Subj : Bluewave
To   : apam
From : Oli
Date : Fri May 07 2021 11:36 am

apam wrote (2021-05-07):

 ap>> My main concern with rushfan's idea, is if a packet spans messages
 ap>> over the cutoff, like some messages under and some over. I'm not
 ap>> sure how that would work.

 Ti>> How about a limit in the bluewave section?  ie: the most number of
 Ti>> messages you can download in an area is the last 2000.  I mean...
 Ti>> who in their right mind is going to download 65535+ messages in a
 Ti>> single area?  Maybe I'm not understanding the issue though?

 a> No, it's the message numbers, not the number of messages. So you could
 a> download 65520-65550 and it would only be 30 messages. The number of the
 a> message is important because it's used in replys to get the right reply
 a> kludge.

QWK and Bluewave seems broken by design. The only sane format seems to be SOUP, but RFC822 is another can of worms regarding complexity.

I never understood why people used QWK / Bluewave back in the 90s (I tried and was not convinced). Crosspoint or a FTN editor seemed so much more enjoyable to use. But I have to admit, I haven't used an offline reader since then. Maybe someone can remind me what the advantages of offline readers are?

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