Subj : Re: qwk and/or points
To   : August Abolins
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Sat Apr 06 2019 02:40 am

 -=> On 04-05-19  19:59,  August Abolins <=-
 -=> spoke to Alan Ianson about qwk and/or points <=-

 AA> The traditional QWK/REP method started to become laborious and
 AA> pressure   mounted when I was anxious to get the next packet *before* I
 AA> was finished   reading and replying in the previous one.

I always read my mail one QWK packet at a time, each night.  If I am
gone for a while and need to do catch up, I still read them one at a
time, oldest first.

 AA> But then...  I discovered SemPoint (Windows).  It could consolidate
 AA> all   the QWK packet messages into an accumulating database.

I seem to recall some software that would combine multiple QWK packets
into one -- but it never interested me.

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


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