Hey Nancy!

Nov 24 13:12 05, Nancy Backus wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 NB> Before George disappeared he had built into the reader the capability 
 NB> of
 NB> reading and answering QWK packets.  And there were some other date
 NB> issues with some of the BW doors at Y2K.  Hubby thinks he may have 
 NB> found
 NB> a fix for the date problems that works past the part that Dale had to
 NB> fix for QWK packets.  But in any case, Dan and I are still using our 
 NB> BW
 NB> readers without any problems at all, even though I am forced to be
 NB> reading QWK packets, and he has a point system that includes the 
 NB> ability
 NB> to still use his BW (using a program written by another die-hard 
 NB> BW-er
 NB> who also has disappeared since).

Right.  However that is only half the problem seeing you need a BBS to
connect to which can provide the properly formatted output (to you) and
also create the proper output from your input to the rest of the Fido
world.  Without BBS support BW and QWK (all Fido formats for that matter)
are totally useless to anyone, including you.  Any network, Fido included,
requires a group effort to make it work and it is painfully obvious that
99.999999999999999999999999999% of the users out there in the cold, cruel
world don't have or want any of the formats including the people who came
up with these formats.  You say above that this seems to be the case.

 NB> Well, yes, of course...  :)  I got a good deal when I got him.  Not
 NB> always the easiest to live with, but a) who is, and b) we've learned 
 NB> to
 NB> work on that sort of stuff, both of us.

Sounds like a solid plan to me.

 NB> And
 NB> he's been very supportive, btw, with that agency mess, and even 
 NB> before.

That always helps for sure.  I could have used some of that a few years ago.

Life is good,
Maurice

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