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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