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- What is Silver Xpress anyway?
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- Silver Xpress is an electronic mail and fax system designed for
- practically every bulletin board system or remote system currently
- available on the PC market.
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- Reading and replying to bulletin board mail is time consuming, often
- taking up your entire allocated time on a BBS. If you read lots of
- mail, spend a lot of time on-line replying to and entering new mail,
- and/or have large phone bills from calling computer bulletin board
- systems (BBS's), then Silver Xpress is here for you!
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- With Silver Xpress, you can collect mail in an organized manner and
- store it on your personal computer. Once you have collected it, you
- can log off and begin reading your mail.
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- Silver Xpress scans for mail from pre-selected message areas (often
- called forums, conferences or echos). After it finishes scanning for
- mail, it will present the results to you. At this point, you can decide
- "How much Mail" you wish to collect using the unique Silver Xpress
- bundling commands called Flex Select<tm>.
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- Flex Select <tm> collects or "bundles" the mail into a compressed format
- ready for downloading to your PC. This compressed file is called an
- Xpress mail packet. Once you have downloaded the Xpress mail packet to
- your PC, you can log off and use the interactive Silver Xpress Off-line
- Mail/Fax Reader program to read and reply to your mail.
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- This is where the fun begins! The Silver Xpread Reader is the most
- advanced system of its kind. Yet it is very easy to use. The Xpress
- Reader, as most people call it, will recognize the Xpress Mail packet
- you just downloaded and present the mail to you in very friendly manner.
- At this point you can read, create new messages to your friends, and
- reply to your friends. There is a lot more to Silver Xpress, and trying
- it out is the best way to find out all it can do to save you money.
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- To get started, find a bulletin board system that offers the Silver
- Xpress system as a service to you, a communication program with
- download and upload capabilities, and a file compression system such
- as PKZip, PAK, ARC, ZOO, or LHARC. File compression systems are also
- called archival systems or archivers.
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- You can do this with any Xpressable BBS on which you are a user.
- Ask the BBS sysop if their system is set up to support Xpress.
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- In summary, the Xpress system lets you do the following:
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- a) Select your favorite mail conferences,
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- b) scan for your new mail,
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- c) bundle the mail into Xpress packet format,
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- d) compress the bundle using your favorite archiver,
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- e) transfer the Xpress packet to your PC using a standard file
- transfer protocol such as Xmodem, Ymodem, or Zmodem,
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- f) use the special Xpress Reader program after logging off to read
- and reply to the new mail,
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- g) log back on the same BBS to upload the reply packet if you have
- created mail,
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- g) repeat from the beginning.
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- Silver Xpress is fun to use but also has value by saving you time and
- money. Try it out! Your electronic mailing will never be the same!
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