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- From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: FAQ addition about QWK (was Re: Offline Readers)
- Message-ID: <930111.063449.2O7.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 06:34:49 MST
- Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- I have just mailed this to fenner@cs.psu.edu - if I've muffed up the
- wafline info, please correct it.
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- you might want to add two questions: (actually, PLEASE add two questions)
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- - how can I have waffle handle QWK mail for my users?
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- which could talk about wafmail, which only works with 1.64 unless you
- combine it with `explode' and `makebox' in a batch file
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- - how can I have waffle handle QWK news for my users
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- short answer: please don't do this to the rest of us
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- medium answer: you can't, really, without breaking something (either
- the news you send out or the software you expect users to have).
- QWK itself is more limiting than RFC-1036, and it shows.
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- the facts are:
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- your users don't want to use waffle, which is fine. some of them
- don't have DOS machines. some of them don't have disk space. this
- is no problem. of course, your users don't have a divine right to
- read news offline, either. if someone doesn't understand this,
- there will be a problem, definitely.
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- for news QWK as it stands just can't handle it.
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- also, mention Rhys' planned Helldiver packet format stuff, which
- includes QWK as an optional subset.
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- Russell Schulz russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca ersys!rschulz Shad 86c
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