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.


....August
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