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to: Jasen Betts
from: Monica Neufeld
date: 2004-01-30 07:24:00
subject: origins of QWK

-=> Jasen Betts wrote to MONICA NEUFELD on 01-29-04 06:20 <=-

 MN> I looked this up on the internet and to be honest, I couldn't find
 MN> a definate source as to who invented QWK mail.  I did find that
 MN> Mark Herring is Sparky.

 JB> All the documents I've found that many any claim identify
"Sparky" as
 JB> the father of QWK, and author of the QMAIL door.

 JB> It was a while back that I searched, look for documents that describe
 JB> the QWK file format.

Well, I hope that Sparky got rich off the deal.

... Mickey / Monica Neufeld 
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