Subj : Re: SR13
To   : Mark Lewis
From : Nick Andre
Date : Tue Jun 20 2017 02:00 pm

On 20 Jun 17  12:17:38, Mark Lewis said the following to Joe Delahaye:

ML> it supports the MSG message base format... in sbbsecho only but it is there
ML> and not really configurable other than maybe defining the directory to use.
ML> sbbsecho uses it to communicate with other non-mailer software, too...
ML> interbbs games have to use MSG format as they don't know BSO and can't make
ML> FTN PKTs... this is also how sbbsecho communicates with non-BSO mailers... 
ML> could probably also make it directly compatible with dB... problem is how m
ML> folks are still using a non-BSO mailer these days... DM did ask for some
ML> volunteers with non-BSO mailers to please test the new code but no one
ML> responded...

Many people in Fido and Othernets are using DB. I don't collect stats, but its
being used with all sorts of BBS software. Someone in this echo a few years 
ago wrote a comprehensive guide to D'Bridge on Linux with SBBS. I know it can 
work with it, just probably a lot of messing around with SBBSECHO.

I did reply to a SBBS developer, Stephen somebody, I forget the name...
sometime I believe it was 2 years ago about this. I was asked if I could
contribute or help with the code for SBBSECHO and perhaps integrate DB
directly. I was told a story about how the code was a mess, it was always 
something that seemed "tacked on" and was never really satisfactory.

I replied very politely and said I was not able to share the entire source 
code for DB but would be happy to contribute code snippets for packet
handling, Queue, mail sessions etc. Anything they needed out of DB I was 
prepared to share or discuss... but I'm not handing over the entire code.

Crickets chirping after that.

Nick

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