Bob, at 08:15 on Fri, Dec 16 1994, you wrote to Keith Richardson ...

KR> why not run a real point with the advantages of a messagebase 
KR> with automatic maintenance?

BL> Do you mean I ought to learn a whole new program that is as much 
BL> use to me as a second dick? So I can set up a BBS that I don't want 
BL> to do?

Not a BBS, just the front-end mailer.

BL> So I can send some dickhead money for a program that doesn't 
BL> work very well? 

ROFL!  The most commonly used (and reliable) point//mailer software, such
as BinkleyTerm, Squish and MsgEd, are all copyrighted FREEWARE.

BL> I can't see the point, really, and I don't need a messagebase 
BL> manager, either. I use the delete command.

The point is that you eliminate the PKTQWK conversion process (one
that seems to have caused more hassles than everything else put together),
and proper mailer s/w doesn't do shitty things like truncating Subject
lines and Name fields etc.  Netmail is much easier too - no bullshit with
To: 3:nnn/nnn in the message body - it's all transparent. 

However, it's a matter of personal preference in the end, and after having
used QWK readers for some years, I much prefer my current setup (fucked
user interface [(C) RS 199n] notwithstanding).  |-)

Regards, Bill

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