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Skriven 2010-11-27 20:01:00 av Ed Vance (4155.windowsa)
     Kommentar till en text av August Abolins
Ärende: Sempoint
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Hi August,
On <Sat, 27 Nov 10>, you wrote me:

 AA> Ed Vance -> August Abolins said..

 EV>> I've learned SEM asks to delete a older .REP packet when
 EV>> I select "Export New Msgs..." option after clicking on 
 EV>> Msg
 EV>> Base.


 AA> Yes.. that's it!


 EV>> My problem with that is I can't remember if I sent the
 EV>> .REP out or not.

 AA> Yes.. While uploading remains a manual process, tracking the
 AA> uploads requires self-discipline.

 AA> I tended to use SEM this way: I would only export messages
 AA> only once per day. A benefit to that was that until the 
 AA> messages get exported, I can easily go 
 AA> back to any messages I wrote and re-edit them.  I could rarely
 AA> finish a reply when a particular thread/message interested me. 
 AA>  I would start one, put in my 
 AA> thoughts in a point fashion, and move on.  Then I would go
 AA> back to those "draft" messages and finish them off.  Then I do 
 AA> the Export and immediately 
 AA> schedule the upload.

Some nights I've stayed up too long reading and replying to messages and not 
having finished the messages in the echo/area and shut the computer down and 
maybe not using it again until the next night to read SEM messages.

SLMR just makes one .REP file for each BBS no matter if I closed one .QWK 
packet and opened another one, it is the same .REP file.

One advantage SLMR has that I haven't found in SEM is the reply messages are 
filed in a echo/area that I can read, save or edit before saving or even Kill 
if I so desire.

I;ve not seen this in Sempoint yet.

 EV>> WIthout a Log file "Ed's Head" can't remember if the .REP
 EV>> was sent out or not. ;-)

 EV>> And I don't have a log file.

 AA> Maybe you could use a simple paperpad/pen system for that
 AA> purpose.

Thanks for the suggestion but I probably couldn't find it in the clutter.

 EV>> The .REP file is automatically updated in SLMR and Saved
 EV>> when I exit the program.

 AA> I see your point.  SLMR uses the *same* REP packet between
 AA> sessions and each QWK packet has a specific .REP associated 
 AA> with it.  But SEM only creates one 

See above, one .REP per BBS is shared with other .QWK from the same BBS.

 AA> REP when you actually do an Export.  My recommended solution:
 AA> DO NOT EXPORT until you are ready to upload.  An advantage to 
 AA> that (over SLMR), you can 
 AA> download as many QWKs per BBS that you want without affecting
 AA> the "drafts" or replies you have in progress from other 
 AA> sessions/QWKs. Personally, I found the 
 AA> latter to be a greater advantage over managing each QWK / REP
 AA> pair of files.

I will have to try to get more organized using SEMs Export and Import features.

When I log on Doc's Place BBS via HTML i can see if SLMR has a .REP file,
With myself changing two things at the same time SEM and FTPing to a different 
BBS, I get really confused here in the computer shack.   ;-)

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  Ed


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