At 4:09 PM on 2 Sep 19, Anssi Saari said to Simon Geddes:

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AS> Just curious but what's the reason for offline mail readers today? Back
AS> in the day I used offline readers to save on phone costs and I suppose
AS> it was more efficient for the BBS too with limited phone lines... But
AS> are these issues relevant today?

I like being able to work on messages in my own time, without the sense of
being connected - even though call costs are not really an issue there is
still a feeling of being "hurried" which I don't have when
working offline. I might like to use a spell checker in the future too,
once I become more au fait with changing the editor in Q-Blue. Plus I use
dial-up and am thinking about calling international boards because I've
exhausted the meagre UK offerings that still offer dial-up connections.
This will very much make call costs relevant again too! I could
"just" telnet, but I like not having internet in the home. It
makes it something of a sanctury. 

I wrote the previous paragraph last night, packed the message ready for
uploading the next day. Then, pondering what I wrote after going up to bed,
I realised I had been needlessly inflammatory with a few points. So another
unappreciated benefit of using an offline reader is it gives a bit of
buffer between writing and posting.

Trump might find such an innovation handy for his Twitter account!

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