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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