Hello Tony!   
      
   14 Jan 18 17:43, you wrote to me:   
      
    TL> Bink worked for me, and when I had my point running GIGO (the point   
    TL> was spun off the original BBS), Bink's bidirectional transfer protocol   
    TL> saved a lot of time, with a lot of mail travelling in both directions,   
      
   FD had a nice setup screen, status screen, and there was more it to a the time,   
    which I don't recall all the details. Alot of it had to do with actual   
   operation of the queue(s) etc, but that is a rough recolection at best.   
      
    TL> especially in the earlier days, when I was running 2400 bps.  Was   
    TL> interesting seeing bot RxD and Txd lights on continuously. :)   
      
   Well I had what Bell of PA at that time called Metro Service, basically I could   
    call most of the 412 area code prior to the NPA split, for $35-40/month. Slurp   
    as much as I needed.   
      
   The volume increased enough that having a dedicated line for it all was better   
   than trying to get Fido, FAX, uucp, and voice to all share. So I moved it to   
   the office and I had phone lines to spare for it all. I just then ran a point   
   at home to get stuff at night.   
      
      
    TL> I was a big fan of GIGO at the time. :)   
      
   I got hooked into the beta testing of it early on, and it was like FD it worked   
    better than what was the big work horse of this at the time, I think UFGATE??    
    GIGO was just awesome. I had to be doing this on something for awhile before   
   GIGO came along..hmmm.. I had a uucp account with Telerama for a long time.   
   Matter of fact I think I was like one of the last few they were allowing to   
   keep the damn things! I 'd love to see the code of this revived for Linux.  It   
   won't be me as a I don't touch C.   
      
    TL> Yeah, all are dead, as are the [amateur|Part 97] packet radio to   
    TL> FTN   
    TL> gating   
    TL> systems   
    TL> that were around in the 90s. :(   
      
   Really??  None of those survived? Hmm I would have thought some of that stuff   
   in the packet world of Amateur radio would continue on. I never got into that   
   as at that time you still needed 5WPM CW, and my brain just didn't then and   
   doesn't know work for CW. I moved on to build much bigger radios sytems in   
   numerous states.   
      
    TL>  Sadly, GIGO is abandonware.  Someone   
    TL> would have to rewrite a clone from the ground up. :(   
      
   I think source was released, but then the sites that had it disappeared and   
   they who wrote seems to be rather against discussing any part of GIGO, as the   
   site I found mentioned pretty much "Don't boterh me about GIGO!" So some one   
   pissed in his cheerios or something. I think this happened after I had to move   
   for work.   
      
   Thinks changed for me about 2000 or so when I had to move for radio work   
   outside PA. I gave up my uucp etc. setup. I did resetup that box to do some   
   stuff via Hamster for awhile. Then I pulled the plug on everything non Linux,   
   for good.   
      
   I'd love to see a phoneix of Gigo on Linux, and I'd test it out, I think Fido,   
   FTN/UseNet/Email gating is till a useful thing. Even if the little   
   whippersnappers don't see the big pixture!   
      
   My lab notes for testing have things like FD, BGFAX under DOSBox on the list, I   
    just have so many things going on right now the list never seems to shrink!   
      
   Rick   
      
      
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