Subj : Offline Mail Reader
To : Jon Watson
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Sep 25 2004 12:39 pm
Hi Jon (of 1:134/703),
On <Wed, 01 Sep 04, 20:05 o'clock>, in a message to Rob Swindell you wrote:
JW> I actually stumbled across this OLR called SemPoint. I've never
JW> heard of it, but man is it neat. Rather than just doing the old "get a
JW> packet, read a packet, save reply packet" deal, it builds a
JW> message base on my computer. Every packet I download
JW> gets added to the existing messages, so that I can
JW> reference old messages right in the program. It's got a ton of
JW> options that I like, handles BW/QWK and some other types. All in all
JW> pretty neat.
I was going to recommend SemPoint. I'm glad you were able to discover it. I
have used it since 1992 (I think). As you discovered, it handles QWK packet
messages like a database. You never have to worry about managing individual
packets. I use it in "Fidonet" mode by fetching actual fido-type packets from
a fido "feed".
I had a little trouble setting it up on an XP machine for a relative, but it
works just fine and reliably on my WinME machine. What Windows version are
you using it with? It should have no trouble in Win98/SE
JW> Of course, everything looks neat in the beginning, we'll see how it
JW> turns out :)
It's loaded with features that I have not fully explored yet! But if you have
any questions, maybe I can help.
