Message Area
Casually read the BBS message area using an easy to use interface. Messages are categorized exactly like they are on the BBS. You may post new messages or reply to existing messages!

You are not logged in. Login here for full access privileges.

Previous Message | Next Message | Back to BBS Software Chatter  <--  <--- Return to Home Page
   Networked Database  BBS Software Chatter   [364 / 864] RSS
 From   To   Subject   Date/Time 
Message   Rob Swindell    Robert Wolfe   Re: Offline Readers   September 18, 2017
 7:47 PM *  

  Re: Re: Offline Readers
  By: Robert Wolfe to MATTHEW MUNSON on Mon Sep 18 2017 08:10 pm

 > -=> MATTHEW MUNSON wrote to Robert Wolfe <=-
 >
 >  RW> You need to contact William McBrine as he is the developer.  I just
 >  RW> compiled his code.
 >
 >  MM> is he still around?
 >
 > I am sure he is.

I sent William this email in July of 2011 and never received a response:

------8<------

William,

Hi, I'm the author of Synchronet BBS software, one of the few remaining
supported and developed BBS software packages and ever fewer that have internal
QWK support.

Anyway, I was working on the QWKE support in Synchronet (the QWKE support was
very incomplete to date) and was using Multimail (the current source snapshot
of 0.50 from sourceforge) and have been trying to complete the QWKE support in
Multimail (e.g. supporting "To" fields > 25 chars) and have been considering
adding support for Synchronet QWK HEADERS.DAT file (which makes all the QWKE
"standard" and other kludge lines unnecessary). I was curious if you are still
working on Multimail, excepting patches, want to discuss what I've found so far
with QWKE support, etc.?

This email address will work fine for correspondence, but I'm also often in
#synchronet at irc.synchro.net (as digitalman) if you're so inclined.

Thanks for supporting BBSes and QWK!

-Rob
-----8<------

I then sent a follow-up email to teh SourceForge mailing list for MultiMail and
received this reply from Jim Hanoian:

-----8<------

Sorry.... I haven't done anything with offline mail readers for several years.
I don't know if William McBrine is even still alive.


Jim
-----8<------

So if William is around, I'd be happy to work with him on fixing and enhancing
multimail. :-)

                                            digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #23:
FSP = FidoNet Standards Proposal
Norco, CA WX: 67.3°F, 78.0% humidity, 3 mph N wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs
--- SBBSecho 3.01-Win32
 * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
  Show ANSI Codes | Hide BBCodes | Show Color Codes | Hide Encoding | Hide HTML Tags | Show Routing
Previous Message | Next Message | Back to BBS Software Chatter  <--  <--- Return to Home Page

VADV-PHP
Execution Time: 0.0967 seconds

If you experience any problems with this website or need help, contact the webmaster.
VADV-PHP Copyright © 2002-2024 Steve Winn, Aspect Technologies. All Rights Reserved.
Virtual Advanced Copyright © 1995-1997 Roland De Graaf.
v2.0.140505

Warning: Unknown: open(c:\Sessions\sess_qvecil8h8v9ad43ll5dtcbqd16, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (c:\Sessions) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: session_start(): open(c:\Sessions\sess_qvecil8h8v9ad43ll5dtcbqd16, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in D:\wc5\http\public\VADV\include\common.inc.php on line 45 PHP Warning: Unknown: open(c:\Sessions\sess_qvecil8h8v9ad43ll5dtcbqd16, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (c:\Sessions) in Unknown on line 0