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- Item 5329668 29-May-90 23:45PDT
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- From: D5295 Reseach SW Design, D Goldman,PRT
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- To: D4384 US Voting Mach, Sarner, Calvin,PRT
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
- JESSA Vartanian, Jessa
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- Sub: More re MacApp BB
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- Greg --
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- You know, an advantage of MacApp.Tech$ being a mail address rather than a
- bulletin board is that you can have your Mac automatically dial up and receive
- your mail without your attention.
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- If AppleLink added one more feature, this would be possible with a bulletin
- board as well. The feature (which I previously mentioned in passing, but now
- see as a really useful idea) is "download everything from this BB folder that
- has been posted since I last accessed it".
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- Bell/Whistle #1: allow me to preselect a bunch of BB folders (from my
- "Personal" menu) and then tell my computer to dial up and perform the above
- operation at a specified time (as you currently can for mail).
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- Bell/Whistle #2: the mainframe could compact the relevant memos on the fly
- (into an AppleLink Package, maybe) prior to downloading them to me.
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- Observation: this feature would allow us to convert MacApp.Tech$ to a BB with
- no loss of current functionality, and eliminate the present need for one hardy
- soul to create weekly archives.
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- -- Dave
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