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Hello Mark - 

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CA>> I would not trade my freedom to upload/download FIDO
CA>> messages to/from any or all BBS that I chose to use. 

ml> you can't take a QWK from one BBS and upload replies to it
ml> on another BBS... they have to match... 

I maintain copies of all of my messages as pure ASCII text and
can add them to any QWK packet I want to. :-) 

CA>> Being a 'point' is comparable to voluntary servitude IMO.
CA>> I guess the notion of serfdom and empire building causes
CA>> sysops to push the 'point' thing as often as possible but
CA>> the glitter is not there for me. ;-) 

ml> you can be a point on as many BBS' as have the capability
ml> to set you up and are willing to do so... the messages and
ml> replies are also matched just like QWKs... 

That translates to: they dupe what I have. 

ml> there are other features, though, to being a point...
ml> automated file feeds and freqing files being one... netmail
ml> being another... 

I just drop the sysop a note if I need a FREQ. Netmail is
trashed with greater frequency than echo mail and is even read
in transit occassionally. (I used to read the BACKBONE echos) 

ml> not having to log in and go for the QWK stuff or have
ml> scripts to do it all for you is another... the mailers talk
ml> and know who each other is and then they send and receive
ml> the mail which, BTW, is already packaged up and waiting for
ml> you to come get... the whole scenerio is much faster than
ml> QWK could ever dream of being... 

With so few participants QWK is 'quick'. Newer machines package
and compres quite fast and I login using macros. :-) 

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