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echo: locsysop
to: Frank Malcolm
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1994-12-06 10:06:16
subject: bad netmail

FM> Thanks, Bob. I won't do it then, 'cos I want to continue to use
 FM> QWK at this stage. Unless I could use part of it, then PKT2QWK
 FM> etc and OLX. But Paul warned me about tampering with *any* of
 FM> it! :-) Not that I can anyway, 'cos I can't freq it.

  I wrote a new pktjoin in VB (one that ignores tenmin.pkt), and
thought: "Jeeze, this is too easy!" so I got stuck into QWK2PKT.

  Bloody hell! Both QWK and PKT are inventions of the Devil. First,
you need an  entirely different system for Netmail under QWK, so you
have to do it twice, and then you have to sit down and work out all
the ways it can stuff up. Nothing is checked! It either works, or it
doesn't.

  I thought Paul was exaggerating with his kludges, and that it would
be pretty easy to produce a PKT out of a reply QWK, but it's just one
big kludge! The system is a kludge. 

Regards,
Bob
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