Hi Brenton,

Quoting Brenton to Paul

[lots of point software critisicm deleted]

BV>For anyone interested, Ppoint with Binkley and BNU is the easiest
BV>thing in the world to get running. It took me longer to find Bink
BV>2.5 (for DOS) and the BNU fossil on my CD than it did to set it up.

BV>BTW, the MKQWK stuff that you have on TML is really only useful if
BV>the person is setting up a RA or QBBS system. A wee bit of overkill
BV>just to get E-Mail don't you think ?

I can understand much of your critcism of running as a point, but I'm
sure you can appreciate that having a few weeks of messages stored in a
msgbase is quite convenient. I was running my point setup with a puny
msgbase (it had to fit on a floppy), but now that I get qwk packets off
my msgbase, I can set it to keep 3000 Avtech messages, which should be
handy. All I need now is a decent qwk reader rather than the rather
primitive olx td. If someone cares to let me evaluate a more powerful
reader (such as the latest olx offering ;-) ) I promise to consider
registering or purchasing a copy. I think it may be a bit overpriced
though. I'll be passing through Bakersfield in January BTW.

The primitive unituitive unfriendly interface of a point setup doesn't
matter so much, because once things are running ok, you don't have to
worry about delving into the setup. None of that script fuss either.

I haven't noticed Anthony spitting the point dummy for over a week
now, so perhaps he's finding it not so bad afterall...


Regards, Alan

BTW, Is the dinner in Manly still on? Hopefully you received my reply
saying it would only be me coming. I also forget what date it was (3rd
or 4th), and shit, what was the name of the restaurant? I looked up the
community white pages under mong* and saw nothing. That's why I need to
keep a monster sized msgbase ;-)

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