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to: AUGUST ABOLINS
from: DAN CLOUGH
date: 2020-06-09 20:31:00
subject: Re: /what point software

-=> August Abolins wrote to Michiel van der Vlist <=-

 AA>> What is the point software that those point systems are using?

 AA>  MvdV> Binkd, Fmail, Golded.

 AA> Congratulations for building/stitching multiple programs together
 AA> to accomplish point appearance.

 AA> But when I said point software I was refering to the fidonet
 AA> understanding of what "point software" means. Just look at the
 AA> Fidonews newsletter ever week:

 AA>  +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 AA> - -+

 ==> POINT SOFTWARE

 AA>   APoint               |PI   |https://stargate.org.uk/apoint/
 AA>                        |     | v1.25 on 2001-12-12

 AA>   CrossPoint (XP)      |P?   |http://www.crosspoint.de (German
 AA> only)
 AA>                        |     | pm@crosspoint.de
 AA>                        |     | v3.12d  on 1999-12-22

 AA>   FreeXP               |P    |http://www.freexp.de (German only)
 AA>                        |     | support@freexp.de
 AA>                        |     | v3.42 on 2010-06-27
 AA>   FidoIP               |PO
 |http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki
 AA>                        |     |  /fidoip/
 AA>                        |     | v.1.0.5 on 2010-12

 AA>   OpenXP               |PIO  |https://sourceforge.net/projects
 AA>                        |     |  /openxp5/
 AA> 2:240/2188.31
 AA>                        |     |http://openxp.uk
 AA> Windows/Linux
 AA>                        |     | dev@openxp.uk
 AA> English/German
 AA>                        |     | v5.0.42 on 2019-12-28

 AA>   WinPoint             |PI   |http://www.winpoint.org
 AA>                        |     |
 AA> English/German/Spanish
 AA>                        |     |https://stargate.org.uk/winpoint/
 AA>                        |     | v5 (Beta Release) on 2017-03-17
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 AA> - -+


Good points!  ;-)

Game, Set, and Match to Mr. Abolins.

 AA> Are you suggesting that list is a lie?  or incomplete?  ..or
 AA> falsely reports what point software actually is?    ;)

My firm belief is that he (and others) are just arguing for the 
sake of arguing...  :(


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