Subj : Re: qwk and/or points
To   : August Abolins
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Sun Apr 07 2019 08:54 am

-=> On 04-05-19 20:30, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 TL> Echomail was the main focus of my system.  I added some Usenet and mailing
 TL> lists later via GIGO on my point system.

 AA> Oh my.. that brings back a memory.  I believe I used that too.  I had a
 AA> Waffle gateway to the usenet/internet.

Cool. :)  I originally ran GIGO and UUPC on DOS, but later, went SMTP/NNTP
under OS/2.

 AA> Precisely.  The whole automated proces is what sold me to the idea of
 AA> enjoying messages.   I hated tying up a phone line while navigating a
 AA> BBS manually.   But, I loved the bidirectional Zmodem with chat.  That
 AA> was too cool back in the day.

For me, BBS navigation overheads for QWK/Bluewave were insignificant.  Once I
have a BBSs menu system in my head, and if it uses hotkeys, I just send the
hotkeys blindly, as soon as the screen starts to draw.  Time from login to
initiating packet download was typically under 30 seconds, and most boards had
a hangup after transfer option too. :)

The point was even earier, of course, and it was a good aggregator - I did have
at least one other feed that didn't go via the main BBS.


.... You tell 'em Bean, He's stringing you.
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