From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!85.12.16.68.MISMATCH!peer01.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:50:39 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Successor Language Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:50:40 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <1b03e4ff-daf1-4c13-84ef-13aec1ba96e9@googlegroups.com> <3b1c4f80-cb7c-44f7-a91c-c24c300006f4@googlegroups.com> <82ea6f37-6639-4e9a-9d22-bfa27a27f12f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.255.154.65 X-Trace: sv3-QLveT9cGDv/soRZrf75r/XwwtI8hGMMQJLxYQTQrUYPMDBp/oi/Ie1umM85LNcHwSai7kdgIQ+8Lrfw!/2L4Jv6JPCfJhYOgElghwUGk0cq0QhaSD3orAXXzF5J+fkF7k4v+2ZPAi986+GDrg19Yt+l+yxho!ypOWhcRPfLR7YCAu7HeNGCBnd+4= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3172 X-Received-Bytes: 3384 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4216955146 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53130 Date: 2018-06-15T16:50:40-04:00 List-Id: On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:03:59 -0700 (PDT), Lucretia declaimed the following: > >If BG had anytrhing to do with it, then QuickBASIC would've been too unstable to do anything with. I used AmigaBASIC bitd and it crashed a lot, that was written by BG apparently. > It was still better than the MetaComCo ABC (or ABasiC or some such) that came with first generation AmigaOS. Once ARexx was released, it became my goto for quick&dirty programs (especially with the add-on library that gave support for standard requesters and dialogs). Then came Irmen's port of Python... and within a week I'd written an out-going mail daemon that WORKED for my needs. At that time, mail clients were ports from UNIX (AmigaELM?) and worked with local mailbox files that had to be populated by a separate POP client program, and relied upon external scripts to spool outgoing mail for SMTP program to send... Well, the first such SMTP I tried would attempt direct connection to each addressee (not even checking MX records for routing, obviously this was before the practice of having to relay via one's ISP started) -- and would block the entire pending queue if one message could not be sent. The second program I tried did use ISP relay mode, but it did not parse CC and BCC headers so only addresses found in the TO header would receive the mail. My Python daemon correctly extracted TO, CC, and BCC (and then removed BCC from the message itself) and relayed to the ISP (I used a short ARexx script for the mail client submission/queue handler). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/