-=> Quoting Danny Ceppa to Nancy Backus on 05-25-06  21:38 <=-   
      
    NB> Hunh?  Programming?  Don't forget, I'm not a point, I'm a user...   
    NB> getting each packet manually after logging onto each bbs.  And then   
    NB> reading (or scanning, in the case of the extra packets) each packet   
    NB> offline, and creating the reply packet which then will need to be   
    NB> u/l'ed the next time I log onto the bbs...  Nothing's automated, so   
    NB> there's no programming involved... other than my internal   
    NB> "auto-pilot"...      
      
    DC> Unless you enjoy the loggon experience, you might consider    
    DC> pointing.  It automates the u/l-d/l     
      
   Yes, I know.  However, getting message packets isn't all I'm doing...   
   and, if I understand pointing correctly, I'd have to set up as a point   
   from more than one source to have my backups in place.   
      
   I don't mind the log-on experience, I like the different flavors of the   
   different boards, on most of the boards I frequent I can check to see   
   who else has been on that day, and I do play a couple of word and trivia   
   games on the different bbs's.  Even on Chowda, where I get my packets as   
   email attachments (and could, although it doesn't always work right,   
   send my replies via email, as at one point when the bbs itself wasn't   
   accessible I had to), I generally log on nightly, to play Scrabble and   
   to u/l any reply packet I might have.     
      
   I think I'd have to admit that I'm as addicted to the bbs itself as the   
   messaging..     When one of my favorites is down I go thru withdrawal   
   as much as I would if I couldn't get any messages anywhere...  :)   
      
   ttyl          neb   
      
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