Subj : SMB style msg areas?
To   : David Gonzalez
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Fri Feb 16 2001 03:16 pm

Hi! David,

On 15 Feb 01 13:15, David Gonzalez wrote to Paul Quinn:

 SQ>>> What is an SMB style message area?
 PQ>> Blast, I can't wait any longer.  What's this SMB??
 DG> SMB is the standard that Synchronet BBS uses if you wanna learn more 
 DG> about it just visist http://www.syncghro.net/docs

Oh, OK.  No thanks; no BBS here any more.

 PQ>> If it's "Squish", then no hassles.  I'm doing squish areas with
 PQ>> FastEcho.  Need help; just ask.  :-)
 DG> Nope is no squish, and about that would you tell me what's better to 
 DG> use Squish *MSG, Hudson or JAM?, i'm suing JAM and i've always liked 
 DG> that but if you think other is better just tell me about it :)

I used JAM for about 4 years and don't recall having any great problems with 
it.  There were a few minor problems, but nothing that couldn't be fixed (a 
whole lot easier than, say, with Hudson).  I'd still be using JAM now except 
the editor I use can't do JAM; only Squish, *.MSG, QuickBBS, or Hudson.  That's 
no great hassle either as this editor reads my FastEcho config file directly 
for area definitions.

There's probably very little difference, performance-wise, between JAM and 
Squish in your average BBS setup, though technically JAM is supposed to be more 
advanced/efficient.  With JAM you just run the risk of one out of the four 
files that make up an echo area going "bad" (due to a disk error, perhaps), as 
against the chance of one out of three files that make up a Squish echo area 
going "bad".

 PQ>> Cheers,
 DG> What does cheers mean?.
 DG> Best Regards David!
     ^^^^ ^^^^^^^
In a word, it is this! ...and, more...goodbye...till we meet again, etc.  :-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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