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- From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Offline Readers
- Message-ID: <930109.231539.0Y6.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 23:15:39 MST
- References: <1icma8INNnse@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <930107.083802.2H8.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> <gfwTrAKPBh107h@mala.proteus.qc.ca>
- Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- ranfry@mala.proteus.qc.ca (Ranfry) writes:
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- > russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
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- >>ranfry@mala.proteus.qc.ca (Ranfry) writes:
- >
- >>> Look will you people shut up! I have TOLD you what is needed, forget the
- >
- >>which is: an offline reader for Usenet - right?
-
- > NO!, what I wanted, and asked for is a version of Waffline that
- > worked with Waffle v1.65 for when I picked up Waffline v1.0 it did not
- > seem to work.
-
- I know that Rhys' packet format will include QWK as a subset - so even if
- wafline doesn't make it this year, hopefully an at-least-as-functional
- package should.
-
- those who are writing generators - are you including mail-only QWK for
- cases like this in the first batch? Rhys - will the first reader you put
- out handle it? anyone else already writing readers for it?
-
- [rest of response, including `I see no philosophy here', in email, of course]
- --
- Russell Schulz russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca ersys!rschulz Shad 86c
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