Hi! Alan,

On 09 May 19 02:20, you wrote to August Abolins:

 AI> Can I ask you a couple quick questions about sempoint?
 AI> Is it shareware?
 AI> If it is shareware is it registerable? Is it fully functionable while
 AI> unregistered?

It was shareware.  The author made it freeware with the fully-functioning 
release of version 2.26 in December 1999.  Here's a copy of the File_ID.diz...

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-=> SemPoint v2.26 for Windows <=-
SemPoint is the 1st Offline Reader for
Windows useful to both BBS Users and to
FidoNet Points (or Sysops). It can
handle QWK, BlueWave, Mc-Link's X)press
and Usenet newsgroups mail packets, as
well as permanent message bases in *.MSG
(Fido), Hudson, Squish, JAM end EzyCom
formats! EASY to use, but powerful!
Built-in zip/unzip, UUEncode/Decode,
PGP shell, Rich Text display feature,
message sorting, TIC generator.
Multilingual: English, Italian, French,
Spanish, Catalan, Swedish, German and
Dutch editions available! Y2K compatible.
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 AI> Is it freeware or opensource? Is it still in
 AI> development/maintained?

Free, closed source.  No maintainers.  The author got it right, for the most 
part.  I've been using it since late 2002, and... I wanna use it agin... soon!! 
 :)

 AI> Andrew Pamment wrote Magicka BBS,

Nice bloke.  He lives just down the road from me... oh, about 350kms.  ;)

Cheers,
Paul.

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