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  • Re: New Offline Qwk Mail

    From MIKE POWELL@VERT/CAPCITY2/UUMOES to ERROL CASEY on Fri Mar 27 08:53:00 2026
    Didn't see that mentioned when I downloaded it. Will have to check it out. I hope absinthe bbs has SSH; so I can use slymail with it :-)

    Sounds like you can still use it with a BBS that doesn't have SSH or FTP
    QWK downloading. You would download the QWK packet the "old fashioned
    way" -- calling the BBS up in your terminal program and grabbing one --
    and then fire this new QWK reader up to read the downloaded packet.

    Mike
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MIKE POWELL on Fri Mar 27 13:04:02 2026
    Re: Re: New Offline Qwk Mail
    By: MIKE POWELL to ERROL CASEY on Fri Mar 27 2026 08:53 am

    Didn't see that mentioned when I downloaded it. Will have to check it out.
    I
    hope absinthe bbs has SSH; so I can use slymail with it :-)

    Sounds like you can still use it with a BBS that doesn't have SSH or FTP QWK downloading. You would download the QWK packet the "old fashioned way" -- calling the BBS up in your terminal program and grabbing one -- and then fire this new QWK reader up to read the downloaded packet.

    Yes, that's correct.

    Nightfox

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  • From amessyroom@VERT/ALTERANT to MIKE POWELL on Fri Mar 27 13:37:31 2026
    On March 27 2026, MIKE POWELL wrote:
    Didn't see that mentioned when I downloaded it. Will have to check it
    out. I
    hope absinthe bbs has SSH; so I can use slymail with it :-)

    Sounds like you can still use it with a BBS that doesn't have SSH or
    FTP
    QWK downloading. You would download the QWK packet the "old fashioned way" -- calling the BBS up in your terminal program and grabbing one
    --
    and then fire this new QWK reader up to read the downloaded packet.
    Yep. would just like some automation. But I can do it the old fashion way.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Sat Mar 28 12:25:08 2026
    Nightfox wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

    Sounds like you can still use it with a BBS that doesn't have SSH or FTP QWK downloading. You would download the QWK packet the "old fashioned way" -- calling the BBS up in your terminal program and grabbing one -- and then fire this new QWK reader up to read the downloaded packet.

    Very cool indeed. I started playing with it - my first thought was that
    it wouldn't take much Synchronet code to make it into a full FTN point.
    SlyPoint?



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Mar 28 18:41:23 2026
    Re: Re: New Offline Qwk Mail
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat Mar 28 2026 12:25 pm

    Very cool indeed. I started playing with it - my first thought was that it wouldn't take much Synchronet code to make it into a full FTN point. SlyPoint?

    I'm not entirely sure what that would mean; but, although my BBS is on a few FTN networks, I think I'm still not familiar with all the features of a FTN style network.

    Nightfox

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