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SUBJECT: Silver Xpress... Not just another Off-Line Mail Reader!

New beta versions of Silver Xpress Mail Doors. I'm releasing them to the
public to get the last minutes inputs from all Xpress sysops. This is
your chance to express your input as a Xpress sysop before the official
release. Really, I am very appreciative of any input you may have
(Please direct your comments/input in the XPRESS_SYSOP echo). The
previous release was so successful with comments and bug reports, I feel
it was very successful to get it out to so many people. It really help.
Thanks.

These are the Silver Xpress doors only:

227F121B.ZIP  Opus 1.03 (any fido system)  Opus Xpress "Classic"!
227F221B.ZIP  Opus 1.1x
227F321B.ZIP  Opus 1.70
227M121B.ZIP  Maximus 1.02
227R121B.ZIP  RBBS, Tag (Beta)
227P121B.ZIP  PCboard (any version)
229Q121B.ZIP  QBBS (any version)
227A121B.ZIP  Remote Access (any version)

Feature List

Alot you are about to see will represent almost 2.5 years of vision,
planning, listening to sysops and users like yourselves, and learning
the market to develop a major off-line data communications system.

Let me see if I can remember all the major highlights:

* Note: Some items are not directly usable until new reader is available.

  - Xpress now has a new a local console similar to a BBS. very purty
  - Function keys for shelling to dos, includes a small DOS window.
  - Built-in Ansi driver for faster local speed.
  - New Xpress XYZ protocols (using Xpress XMT.EXE file transfer program)
  - Exec Swapping for low memory situations.
  - Support Desqvu and is aware of time sliceing for multi-lines.
  - Sound control (ie, lowering sound rather than turning it off)
  - new powerful flex select commands.
  - Estimatation of OPX file size calculated after mail scan.
* - Xpress will now send the users's keywords to the reader.
  - File request transfer postponement. Files are attached to mail.
* - Door accepts uploaded files created with the reader. Optionally
    send file to specific user.

Now for the advance technology goodies!

  - The door is now completely ready for Gold Xpress with GX MODE. This
    is a "expert expert" level where minimum info and small special
    prompts are displayed. Excellent for any script system, but
    primarily designed for the Gold Xpress VideoText System (The Xpress
    programmble Videotext communication program).  I originally
    prototyped Gold Jr with Telix so any good script language will not
    have a problem.

  - XAM - Xpress Answering Machine. Just like a Phone Answering machine
    but with mail. An user can now leave a mail recording and whenever
    someone tries to send mail to them, they will get the mail recording.

  - Xpress Service Calls. It is now possible to "Operate" on mail which
    is tossed into areas. Why? You'll see <grin>  FaXXpress is just one
    reason. But this allows for 3rd party product integration to operate
    on mail.

  - Reader Bulletins for special groups of people. XPUSER now allows you
    to define a GROUP for a user. If you define a reader bulletin for
    that group, users belonging to the group will receive the bulletin.
    (Supports RA's user group number)

  - TOWHOM macros: ToWhom macros allow users to send mail to a GROUP,
    users with a certain access, and to ALL. But the twist is that the
    mail become personalized. For instance, I can send mail to @ALL@ (or
    !ALL! because the 2.28 reader uses the @ for a poplist) and all
    users will recieve this message like it was directly mailed to him.
    !10! sends mail to all users with access 10 or greater. @groupname@
    will send mail to all users associated with a certain groupname (you
    can use XPUSER to define groupnames for users). For example: @G001@
    will send mail to users in Group G001. Very Powerful. Whats nice
    about this is that users think it's personal direct mail :-) NOTE:
    I designed this mostly for sysops. I can see where I probably need
    an option in XPCFG to allow users to do this stuff.

  - Xpress Service Files. It is now possible to send special files to
    all or individual users. Sysop will be getting a utility and file
    specs to create service files. Designed for advance system
    integration at the reader system.

* - Xpress is now compatible with Novell's MHS messaging system. For
    those all don't know what MHS is, MHS is to the commericial world
    what FidoNet is to the Hobby world. Although in some instances,
    Fidonet can be found in the commercial world. But by far, MHS is the
    PC commercial standard for LAN base electronic mail. X.400 is
    another on the drawing table.

  - Xpress is now ready to accept a new flat text file message format.
    The file spec is not totally defined but is is designed to
    facilitate service calls which generate new messages (called service
    messages) to be automatically tossed into the mail system. An
    example is a database inquiry report system, order entry acknowledge
    system or FaXXpress receipts.

Thats about it. I might have missed a few things but over all what I
have designed is a major product in off-line fax,  data  entry,
database, image, mail reader systems. No one comes close to this
technology but we'll soon see the copy-cats :-) But you know where you
heard or seen it first! The funny thing about this all. it's HERE! it's
not vapor!

Complete file specs will be issued for the new Service calls, Service
Files and all the other integration features.

As far the reader, well, my major goal was to get the door completely
finished and then concentrate on the reader with the new integration
pieces. It's all there. Just lots of bugs to work out.

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