Subj : origins of QWK
To   : MONICA NEUFELD
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Thu Jan 29 2004 06:20 am

Hi MONICA.

27-Jan-04 06:54:00, MONICA NEUFELD wrote to CHARLIE GABRIEL


  -=> CHARLIE GABRIEL wrote to MONICA NEUFELD <=-

 MN> MN>-=> andrew clarke wrote to All on 01-21-04 21:27 <=-

 ac>> @MSGID: <400E9846.33.offline@kia.zapto.org> From
 ac>> http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/16/2028220.shtml?tid=95 :

 ac>> Re:Don't Forget Message Networks (Score:2, Informative) by
 ac>> Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17, @01:33AM (#5317606)

 ac>> Just to set things clear at the beginning, I'm "Sparky", the
 ac>> Sparky in "Sparkware", and I'm the "father" of the QWK format.

 CG>> Umm... and what was Mark Herring?

 MN> MN>Thanks Sparky.  Don't know what I would do without offline
 MN> mail!

 CG>> There may be a claim for multiple fathers. :>

 CG>> * OLX 2.2 * Well, don't look at ME.  Ask the troll.

 MN> I looked this up on the internet and to be honest, I couldn't find
 MN> a definate source as to who invented QWK mail.  I did find that
 MN> Mark Herring is Sparky.

All the documents I've found that many any claim identify "Sparky" as the
father of QWK, and author of the QMAIL door.

It was a while back that I searched, look for documents that describe the
QWK file format.

 -=> Bye <=-

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