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Skriven 2005-02-27 00:45:06 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Tom Walker
Ärende: Off line Readers
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TOM WALKER wrote to ALL, "Off line Readers"

 TW> Wel lI finally found out why I have an Aversion to Offline
 TW> Readers. I am too STUPID to use them. After many years of
 TW> urging I decided to download three Freeware versions to give it
 TW> a try .I picked Bluemail, multimail, and SLMR
 TW> Well al ldid no t go well. I couldn't get blue to even admit I
 TW> had any .qwk packets for it to look and Multimail said there
 TW> were packets but would not unpack.
 TW> I figured I might have problems because were written by the NIX
 TW> crowd. They particularly delight and go out of their way to
 TW> make their programs understandable/ Some sort of Inside joke I
 TW> guess. SLMR did just fine. I opened one packet and read some
 TW> mail and made up a couple of replies. Well Guess what I
 TW> couldn't get the .rep packet. The docs were basically worthless
 TW> and NO where in the Program set up or on my BBS setup could I
 TW> find any mention of designating a directory to find .qwk/.rep
 TW> packets. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5

Tom, Tom, Tom... Feel any better now? You speak of a BBS setup. If you're smart
enough to setup a BBS, chances are something minuscule is keeping you from
success with the OLMR. But you should know that by now if you had the patience
to rig a BBS. If your online time is unrestricted, you may not need the
convenience of an OLMR, but I doubt I'd ever go back to online messaging. Quite
frankly, I'd have to relearn how to do a lot of things without one.

It's up to you. If you need help setting up particularly Blue Wave, or
Multimail check out the BLUEWAVE or OFFLINE echoes respectively.(I think I have
the tags right.)  The rest come a distant second if you ask me, (I've tried a
lot of them.) but these two are solid performers, and rock solid in their
execution. It sounds like you are one or two setup steps away from pure relief.

Because you likely visit Docs via the I-Net, and there is likely many sockets
available to accommodate your type of call, time is not as restricted as it
would be on a direct dial-up connection. Then I'd suggest you go with what
works for you, but if you want some REAL flexibility, and convenience, I'd
suggest you stick with it for another couple of setup steps.


... I couldn't care less about apathy.
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