-=> Mark Lewis said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "FTP07" on 04-23-03  18:46.....

 ML> correction... blue wave is an offline mail reader... it is not a
 ML> message tosser...

Correction: There used to be a Blue Wave Door at the BBS end. I
apologise for the wrong terminology in my previous.

Using the Blue Wave OLR in conjuction with the Blue Wave door
had several advantages. I can't remember all of them right now
but one was that the outgoing Blue Wave mail packets didn't
suffer from the well known Y2K error that the outgoing QWK
packets have. I believe the date was attached to the messages in
binary form.

OTOH there was a defect in some versions of the door that trying
to upload a mail packet after 1-1-2000 would crash the system.
I remember very well this happening on three successive days
until the sysop rang me at home and told me what was happening.

He had posted a message to me about this problem in the private
mail but of course the system crashed when I tried to upload,
which was before I did the download so I never saw it...

 ML> pine and other email reading programs don't do the job? they perform
 ML> the same functions as blue wave plus some...

Darned if I know. I haven't seen any email reading programs
touted anywhere so I haven't had a chance to try any
alternatives.

+++THOUGHT FOR TODAY+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    The man who will not admit he's been wrong loves himself
    more than he loves the truth.
                            Anon
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From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia
   "Queen City of The South"    34:55 S  138:36 E

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