Subj : Re: Amiga Offline Mail Re
To : Anssi Saari
From : Simon Geddes
Date : Tue Sep 03 2019 09:15 pm
At 4:09 PM on 2 Sep 19, Anssi Saari said to Simon Geddes:
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AS> Just curious but what's the reason for offline mail readers today? Back
AS> in the day I used offline readers to save on phone costs and I suppose
AS> it was more efficient for the BBS too with limited phone lines... But
AS> are these issues relevant today?
I like being able to work on messages in my own time, without the sense of being connected - even though call costs are not really an issue there is still a feeling of being "hurried" which I don't have when working offline. I might like to use a spell checker in the future too, once I become more au fait with changing the editor in Q-Blue. Plus I use dial-up and am thinking about calling international boards because I've exhausted the meagre UK offerings that still offer dial-up connections. This will very much make call costs relevant again too! I could "just" telnet, but I like not having internet in the home. It makes it something of a sanctury.
I wrote the previous paragraph last night, packed the message ready for uploading the next day. Then, pondering what I wrote after going up to bed, I realised I had been needlessly inflammatory with a few points. So another unappreciated benefit of using an offline reader is it gives a bit of buffer between writing and posting.
Trump might find such an innovation handy for his Twitter account!
