Hi Joe.

19-Jan-03 23:01:00, Joe Nicholson wrote to Mike Pavlik



  >> On the BBS I select the ReadNonStop option which flashes the
  >> messages across the screen, and on a daily basis is finished in
  >> about 1 to 3 min., depending on how heavy the traffic has been.
  >> All the messages are captured for offline reading and I'm rarely
  >> on the BBS for more than 5 minutes.

 JN> I'm calling a Wildcat BBS which allows me to enter "!joe nicholson
 JN> password" and takes me directly to the QWK door.  I enter
"U" to
 JN> upload a reply packet if I have one.  Otherwise, or after
 JN> upoading, I enter "D" and "G" and I have my QWK
packet and am off
 JN> in less than 40 seconds.  The "G" lets Wildcat hang up after it
 JN> downloads a QWK packet.

 JN> When I open the QWK packet in BlueWave, I can scan to see if there
 JN> are any new files I might want to download next time I call (and
 JN> the routinge above would be slightly altered).  Then I go to the
 JN> message section and can leisurely or hurriedly read depending on
 JN> my mood and schedule.

 JN> The only thing I can't do using BW on a QWK system is add and
 JN> delete message areas to scan.  That has to be done while on-line.

you can..  it's done by manually writing a control message, I forget the
exact details for WC systems.

but something like TO: WCMAIL   SUBJ:ADD in the area you want to add

"WCMAIL" is "controlname" found in the file
"door.id" of the QWK packets

when I was using megaread I used to do that as megaread used the wrong
controlname most of the time. (it always used QMAIL)

 -=> Bye <=-

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