Subj : Offline Mail Reader
To : Jon Watson
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Thu Sep 02 2004 03:27 am
Re: Offline Mail Reader
By: Jon Watson to Rob Swindell on Wed Sep 01 2004 09:05 pm
> On <Tue, 31 Aug 04>, you wrote me:
>
> RS> With most decent BBSes today supporting NNTP (as well as QWK), I
> RS> usually just use an NNTP News Reader (e.g. Outlook Express). :-)
>
> Are you trying to insinuate something about my BBS? :)
No, I was just letting you know that QWK isn't the only "offline reader" format
in use by BBS users today.
> I actually stumbled across this OLR called SemPoint. I've never heard of it,
> but man is it neat. Rather than just doing the old "get a packet, read a
> packet, save reply packet" deal, it builds a message base on my computer.
> Every packet I download gets added to the existing messages, so that I can
> reference old messages right in the program. It's got a ton of options that
> like, handles BW/QWK and some other types. All in all pretty neat.
>
> Of course, everything looks neat in the beginning, we'll see how it turns ou
> :)
Cool. I think OLMR used to do something similar (save and index all .QWK
packets), but it's been a long time. :-)
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