Discussion echo for InterMail and InterEcho. (FTN software)
Dale,
Discussion echo for InterMail and InterEcho. (FTN software)
I have fond memories using InterMail when I was on dial-up...and
even registered my copy. :)
Daryl
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What was InterMail? :-P
What was InterMail? :-P
What was InterMail? :-P
It was a frontend deal for dial-up BBS's, similar to FrontDoor,
but I liked InterMail's features better.
Re: Re: IMECHO RULES
By: Daryl Stout to Dale Barnes on Fri Jun 26 2020 11:29 am
Dale,
Discussion echo for InterMail and InterEcho. (FTNsoftware)
I have fond memories using InterMail when I was on dial-up...and
even registered my copy. :)
What was InterMail? :-P
Dale,
Discussion echo for InterMail and InterEcho. (FTN software)
I have fond memories using InterMail when I was on dial-
up...and
even registered my copy. :)
Daryl
What was InterMail? :-P
What was InterMail? :-P
today, it would be called "a fork of frontdoor" since they
both originate from the same source code...
It was a frontend deal for dial-up BBS's, similar to FrontDoor,
but I liked InterMail's features better.
Yeah, I do, too. Much easier to set up. I just with there
were a
WINServer-spectific version of it an InterEcho to replace
Platinum Xpress :)
Dale Barnes wrote to Daryl Stout <=-
I have fond memories using InterMail when I was on dial-
up...and even registered my copy. :)
Yep, still works. 2.6x is coming along. Had to dust off
everything and remember how it worked. Think I saw your name in
the registration database as well. :)
Still building out the new 3.x version. Could be no one ever
uses it again but I will.
Yep, still works. 2.6x is coming along. Had to dust off everything
and remember how it worked. Think I saw your name in the registration database as well. :)
Still building out the new 3.x version. Could be no one ever uses it again but I will. Heck even working to bring TPBoard BBS back to life here. LOL
I have fond memories using InterMail when I was on dial-
up...and even registered my copy. :)
Yep, still works. 2.6x is coming along. Had to dust off
everything and remember how it worked. Think I saw your name in
the registration database as well. :)
My name's in that database too, circa 1993/94... :-)
Still building out the new 3.x version. Could be no one ever
uses it again but I will.
I would be very interested in any new version. Didn't
realize you
were still working on it. Outstanding! Please keep us
posted!
Dale Barnes wrote to Dan Clough <=-
Still building out the new 3.x version. Could be no one ever
uses it again but I will.
I would be very interested in any new version. Didn't realize you
were still working on it. Outstanding! Please keep us posted!
Just started on the 3.x a while back. Have a crude system
working but it requires a bit of tlc to make everything work and
still parts of it are tied to the old dos system. Yep, when
cleaning out everything I have been caring around the country,
came across the old drives that had all the old code for many
systems I wrote, purchased or obtained (thought it was lost) and
started playing with it again. I stepped away from programming
for many years and lost a bit of knowledge.
Yep moving forward with updating the old system and cleaning it
up as I go. Will post releases on www.intermail.net which is up
but pretty much nothing there to see at this time. This echo
will have updates but don't hold your breath, my time coding
depends on my much my job requires of my time. :(
The 2.6x system will not have any keys, does not make sense to
hold on to that as this is a hobby and I am just having fun.
Dale,
Yep, still works. 2.6x is coming along. Had to dust off everything
and remember how it worked. Think I saw your name in the registration
database as well. :)
I really liked it, especially with the selection of
colors.
Still building out the new 3.x version. Could be no one ever uses it
again but I will. Heck even working to bring TPBoard BBS back to life
here. LOL
The dial-up line I have is VoIP and not analog, off of a
deal that
I have with T-Mobile. AT&T had been converting all of their
analog
lines to VoIP, and they also "screwed my Mom over" before
her death,
with their poor customer support. They got her to switch to
DSL and
the VoIP line, but every time there was a power outage or a
nearby
lightning strike, the DSL modem got fried. As a result, she
had no
internet, and worse, no phone or 911 service.
So, when I called on the cellphone, I demanded to talk to
a
supervisor. They hung up on me, and I blew I gasket. I was
livid,
and when I redialed and got back in, I was told "this call
may be
monitored or recorded for quality and training purposes". I
said
"It damn well better be, for the $h!+ I just went
through!!". My
Mom was sitting there, and I apologized to her afterwards,
but
said "I can't blame you"....she heard it too.
They were going to make a 90 year old woman WAIT over a
week
to get a new DSL modem. Well, they said they'd have a tech
out
in the morning. When I told him what had happened, he
exploded.
He said "There was no excuse for that!!". He gave us his
personal
card and private number, adding "if the DSL modem dies
again, call
me. Either myself, or one of my team will be out within 24
hours".
He added "this customer mistreatment is all too common". I
was
praying blessings on him and his family.
But, when I had to put my Mom in a nursing home in late
2018,
I called them, and told them to CANCEL
EVERYTHING...cellphone,
DSL, landline, etc. -- and said "I would NEVER be back".
And,
it was if the representative didn't care. Of course, my
chewing
out of them didn't help my personality <G>, but I wouldn't
want
to go back.
Unfortunately, with the VoIP lines, the old dial-up BBS
and
fax calls don't work, even with the US Robotics 56K V.92
fax
modems. If they would, I could reactivate dial-up on the
BBS.
With having the internet up all the time (except for
whenthunderstorms are in the area, power outages from the
high
electric use (I hope to install a generator this fall), or
the internet goes out), I run Internet Rex in daemon mode
for FTN mail runs. Synchronet uses the SEXPOTS add-on for
the dial-up lines to get into the telnet BBS, but as noted,
I don't think the VoIP lines would work. Otherwise, I'd
love
to have InterMail online again for dial-up calls.
Sorry to hear about what you and your mom had to go thru. Things have really changed in the last 40 years.
On the VOIP, I have *kinda* been able to get Intermail to work with
VOIP using MagicJack. I had to turn down the speed quite a bit but I
have been able to send msgs to both my uplinks the last year with about
a 70% rate of working. I am sure I could tweak it a bit more but with
so few phone lines and folks to test with, did not make much sense to
keep playing with it. I have so much other code to review and clean
up.
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