On 24 Nov 05  08:12:14, Nancy Backus got back to Maurice Kinal    
   -> Re: bragging rights   
      
    MK> I knew about the Dale Shipp part but didn't know all the particulars.    
    MK> I still see the occasional message from a BW system but usually offline   
    MK> is QWK these days.  I think that is far more common.   
      
    NB> Before George disappeared he had built into the reader the capability   
    NB> of reading and answering QWK packets.  And there were some other date   
    NB> issues with some of the BW doors at Y2K.  Hubby thinks he may have   
      
   I think the bulk of the problems were cured with Dales fix.     
      
    NB> found a fix for the date problems that works past the part that Dale   
    NB> had to fix for QWK packets.  But in any case, Dan and I are still using   
    NB> our BW readers without any problems at all, even though I am forced to   
    NB> be reading QWK packets, and he has a point system that includes the   
    NB> ability to still use his BW (using a program written by another   
    NB> die-hard BW-er who also has disappeared since).   
      
   I'd tell you how to use my setup, but yours is working, so why change?     
      
       
      
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