Hey Nancy!   
      
   Nov 24 13:12 05, Nancy Backus wrote to Maurice Kinal:   
      
    NB> Before George disappeared he had built into the reader the capability    
    NB> of   
    NB> 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    
    NB> found   
    NB> a fix for the date problems that works past the part that Dale had to   
    NB> fix for QWK packets.  But in any case, Dan and I are still using our    
    NB> BW   
    NB> readers without any problems at all, even though I am forced to be   
    NB> reading QWK packets, and he has a point system that includes the    
    NB> ability   
    NB> to still use his BW (using a program written by another die-hard    
    NB> BW-er   
    NB> who also has disappeared since).   
      
   Right.  However that is only half the problem seeing you need a BBS to connect   
   to which can provide the properly formatted output (to you) and also create   
   the proper output from your input to the rest of the Fido world.  Without BBS   
   support BW and QWK (all Fido formats for that matter) are totally useless to   
   anyone, including you.  Any network, Fido included, requires a group effort to   
   make it work and it is painfully obvious that 99.999999999999999999999999999%   
   of the users out there in the cold, cruel world don't have or want any of the   
   formats including the people who came up with these formats.  You say above   
   that this seems to be the case.   
      
    NB> Well, yes, of course...  :)  I got a good deal when I got him.  Not   
    NB> always the easiest to live with, but a) who is, and b) we've learned    
    NB> to   
    NB> work on that sort of stuff, both of us.   
      
   Sounds like a solid plan to me.   
      
    NB> And   
    NB> he's been very supportive, btw, with that agency mess, and even    
    NB> before.   
      
   That always helps for sure.  I could have used some of that a few years ago.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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