[Info-vax] BITNET, was: Re: login information capture

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Hunter Goatley wrote 2014-02-24 22:40:
> My first 'net connection was via BITNET when I was at WKU. The first
> version of my VMS Freeware Archive was a mail-based file server running
> over BITNET (and gatewayed to the Internet). About a year after we got
> online via BITNET (over a 9600-baud modem, no less!), we finally got a real
> T1 connection to the state backbone....
>
> Hunter

I was a "user" to that file server for many years.
Realy clever where the mails was COM files with inline TPU
scripts to rebuild the original file, if I'm not wrong (?).
Just extract the parts from MAIL> and run with @.
I think that there was a separate tool to do the
extract and combine into one large file.

(I may be mixing this up with some similar concept...)

Jan-Erik.