Subj : Re: qwk and/or points
To : Alan Ianson
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Sat Apr 06 2019 02:34 am
-=> On 04-05-19 00:52, Alan Ianson <=-
-=> spoke to August Abolins about qwk and/or points <=-
AI> I am favourable to offline mail. The difference between a
AI> point and offline is that the point has the whole history
AI> where with offline you are limited to what is in your
AI> packet. I guess that works for some.
Not so true. The point can only keep so much of the message base before
it overflows. As a user of QWK offline, I have messages dating back for
twenty years. Of course, searching for previous messages in those
archives is not easy. Searching in the *recent* message base is much
easier.
Dale Shipp
fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
(1:261/1466)
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