Subj : your OLR home page
To   : William McBrine
From : Jim Hanoian
Date : Mon May 28 2001 01:44 pm

-=> William McBrine wrote to Jim Hanoian <=-

 JH> Maybe there's a tool that can take the HTML, strip the codes but
 JH> leave the list in a column-oriented listing?

 WM> What, you mean like this?

Not bad.... I'll have to check that s/w out.


 WM> This "printout" doesn't show the URLs, though.

I don't think that's entirely necessary.  If the user wanted to
get links, etc, then they'd already be on the web site, right?


 JH> My concept of the list is to show products that can be used
 JH> to (primarily) read BBS-based mail.  You've mentioned one that
 JH> has broken that mold (MR/2 ICE) but missed the other (SoMail).
 JH> SoMail used to do QWK and a couple of other formats, if I remember
 JH> correctly, but the author ended up dropping that support in favor
 JH> of MP in the latest version

 WM> So I guess the question is, do these still belong in the list?
 WM> Or should the last QWK-capable versions be listed?

It is probably better to error on the side of inclusion than it 
is exclusion.


 JH> So, as I have come across the programs I've tried to include them.
 JH> Probably haven't done a very good job of it since I've never
 JH> personally pointed.

 WM> Me neither. No offense, but perhaps someone who _does_ point
 WM> should maintain the point software list... though I realize
 WM> that no one else seems to be doing it now. :-/

Yup.  I'd incorporate the info.... as long as I got the help to
figure it all out <g>.


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