Subj : Re: *.MSG usage...
To : Digital Man
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Tue Nov 07 2017 06:25 am
-=> Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
DM> Re: *.MSG usage...
DM> By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Thu May 05 2016 07:49 pm
> Hiya DM...
>
> A few days ago you spoke of removing ARCMail from sbbsecho. Will this
> removal affect the conversion of *.MSG/Attach at all?
DM> I was not proposing the removal of FTS-1 "stored message" (so-called
DM> .msg file) support.
> I, along with a few
> others use MakeNL and it creates *.MSG when sending updated segments up the
> ladder. Also, there is Frontdoor's FM editor I use when creating netmail
> and sending files as well. It's a little easier than looging into the bbs.
> sbbsecho converts them quite easily for BSO transmission.
DM> If that works today, it would continue to work. It's just the "BSO
DM> mode" would not longer be an option, it would be the *only* mode of
DM> operation supported. If you're already using BSO/FLO mode, and it
DM> sounds like you are, then there would be no change for you.
