Subj : Re: WinXP
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : ROBERT FOWLER
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 12:10 am

-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to THURSTON ACKERMAN <=-

 TA>> I have PAN in my linspire disto but haven't been able get
 TA>> it to work correctly yet. Where can OldAck please go to
 TA>> find out howto to manage my QWK packets from
 TA>> Docsplace.tzo, or BBSNETS, or ? please?

 CA> The frequent references to using the usenet format to read FIDO
 CA> only adds to the existing confusion here IMO. There is no
 CA> _need_ to make this complicated. There are sufficient free
 CA> software packages available to use the QWK format without the
 CA> need for conversion(s).

 MA> mmail-0.46.tar.gz

 CA> As Martin has pointed out there is MultiMail (for Linux,
 CA> Windows, and 'others').

 CA> I use ATP for my Windows and Linux installs. ATP source code is
 CA> available and compiles for several OS. I selected ATP because I
 CA> wanted to customize my offline reader and I don't do C++ (MM
 CA> code). ATP displays look like you are logged onto a BBS and
 CA> that makes me smile at times (nostalgia?).

 CA> Forget the usenet formatting and newsreaders and just use what
 CA> most people are using.

 As I recall, Alan's comment about Linux users (I called them
 elitists) who think than anyone using a computer should be able
 to compile was what started this thread.

 Ack doesn't compile and wants to read Fido in Linux.  CS suggested
 PAN, etc., from Ross's news server as an alternative, and now
 YOU tell him and everyone else to.... learn to compile (implied) and
 use what everyone else (linux users?) are using??? :-)

 That's not only elitism.  It's kooky.

 Regards,

 Robert Fowler



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