Subj : Re: qwk and/or points
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Sat Apr 06 2019 02:34 am

 -=> On 04-05-19  00:52,  Alan Ianson <=-
 -=> spoke to August Abolins about qwk and/or points <=-

 AI> I am favourable to offline mail. The difference between a 
 AI> point and offline is that the point has the whole history 
 AI> where with offline you are limited to what is in your 
 AI> packet. I guess that works for some.

Not so true.  The point can only keep so much of the message base before
it overflows.  As a user of QWK offline, I have messages dating back for
twenty years.  Of course, searching for previous messages in those
archives is not easy.  Searching in the *recent* message base is much
easier.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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