On or about: 11-14-06  17:23, Mark Lewis did engage James Bradley
regarding, but not limited to: Scratchpad Echo 

 JB> I have a little bit of a logistical quandary here.
 
 JB> I have a few corespondents, who I've worked up a voluminous
 JB> exchange with. When I get my mail, I pound out the quick replies.
 JB> If the big posts aren't answered in the same package, they can get
 JB> lost in an old QWK file, under many number of other QWK files, and
 JB> are too often missed because I didn't have the time to compose a
 JB> reply to them that day.

 ML> gack... don't ya hate it when that happens?

Them bloody blow hards! 

 ML> is golded for offline use only or does it also access local 
 ML> message base formats like HMB, JAM and MSG??

I never did get into the message squishing, and squashing business. I was
using BW, as a replacement for Golded, where IIR, all but two obscure
commands were met. Don't ask me which, as it *was* ten years ago, which
might as well be a lifetime considering the decade that passed.

 ML> with a set of local message bases, you keep the messages 
 ML> for as long as you want and the lastread pointers are all 
 ML> right there with you... messages to you can be marked as 
 ML> unread as well as being locked in some formats so that 
 ML> nightly maint doesn't kill them off... i've locked messages 
 ML> so as to return to them later, forgotten about them and 
 ML> then stumbled over them a year or more later O:)

So, are you in the habit of teasing people this way, or is it just me?
 This is the functionality I wish, by being a QWK packet
downloader. I call in for packet 'A', read and reply to the quick posts. By
the time I get to downloading packet 'M', I realize there's been a snub,
and off hunting I go for the OLMR file that contained it.

I remember one or two tack-ons to BW, that would make it function more like
a point, that it would accumulate messages to an area, and act on quotas.

 JB> Do I remember right, that there was a system, that would toss, and
 JB> squish messages from OLM files, as if we were a point? Just some
 JB> way, to keep these half composed messages in an active packet, yet
 JB> not queued for uploading... 

 ML> i'm not sure about what you are describing but i would 
 ML> seriously look into getting something much more FTN-point 
 ML> like and have some real message bases locally... for one 
 ML> thing, they make a great archive that can go back years and 
 ML> years if you started them that long ago and have kept them 
 ML> without maint all this time... i've at least one area that 
 ML> has some 20000 messages in it ;)

There you go again. Am I just that fun to poke with a stick? [-;

 ML> looks like you are still using BW a bit contrary to your opening
 ML> statement ;) 

Contrary to *which* opening statement: The one I wrote, or the one you read?

I'm stuck with downloading QWK files for mail. I'm using BW to read those
QWK files, and compose replies, via reply packets. I just want to return to
some of that convenience, in keeping thos blow-hard messages around, until
I catch enough breath to blow back.


... James

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