08 Jun 16 16:03, you wrote to me:

 AP> Any chance you can make the sofware for UUCP and SMTP available for
 AP> FREQ? Or FTP.  And does Bruce still answer his e-mail?

i had a look after i had written my previous message... GIGO and friends are
OS/2 but the sources for at least GIGO are available and may be portable to
winwhatever... i don't know... there are others available but i do not know
them... pcmike (aka mike ehlert at pcmicro) might have some ideas, though...

 AP> Thank you millions... not so much for the software advice but for
 AP> getting the old memory going again.

you are welcome for both 

 AP> Now is there a form of Killfile for the JAM message base to nuke some
 AP> of the newsgroup spam.

no, it is best to do that before the messages are posted to the JAM base...

1. tool downloads news and filters the posts by its killfile
2. filtered .bag files are processed by conversion software to PKTs
3. your normal FTN tosser tosses the filtered converted messages to whatever
message base format your system uses



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