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- From: rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: offline readers
- Message-ID: <0VDuXB7w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 12:15:20 CST
- References: <GT+VrA4KBh107h@tedshom.nbn.com>
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- tpotter@tedshom.nbn.com (Ted Potter) writes:
-
- | A local BBS I know of recently decided to offer usenet/email
- | access to the users.
-
- | They then pass these to a program called MarkMail which turns
- | the messages into a qwk format. The user's then use a offline
- | mail reader to download the messages.
-
- This is apparently a Fidonet bbs carrying Usenet newsgroups;
- that is why they can create QWK packets without pain :-)
-
- | I would think if desired they could pass the messages to
- | waffle as well (the messages not the qwk formatted stuff)
-
- Sure - get a Usenet feed from them. They've got one feeding
- them; can't they feed you?
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