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- From: kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: .QWK mail reader for Waffle
- Message-ID: <4B28VB7w165w@iowegia.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 00:03:14 CST
- References: <2JLXVB3w165w@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.
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- nrc@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (N. Richard Caldwell) writes:
-
- > Yes, passable. I've been using it since it's been available. Although
- > it leaves a lot to be desired, it has been servicable and my callers have
- > gotten a lot of use out of the it.
-
- Well, glad it has helped someone. You definatelt had better luck than
- I with Wafmail.
-
- > No, I mean "just about any BBS." What I'm suggesting would be
- > compatible with QWK doors already in service in the DOS BBS world and
- > others that could developed for the USENET world. What you're suggesting
- > would be compatible only with "RNEWS doors" which would probably never
- > see the see the light of day outside the USENET world.
-
- I'm not too concerened about outside the USENET world. I have no desire
- to write a Bill Clinton-everything-to-everyone off-line reader system.
- But, what I am suggesting has been altered somewhat. See below.
-
- > What would the advantage of that be? RNEWS may be an even worse
- > format for offline message batches than QWK. RNEWS doesn't allow
- > for the difference between mail and news and doesn't provide any of
- > the basic facilities for user interaction with the BBS that QWK does
- > (news, bulletins, new files, board id, welcome, goodbye, subscribe,
- > unsubscribe). Add to that the fact that there are currently no
- > true offline RNEWS readers and there will never be as many as there
- > are QWK readers. No offense, but it sounds like you're talking about
- > a big effort to reinvent the wheel for no good reason.
-
- Naw, the wheel exists, C-news overview format. It's used by threaded
- news readers, which do exist in true form. Rys has done excellent work
- with his HellDiver packet format, and that is what I am going to
- support. It does allow for the difference between mail and news, and it
- is based on C-news overview format. The "basic facilities" of QWK you
- describe seem more like bells and whistles to me, not neccessary for an
- off-line reader. Except maybe subscribe and unsubscribe, which isn't
- such a bad idea.
-
- --
- Kevin Houle kjhoule@iowegia.uucp
-