-=> JOE NICHOLSON wrote to MIKE PAVLIK <=-

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

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

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

MultiMail merely uses S for subscribe and U for unsubscribe
and it's worked on every board but one I've tried it on.
You just use L to open long listing and select and unselect,
each request goes up in the .REP packet and with the next download
you've got them. However I've not figured out how or if
it's possible to set message pointers somehow.
Seems to me IIRC there was a kludge for doing so offline 
but I may be wrong on that one.
 
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