Re: Money
By: Poindexter Fortran to Ed Vance on Wed Aug 15 2012 08:11:27
For me OFFLINE reading was much better than DIAL-UP ONLINE reading was.
I still swear by my offline reader. It wasn't until SlyEdit came along that I found an online full-screen editor I liked, but I've got an old DOS
I have always tended to read my BBS mail online, so I don't have much NI>experience with offline readers. What is the advnatage to using an offline NI>reader? I could see there being an advatnage back in the 80s and 90s, to NI>minimize phone charges by letting you just call in to exchange message packet
but that's not as much of an issue these days. One thing I would like, though
is something that can tell you which message areas have new messages written NI>you. When you log into a BBS, sometimes they tell you and sometimes they NI>don't, and I don't always remember which message areas I have posted in.
I tried using MultiMail some time ago, but for some reason I didn't really ge
into it - I think it was something about how it displayed the message boards NI>where the messages came from.. I seem to remember it displaying the short NI>message area codes used by the BBS rather than the full message area names.
Nightfox,
In 1994 when I got my ibm compatiable computer and was calling Local
BBS's using POTS I read echos until the BBS told me Time Was Up, and
then I'd call the BBS later on to read some more messages in the echos.
Sometime later I started using SLMR to read .QWK files from the BBS and
to send .REP files I written to the BBS, I was only on the POTS a few
minutes, which made the line free more than it had been in the past.
Even though I use the internet now I still use SLMR and MultiMail DOS
when I need to read a message that chokes SLMR.
I like reading messages Offline so much that I learned to use Mozilla Thunderbird to grab messages from my email account just so I don't have
to be connected to the Web Mail Server all the time I am reading and
writing email.
That is what I like doing, You can like how you do things, I'm not
looking over your shoulders telling you that what you are doing is
wrong. <GRIN>
Like MultiMail, SLMR shows messages written to me from any the echos I
use, in the first or second line of the echo list.
When I click on the line I see the Message Numbers, which are different
from each echo, and the entries on the list lets me guess which echo the
reply to me is from and Who wrote it.
For me to KNOW what echo it is from I just read the message where the
Echo Name is displayed.
As I said, I'm comfortable reading Offline, and I'm not trying to change
the way you enjoy using the BBS you use.
I'm glad You're here because you share what you know so we all can learn
stuff about Technology.
* SLMR 2.1a #T348 * Debuging: The other 90% of programming.
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