WS> Wouldn't a "web offline reader" just be an HTML Dump ?

It would be an XML dump.

 WS> You can do that now, with any website.  I think it is a toggle
 WS> backslash and dump into a file in "tags visible" mode. Any website
 WS> "grabber" should let you store an image of the site locally to your
 WS> drive ?

I guess a web browser could be used as the offline reader if the components
were also downloaded to the users machine.

 WS> How would you upload the replies and merge them, though, a UUCP
 WS> for Web ?

I think replies would go back up via ftp, maybe a modified binkp protocol.
As a bunch of messages (msg.xml) inside of a packet (pkt.xml)

And a telnet interface could be written to access the backend server...if
someone wants to jump on that.

With best regards, Dale

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