Subj : Re: Create message bases
To   : MARK LEWIS
From : Marceline Jones
Date : Sun Mar 14 2021 05:02 pm

 MJ> My point was I can skip all the other software and just go directly
 MJ> from QWK to a node.

 ML> not really... QWK is lossy... especially with FTN messages... there is
 ML> a lot of information lost when FTN messages are packed via QWK... 
 ML> it should be noted that QWK was shoehorned into FTN... it originates
 ML> on a completely different network and has much different principles...
 ML> QWK works for end users solely because it transfers the message body
 ML> which is 99% of what they care about... QWK links messages by subject
 ML> line which we all know is a fallacy and quite wrong in many cases...
 ML> there are better ways to properly link message threads no matter what
 ML> the subject lines are... 

All I need to go from QWK to node is (1) mailer, (2) mail processor and (3) GoldED.

Kai Richter makes it sound like some long complicated process.

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