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[Roger Turk <73527.1356@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Bob,

Believe it or not, Backmail is still available on the web!

   <http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pub/pc/mail/>

and click on bkmail11.zip to download it.

A companion file, backmail.txt, is also available there that describes 
Backmail.  The .txt file indicates that Backmail is a product of Alethic 
Software, but I couldn't find any hits on that using Google.

You can send a modem command string to the modem to try to connect at the 
highest modem rate and work down until a good connection is made.  I think 
that if the command string is used, it will override anything that may be 
built in to the program.

Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona

Bob Dohse wrote:

. > Hi all,

. > Here's hoping for a successful and productive New Year for all ... and
. > for the development of Arachne GPL.

. > I ran across an old (c. 1989) DOS program called Backmail. It handles
. > peer-to-peer mail and file transfer between phone numbers - both single
. > or multiple numbers - at a periodic rate set by each individual user.
. > Backmail operates in a background mode based on parameters set in an
. > easy-to-modify config file.

. > Backmail is shareware, but I can't find the owner. The version I found (v
. > 1.1) could handle modem rates up to 9600, but most of the modems
. > supported are no longer available on the market. Obviously, it could be
. > configured to work at much faster rates, but I also couldn't find any
. > source code to modify. Too bad, because Backmail looks like it would be a
. > perfect application to use with Arachne. I suspect that the
. > authors/owners have long since given up hope that they will make any more
. > money from the program. Quite possibly, they might be willing to donate
. > the source code to a good (Arachne) cause.

. > Questions ... 

. > Does anybody have any experience with this old program? Would any of you
. > telecom gurus be interested in putting Backmail to the test? I have the
. > zip file if anybody is interested.

. > Bob ~

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