Hi Benny,   
    In a message dated 17 May 03 you wrote to Neil Williams :   
      
    NW>> BinkP I currently only use to call out with; I use Bink4D from Aminet    
    NW>> and (since the w*n*er didn't include the GPL source)   
      
    BP> don't use it !   
      
   It works, at least for polling. If I didn't use I'd be unable to get Fido or   
   R50 Fido mail.   
      
    BP> why not make it into your own c code in zeus ?   
      
   I've always wanted to implement a BinkP mailer; I have a good code in ZMailer   
   that I can use but I've never really got around to it (it'd be a *lot* of   
   work) and ...   
      
    BP> sometimes i hate gpl licensenses :/   
      
   I can't use the BinkD source for this reason.   
      
   Free software is nice, but it's killed proper commercial development (only the   
   big players can really make any money now: FSF has made Microsoft powerful.   
   Irony). GPL makes this worse by not allowing even the integration of GPL code   
   into larger packages. GPL is viral.   
      
    BP> i have alot of alias, check your logs :)   
      
   Yes, you crash GoldFreq :)   
      
   I wish I'd never wasted money on that rubbish (back in '96 I think I   
   registered it). It has absolutely the best featurebase of any freq server,   
   outside of maybe some of the commercial MSDOS stuff, but it's shockingly buggy   
   and the author has done a runner and the source has gone with him. I've never   
   had it do more than a few freqs at a time before crashing; your freq was the   
   first it's seen in nearly two years, so I suppose it was inevitable it fecked   
   up.   
      
    BP> what about zeus ?   
      
   I still work on it, never stopped. The latest thing I've done is integrate a   
   mailing list server (email/majordomo style) into the email subsystem. Works   
   perfectly too.   
      
    NW>> I plan to phase out modem access to my BBS; keep it on for   
    BP> most old users will hate you for this, but i have taken the same route   
      
   The modem line is slow, hardly used anyway and a pain (in my case it shares   
   the line with voice calls). I'm glad to see the back of it.   
      
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