-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 12-04-05  18:21 <=-   
      
    MK> Right.  However that is only half the problem seeing you need a BBS to   
    MK> connect to which can provide the properly formatted output (to you) and   
    MK> also create the proper output from your input to the rest of the Fido   
    MK> world.  Without BBS support BW and QWK (all Fido formats for that   
    MK> matter) are totally useless to anyone, including you.  Any network,   
    MK> Fido included, requires a group effort to make it work and it is   
    MK> painfully obvious that 99.999999999999999999999999999% of the users out   
    MK> there in the cold, cruel world don't have or want any of the formats   
    MK> including the people who came up with these formats.  You say above   
    MK> that this seems to be the case.    
      
   Well... if all the BBS's are gone, then so is Fido, and my reason for   
   needing to use the BW reader and any form (including QWK) of message   
   packet...  So far, that isn't the case, thankfully...  :)   
      
   Except for email, I have very little to do with the Internet itself.    
   Telnet over the internet to get to the BBS's would also be unnecessary   
   were there no BBS's, of course.  Everything I do on the I'net I also am   
   doing in DOS at this point...  When that* dies, I suppose Linux might be   
   the way my Wizard will take us... assuming that I still care about using   
   the I'net and such...  :)   
      
   ttyl          neb   
      
   ... I need to start procrastinating, sometime soon.   
      
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