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Skriven 2010-09-24 10:51:00 av ED VANCE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av AUGUST ABOLINS
Ärende: QWK REP blues..
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AA> EV> Do You use SEMPOINT now?     (You knew I'd ask, didn't You?)
AA> EV> ;-)

AA>I don't use it now.  Since I have internet readily available now, I prefer t
AA>use the nntp (newsgroup) method.  When I was still dialup my feed directly,
AA>sempoint was my main tool for managing echomail.  I fell in love with it whe
AA>discovered that it could store all the messages in a unified database format
AA>In other words, I always had access to ANY message at any time, and I didn't
AA>have to worry about knowing which "packet" it belonged to.

August,

Your comment above about You "stored all the messages in a database"
had my mind thinking of "how large of a hard drive did You have"
back when You used SEMPOINT to hold Many Many .QWK packets?

I just Save the Messages I "Think"TM I would want to refer back to at a
later time in Text Files so that I can use LIST or EDIT to read it again
or to Copy and Paste from the older message.

I keep tabs on the text file size so it doesn't get too large for LIST
or EDIT to use.

As the file gets to 500k or 600k I will start another text file using
the same name but I increase the number at the end of the filename one
count.

In 1994, when I specified what Hardware/Software I wanted in/on the 486
box being built for me I thought a 330 MB hard drive was BIG ENOUGH for
what I would do with the box.

The PC's advertised in Late 1993 were being sold with 200 MB or
250(225?) MB Hard Drives in them, so I wanted a Bit More Space that I
thought I could afford to pay for.

How SEMPOINT handles Taglines is important to me, as I Love to "Steal"
GOOD Taglines from the messages I read for later Reuse.

I also have "Made Up" some of the Taglines in the file.    ;-)

I just recemtly changed the character used at the beginning of the
Tagline line to see if it helped James Bradley when He wanted to "Swipe"
one of my "Stolen" Taglines.

I will have to find out how SEMPOINT's Tagline line is configured and
get back with James for His comments to see if He has any trouble
"Swipeing" Taglines from SEMPOINT messages!

Last night I got it from Shawns TINYSBBS, I'll run it through my
Virus/Spyware scanning routine I normally do then I'll Instal it.

Look for SEMPOINT above the Origin line.

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