ml>> because MANY of the things that were done were done because
 ml>> of the QWK networks... both fidonet and QWK networking were
 ml>> developing at the

 PW> As far as I was aware, QWK was just a mail format - what are/were
 PW> QWk networks? (Software developed by "Sparky"?)

yes, QWK is the stuff by sparky... RIME/PC Relay is/was one of the biggest
QWK networks... it was my first exposure to any kind of message networks...
believe it or not, i used to read over 500 messages a day in QWK format...
i was also a beta tester for Session Manager, a QWK offline reader... when
i last counted my fido stuff, i was reading 30 areas or so and
participating in most all of them... at one time, 1000 messages a day was
common for me to read... now a days, it's getting "not fun
anymore"...

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