Re: Golded+ and QWK
By: Kai Richter to mark lewis on Wed Jun 24 2015 18:46:48
KR> Oh. I didn't note that, thanks and sorry. I never heard of QWK networks,
KR> QWK is a point to point protocol between a BBS and an offline user. It
KR> takes a snapshot of new unread messages from the BBS msgbase and pack it
KR> into the QWK file. Due to the limitations i don't think that the QWK
KR> format is suitable for message base requirements. But maybe the QWK thing
KR> you are talking about is totally different.
When I first started with my BBS (PCBoard at the time), QWK networking was the
only way. It worked very well, and I even did Fido that way, until we found a
way to use other methods. and then eventually it was built into the BBS program
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