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echo: points
to: AUGUST ABOLINS
from: F. KRUEGER
date: 2020-03-16 09:49:00
subject: webpoint - send/receive

Hello, August Abolins.
On 15/03/20 22:33 you wrote:

 AA> Sveiks Martin! 14 Mar 20 09:53, you wrote to me:
 MF>> After logging in and starting your Web Point, it is now necessary 
 MF>> to select "7. Receive Messages", followed by clicking the "OK" 
 MF>> button.
 AA> Thanks for pointing that out. I was wondering why the message 
 AA> count hadn't changed when I knew that new messages should have 
 AA> arrived since last time. Having the user explicitly select "7." 
 AA> for receiving  (and "8." for sending) is good procedure to get 
 AA> accustomed to this webpoint environment where the user is totally 
 AA> responsible for processing the incoming and outgoing messages. It 
 AA> is not much different when using OpenXP where we explicitly "poll" 
 AA> to move messages.

Hi, having the ability to manage sending and receiving independently is
convenient.  Another change that has been made is that sending and receiving
commands for areafix are independent and do not involve sending messages that
you have written and do not want to send (as per your suggestion).

Bye
Thomas 

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