Subj : Amiga!
To   : Benny Pedersen
From : Neil Williams
Date : Sat May 17 2003 22:52:54

Hi Benny,
 In a message dated 17 May 03 you wrote to Neil Williams :

 NW>> BinkP I currently only use to call out with; I use Bink4D from Aminet 
 NW>> and (since the w*n*er didn't include the GPL source)

 BP> don't use it !

It works, at least for polling. If I didn't use I'd be unable to get Fido or R50 Fido mail.

 BP> why not make it into your own c code in zeus ?

I've always wanted to implement a BinkP mailer; I have a good code in ZMailer that I can use but I've never really got around to it (it'd be a *lot* of work) and ...

 BP> sometimes i hate gpl licensenses :/

I can't use the BinkD source for this reason.

Free software is nice, but it's killed proper commercial development (only the big players can really make any money now: FSF has made Microsoft powerful. Irony). GPL makes this worse by not allowing even the integration of GPL code into larger packages. GPL is viral.

 BP> i have alot of alias, check your logs :)

Yes, you crash GoldFreq :)

I wish I'd never wasted money on that rubbish (back in '96 I think I registered it). It has absolutely the best featurebase of any freq server, outside of maybe some of the commercial MSDOS stuff, but it's shockingly buggy and the author has done a runner and the source has gone with him. I've never had it do more than a few freqs at a time before crashing; your freq was the first it's seen in nearly two years, so I suppose it was inevitable it fecked up.

 BP> what about zeus ?

I still work on it, never stopped. The latest thing I've done is integrate a mailing list server (email/majordomo style) into the email subsystem. Works perfectly too.

 NW>> I plan to phase out modem access to my BBS; keep it on for
 BP> most old users will hate you for this, but i have taken the same route

The modem line is slow, hardly used anyway and a pain (in my case it shares the line with voice calls). I'm glad to see the back of it.

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