JAM Message Base Format

The JAM Message Base Format was one of the most popular file formats of message bases on DOS-based BBSes in the 1990s. JAM stands for "Joaquim-Andrew-Mats" after the original authors of the API, Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner, Mats Birch, and Mats Wallin.[1] Joaquim was the author of FrontDoor, a DOS-based FidoNet-compatible mailer. Andrew was the author of RemoteAccess, a popular DOS-based Bulletin Board System. JAM was originally released in 1993 in C, however the most popular implementation was Mark May's "MK Source for Msg Access" written in Pascal which also saw its initial release in 1993.[2]

BBS software

Mail import/export software

Mail reading/editing software

Offline QWK/Bluewave software

Mail posting tools

(this software posts ASCII text files to JAM bases as messages)

Statistics tools

(this software gathers statistical information)

Maintenance tools

Mail tools and utility software

(this software fills some other utilitarian need not covered in another category listing) (some of this software is listed here because it hasn't been categorized)

Other JAM capable software

  • JamNNTPd[4] - Jam based NNTP server, uses the JAM message format
  • Message Base Spy[5] - message base research, troubleshooting and development tool

See also

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2006-05-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Filename MKSM106.ZIP Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine (may be found in ZIP, LZH or ARJ archive formats)
  3. ^ "de beste bron van informatie over billing ware. Deze website is te koop!". billingware.org. Archived from the original on 2014-07-08. Retrieved 2013-03-13.
  4. ^ "de beste bron van informatie over billing ware. Deze website is te koop!". billingware.org. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2013-03-13.
  5. ^ "Message Base Spy" (in Russian). Kvitek.com. Retrieved 2013-03-13.