Subj : Re: qwk and/or points
To : August Abolins
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Sun Apr 07 2019 08:54 am
-=> On 04-05-19 20:30, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
TL> Echomail was the main focus of my system. I added some Usenet and mailing
TL> lists later via GIGO on my point system.
AA> Oh my.. that brings back a memory. I believe I used that too. I had a
AA> Waffle gateway to the usenet/internet.
Cool. :) I originally ran GIGO and UUPC on DOS, but later, went SMTP/NNTP
under OS/2.
AA> Precisely. The whole automated proces is what sold me to the idea of
AA> enjoying messages. I hated tying up a phone line while navigating a
AA> BBS manually. But, I loved the bidirectional Zmodem with chat. That
AA> was too cool back in the day.
For me, BBS navigation overheads for QWK/Bluewave were insignificant. Once I
have a BBSs menu system in my head, and if it uses hotkeys, I just send the
hotkeys blindly, as soon as the screen starts to draw. Time from login to
initiating packet download was typically under 30 seconds, and most boards had
a hangup after transfer option too. :)
The point was even earier, of course, and it was a good aggregator - I did have
at least one other feed that didn't go via the main BBS.
