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echo: bluewave
to: Nancy Backus
from: Dan Ceppa
date: 2005-07-15 22:15:14
subject: Here I am, lost as us

On 13 Jul 05  18:38:00, Nancy Backus got back to DAN CEPPA 
-> Re: Here I am, lost as us

 DC> I don't use a BW door.  Or, maybe I do??!!  OMX translates the JAM 
 DC> packets back and forth for me.  

 NB> I think that OMX acts as a BW door for you.  As a point, you aren't
 NB> really dealing with quite the same issues as those of us using the bbs
 NB> directly do...   

Such as?  


 NB> The native BW packets didn't have the Y2K date problem, as the
 NB> structure was different, which is why Dale Shipp's fix is just for the
 NB> QWK .rep packets, not the BW .new reply packets.

Well, OMX is for native BW.  I've been using it for probably 10 
years or more now.  I wish I could contact the author, but he's 
long since disappeared.  


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