Hello, Mark, it is a great day here.


 ML> the ^aMSGID and ^aREPLY lines don't care whether you are doing stuff
 ML> online or offline... they are a function of the message creation tool.

 This and all that followed is a nice post, well documented. What I meant
 by not using them was that when off-line, if the ^aMSGID would be used,
 and if the message was not in the present packet.QWK, it would be
 useless, as in my use of the system. In Montreal, there is another BBS
 that I occasionaly DUN to and as it is not used much, I then read the
 mail on-line and at times will use that threading trigger. It works
 great, as you wrote.

 ML> offline mail readers and doors is that their authors would not
 ML> determine where such functions should be done and that these methods of
 ML> offline mail are shoehorned into fidonet in a close to a halfassed
 ML> manner as can be.

 That Juxta BBS and Bluewave are doing it right. This fellow George
 Hatchew did a nice PRG. My version is dated 1992 and I use it still on
 Doc's Place daily.


 ML> .. halfassed is better than noassed, though...

        Right !

 ML> this problem would never have been if folk using fidonet would have
 ML> embraced fidonet methods rather than imposing other network's methods
 ML> and functions on fidonet.
 ML> i won't even get into it about those developers who would not support
 ML> things in the spirit of the specification but instead worked to stir
 ML> things up and specifically cause problems.

 I will not either and for a more specific reason. I obviously do not
 know enough to comment. I am a bare user, period. I remember years gone
 by, when Ham guys from Vancouver started this all using 2m radios.
 Around 1982 IIRC. I got into it a few years later, 85, and the TX/RX was
 at +/- 150 bauds. We have come a long way. I was then as today,
 comunicating all over the world without knowing the inside gen. But
 being VE2NIC, I was able to rig up all that was required and I had a
 ball as of today too.

 I obviously am not on the same level or even near your level )\/(ark,
 but I really enjoy this BBSing and all that I have learned from guys
 like you and a few others. Many others !

 Keep it up, I appreciate comments like the above.
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