Subj : Heeeeellllp
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Mar 14 2019 02:35:58

Hello Martin,

On 13.03.19, you wrote:

 AA>> WinPoint seems to be quite a fine all-in-one program for supporting
 AA>> echomail access without needing any other fancy FTN support programs.

 MF> Yes it is but it's a bit buggy here 'n there and unfortunately the bugs
 MF> will probably never be fixed :-((

Other than the char-case issues with the arealist,what else are you finding 
buggy?  I am still quite new to WinPoint so I am not sure what else I may 
encounter.

I do seem to have a problem with using the Request feature.  
It seems to always build a request to 0:8/15.  I don't know where the number 
comes from. So, Instead, I resorted to creating my filefix requests manually 
and directly in netmail.

But now that I have subscribed to getting the nodelist automatically from my 
boss, I don't expect to be needing the built-in Request anymore.  But it sure 
would be nice if Request wasn't broken.

Apoint and Beemail came really close to being good Windows-GUI programs for 
regular use.  

Apoint was an all-in-one complete point system.  But it turned out to be 
unreliable and crashed or locked up unexpectedly.  

Beemail still looks pretty good even today (althought the graphics are a bit 
dated). The transport protocols are built-in and ready to operate. But it needs 
extra configuration for a tosser, scanner, and archivers before it is useful.

WinPoint gets it right and makes it ready-to-go.


 AA>> I am currently switching back and forth between WinPoint and the
 AA>> newsgroup (nntp) method with Thunderbird. Both have advantages and
 AA>> disadvantages. I was thinking of writing up a comparison of those.

 MF> A comparison would be nice, thanks :)

That would have to go on my ToDo list!  LOL.



 MF> I've never used the NNTP method with Thunderbird, perhaps you could
 MF> consider posting some instructions on how to do it in a separate post.

I co-created a write-up just for that very matter several years ago with 
another user/sysop. Since then, my home computer situation has changed a few 
times and the original doc could be residing on one of those.  The doc was 
posted for download at one time, but I can't remember how we distributed it.  
And until I can find my copy of the doc, I can't remember the sysop I was 
working with!  (My brain has two sysop names floating in my gray matter: Sean 
Dennis, Mark Lewis.) ..but I can't be sure who is correct, or even if it was 
someone else. 


.../|ug

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