DC>> But, it doesn't seem to return the favor by places {at}REPLY
 DC>> in messages it creates.  I thought it was just my setup, but
 DC>> yours seems to do the same thing.

 JP>  It is also my setup as on Doc's Place, I have not used them
 JP> at all. More than likely my way of doing things. And as I
 JP> now do all my FIDO -off-line-, these are useless to me.

the ^aMSGID and ^aREPLY lines don't care whether you are doing stuff online
or offline... they are a function of the message creation tool... or they
should be if they are not... the problem with many offline mail readers and
doors is that their authors would not determine where such functions should
be done and that these methods of offline mail are shoehorned into fidonet
in a close to a halfassed manner as can be... halfassed is better than
noassed, though...

now, the question is why halfassed? because of those very hidden control
lines... many bbs' don't even import them... many don't have any way of
supporting them... and then there's those that do support them but the
offline mail readers don't and folk actually see them and all their
"gunk" (as some call it)...

this problem would never have been if folk using fidonet would have
embraced fidonet methods rather than imposing other network's methods and
functions on fidonet... QWK was created in the RIME/PCRelay network...
iirc, bluewave was basically just a better QWK but still had/has many of
the same downfallings...

i won't even get into it about those developers who would not support
things in the spirit of the specification but instead worked to stir things
up and specifically cause problems... some of you use bbs' that runn
software that at least one of those folk wrote and he wrote it specifically
to NOT support ^aREPLY even though it does create ^aMSGID...

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