Subj : OLX for Windows
To   : William McBrine
From : Monica Neufeld
Date : Fri Feb 06 2004 06:00 am

-=> William McBrine wrote to Monica Neufeld on 02-05-04 11:48 <=-

 MN> As for Blue Wave, I wonder if anyone uses that format anymore?

 WM> I'm using it right now. This message comes to you via the Blue Wave
 WM> door for Maximus.

 WM> In general, Blue Wave is a better format, but it depends somewhat on
 WM> the implementation and the underlying message base. Blue Wave doors or
 WM> built-in functions are available for many boards, though certainly not
 WM> for as many as QWK.

 WM> For anyone still developing, if you don't want to implement Blue Wave
 WM> for your BBS, then I would urge you to at least consider QWKE. It's a
 WM> collection of simple extensions to QWK that give it a lot of BW-like
 WM> functionality.

I have never signed in to a Maximus BBS.  So far, I've been using
Synchronet, Wildcat, and Mystic boards.  All of these boards use the
QWK format, so I thought that Blue Wave was old news.  You learn
something every day.

.... Mickey / Monica Neufeld 
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