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- From: rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Offline Readers
- Message-ID: <s4cuXB4w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 11:58:15 CST
- References: <HJ1FXB1w165w@visavis.cam.org>
- Organization: Network XXIII - +1 608 222 9253
- Lines: 46
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- abolins@visavis.cam.org (August Abolins) writes:
-
- | Waffle isn't *that* difficult. I had more difficulty setting up
- | FrontDoor for automated calls, than setting up the Waffle file system
- | for UUCICO calls.
-
- Same here!
-
- | As a Sysop, I too prefer a FrontDoor/Usenet configuration than having
- | Waffle.
-
- Huh? I have ALL of this.... I use FrontDoor as my Fidonet mailer
- front-end to Waffle.
-
- | As a caller, I too prefer a (DOS) BBS that has Fidonet echoes, Nanet,
- | and Usenet newsgroups, *and* .QWK capability; that way I can enjoy
- | reading all those areas with my favourite .QWK reader.
-
- Any caller to my BBS can get those Fidonet echos you refer to... as for
- QWK, I've looked at it and the protocol is the worst kind of blasphemy
- that has been foisted upon Fidonet in a LONG time. All you have to
- do is run Deluxe2 to see that - not to mention that that offline-reader
- is the ONLY one with a character in its name not legal on "The Net"
- (Fido or Usenet)...
-
- | I doubt that Waffle-people will understand the advantages of .QWK from a
- | callers point of view.
-
- You do seem to have it in for Waffle-people, don't you?
-
- QWK is, in my opinion, a way for a lazy bum to get pseudo-net access
- without having to succumb to the usual pain of intelligent thinking
- required for a Usenet uucp connection and/or Fidonet point/node setup.
- (minimal, but ever-present smiley :-)
-
- I think net access is the right way to go - QWK should die a quick
- death. Only hope in offline readers is for a REAL offline interface
- to show up.
-
-
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