This was back when the nodelist was one dimentional and allowed a 
maximum of about 255 entries.  My hard disk crashed before I could investigate 
further -- and in the mean time, Fidonet had shut down adding nodes so that 
they could introduce the two (or was it three) d nodelist format -- which is 
when the 255 node limit was removed....  When I finally got back to hardware 
that I could use Fidonet with (with appropriate resources) fidonet was up to 
three dimentional nodelists, and I found that my area already had a local 
net.....  The first fidonet node I had (local) access to (#56, if I remember 
the number right -- run out of the local HeathKit store) also went down about 
the time fidonet went from 1-D to 2-D.]

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41

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 * Origin: Top Hat 2 BBS (1:343/41)

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