Subj : JAM versus Squish?
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sat Nov 14 2015 06:48 pm

  Re: JAM versus Squish?
  By: Kurt Weiske to Rob Swindell on Sat Nov 14 2015 09:25 am

 >   Re: JAM versus Squish?
 >   By: Rob Swindell to Kurt Weiske on Fri Nov 13 2015 06:41 pm
 >
 >  RS> The Synchronet Message Base (SMB) is no more proprietary than JAM or
 >  RS> Squish.
 >
 > Sorry, I misspoke - not sure what word I meant, but I think you got my
 > drift; there aren't as many third party utilities out there for SMB compared
 > to JAM. I never used JAM back "in the day", not sure of the
 > benefits/disadvantages of each.

No problem. I considered both JAM and Squish message base formats for
Synchronet (version 2), but ultimately decided that something better was
needed. For most sysops, any of the mentioned formats should be fine.

                                            digital man

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