-=> JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to HOLGER GRANHOLM <=-   
      
    JA> I, as a HAM, could theoretically get a message out, but it would be   
    JA> verbal and passed through others. With Winlink linked via radio,   
    JA> an email could leave my laptop, go through the HAM, through the radio   
    JA> network to a place that DOES have Internet service, then be delivered   
    JA> to their family in Chicago.   
      
    JA> Again, in theory. :-)   
      
   Winlink has features that a lot of hams don't seem to know about.   
      
   1.  Peer-peer mode - this allows the passing of messages directly between   
   stations with no Internet use at all.  Most useful for a wide area EMCOMM net   
   or point to point link between two stations handling traffic for a large scale   
   emergency.   
      
   2.  RF forwarding.  There is a newer mode in RMS Express where if the RMS   
   mailbox (the place you normally exchange Winlink mail with) loses Internet   
   connectivity, you can instruct it to forward email via RF to a more distant RMS   
   which does have Internet.   
      
      
   ... We put the "k" in "kwality."   
   --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49   
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