Subj : Why use a Point, and recommendations
To   : Dan Clough
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Jun 03 2023 21:59:00

Hello Dan!

** On Friday 02.06.23 - 08:50, you wrote to Alan Beck:

 AB>> Being a point is great, you just poll your bossnode and the mail
 AB>> comes in, easy peasy.

 DC> Yes, I understand that.  But it's also easy to grab a QWK packet from
 DC> (my) BBS and read/reply that way.  So... point has no advantage there.

Pointing can be faster.  With OXP, the command to poll are  
three keystrokes:  N A <CR>


 DC> I like using QWK, and the whole point of my questions is
 DC> to find out if operating as a Point would be any better.
 DC> So far I've not seen any indication of that.

You just gotta give OXP a try to see what's different and/or  
better.

For me, it's the database-like storage of messages following a  
poll.  Unlike QWK were you have to keep track of each  
particular file and/or read/reply to all the messages in a  
single QWK at a time, the database result allows archiving  
messages all in one place and makes it easy to find any  
particular message.

OXP allows marking individual messages for "later reply" or  
tagging them to HOLD so they don't get deleted on a purge.

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  ../|ug

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