Subj : SBBS/W32 Kermit SABOTAGE
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : MICHEL SAMSON
Date : Tue Nov 16 2004 08:48 am

Hi Mike,

     About "SBBS/W32 Kermit SABOTAGE" of November 15:

MS> ...you and your guru remain consistently silent relatively to the
MS> VERY WEAK INTERFACE between `SynchroNet' and `MS-Kermit'...
SH> ...breaking "kermit" because the interface is somehow "weak".    [?]
MS} Wrong, he's been warned of the consequences of rejecting my .INI on
MS} 1st sight and hence his decision made him responsible for disabling
MS} some of the `Kermit' features - SysOps & BBSers *DID* complain...  
MS> I also informed him that hanged sessions fail to be detected (the
MS> "CARRIER" signal may be stuck), that message-pointer UpDating may be
MS> wrong and/or that users are at risk to be kept out of an `SBBS'
MS> system for a day.  This matter of a weak external protocol-driver
MS> interface only makes things worst as he won't even try to address it
MS> but `Kermit' was made crippled because of "fluff" he has rejected...
MP> If goofing up the setup could result in these things, they sound
MP> like good reasons not to risk setting up Kermit at all.

     That's why i refer to Rob Swindell's `Kermit.INI' as SABOTAGE!  The
`MS-Kermit.EXE' external file-transfer protocol-driver isn't involved, a
"NO CARRIER" condition would make it react (*IF* only one occured) and i
also tried to manage with Error Trapping relative to it but Rob rejected
my contribution...  It's his task to ensure that his SoftWare remains in
control, `SBBS' is responsible for supporting the ~FOSSIL~ interface and
it runs the drivers, not the opposite, after all!  I'd most probably get
the same results reproduced using ANY OTHER EXTERNAL PROTOCOL-DRIVER, do
you see the larger picture now?  This `SBBS' issue is out of my hands...

                                                           Salutations,

                                                           Michel Samson
                                                           a/s Bicephale


.... Rob's SBBS/Kermit:  spend spare-time just to find out why it stalls!
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