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What is Silver Xpress anyway?
Silver Xpress is a electronic mail and fax system designed for
practically every bulletin board system or remote system currently
available on the PC market.
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!
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
then 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>.
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.
This is where the fun begins! The Silver Xpread Reader is the most
advance system of it's 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.
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:
a) Select your favorite mail conferences,
b) scan for your new mail
c) bundle the mail into Xpress packet format
d) compress the bundle using your favorite archiver
e) transfer the Xpress packet to your PC using a standard file
transfer protocol such as Xmodem, Ymodem, or Zmodem
f) use the special Xpress Reader program after logging off to read
and reply to the new mail
g) log back on the same BBS to upload the reply packet if you have
created mail.
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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