Subj : Re: BBS Discussion
To   : metalhead
From : wkitty42
Date : Fri Jun 09 2017 17:45:06

On 05/06/17, metalhead said the following...
 
 me>  PG> much.. ;) Two weeks ago, I switched my complete ftn-setup from Mystic
 me>  PG> BinkD+Husky+GoldEd - that's my kick! ;)
 me> 
 me> Sorry, I don't have a clue about what that means. Bink sounds like an
 me> ancient front end mailer, but I don't know about these terms!

actually, binkd is pretty new... you are thinking of the old binkleyterm
mailer which is from the frontdoor days... binkd is similar to binkleyterm in
that it uses a text config file and the BSO outbound directory format...

aside from that, binkd is just another dumb mailer... dumb as in not 
intelligent like frontdoor with its dynamic routing and packing of
netmails... all that has to be done by your mail tosser and that's only done
once whereas frontdoor does it all the time and even goes so far as to unpack
already packed netmail to pack it for sending to a different system to follow
another routing path if necessary...

BSO stands for "binkley style outbound" and it basically a simple
form of naming directories and files put into those directories...

the last major thing about binkd is that it brings a new TCP/IP networking
oriented protocol to the table... old POTS mailers may be shimmed to be able
to handle telnet connections but that's generally it... binkd has its own
protocol and rides beside the BBS instead of in front of it...

hth ;)

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