Ola August!

** 07.03.21 - 10:56, August Abolins wrote to Mauro Veiga:

AA>>> QWK was designed to speedup online use. ... QWK is for
AA>>> people who do not want to refer to older messages.

MV>>      Not here.  :-) QWK is the best way to store and backup
MV>>      old messages.  I have QWK /BW packages from dead 90's
MV>>      systems that I like so much to read.  It would be
MV>>      impossible to rescue them today.

> I commend you for maintaining a scheduled routine (your 30-day
> rule) and being organized.

Thanks.  :-)

> But why not just "toss" all those messages into something like
> Squish format and use something like Sempoint (which handles
> both QWK and BW in the same program automatically!) to read them
> whenever you want?  No more repeat unpacking and searching
> required.   ;)

Seems a good way but i don't know Sempoint. Need to test and understand.  
Thanks for tip.

Has many ways to store messages. I use BlueWave (and a long retention
on my system) because i like so much BlueWave visual, style and tools.
A NNTP server also is a good store option.

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