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   alexander koryagin to Paul Quinn   
   you mean it is accessable?   
   16 Aug 12 23:40:13   
   
   Hi, Paul Quinn! How are you?   
   on Thursday, 16 of August, I read your messsage to Alexander Koryagin   
   about "you mean it is accessable?"   
      
    ak>>>> Probably you've heard of "Fidolook".   
    PQ>>> I just did a quick Google. Now I remember why I forgot it.   
    ak>> Outlook Express is a standard long-lived mailing software from   
    ak>> Microsoft Windows, at least up to Windows XP. And many don't like   
    ak>> it. But Outlook Express(+Fidolook) is very convenient for those   
    ak>> who uses Windows. However, I also have taken a glance in Google   
    ak>> and found out that it is difficult to find an English manual   
    ak>> reference to it.   
      
    PQ> I have seen it before, so it must have been mentioned in Fidonet   
    PQ> beforehand. When I saw it, I thought it was an over-engineered   
    PQ> answer to a question that had not been yet asked. That is, to put   
    PQ> it simply, the/any stock-standard email program would suffice   
    PQ> without all the overhead (even Evolution did it for me on my   
    PQ> netbook). It need not be that complicated for the unwashed masses   
    PQ> to conduct friendly email discourses with each other, in the   
    PQ> echoes.   
      
   Fidolook has many intricate features, but they all are not essential. There is   
   one main task for Fidolook -- it corrects the OE NNTP USENET mailer in such a   
   way that it is able to support the kludge Reply-To. Optionally, if a person   
   likes to spend some time to learn it, he can compose templates that provide   
   funny titles and footnotes. The idea is simple -- OE NNTP mailer is more   
   convenient than MSDOS FIDO soft. You have more lines, you see more.   
      
    PQ> However, I have long suspected that _some_ of your fellows conduct   
    PQ> more than Fido-ing with their software. If I'm wrong then I deserve   
    PQ> a =smack=.   
      
   Whatever they do, I think there is a hope, that people sooner or later will   
   understand that USENET style discussions are more cool than WEB ones. Such   
   programs like Fidolook allow to be original for every person.   
      
    ak>>>> [... Don't look inside the cake you are eating]   
    PQ>>> I do, if I don't know who the cook is. :)   
      
    ak>> Well, suppose you are eating in an American fast food snack-bar.   
    ak>> Like that one in which Obama treated Putin during his visit.   
    ak>> Neither you nor Obama know who is a cook there. Obama ate without   
    ak>> looking inside. So did Putin. ;-)   
      
    PQ> (I'm not aware of the 'incident'.) Probably pre-approved by the   
    PQ> official taste-testers, unseen by the media. :)   
      
    PQ> So, would you 'trust' Putin if he was the barbeque cook?   
      
   Well, barbeque is not a cake. I would probably be suspicious only in a Korean   
   snack-bar. They like dogs in somewhat different way than Europeans. ;-)   
      
    PQ> Dasvidaniya.   
      
   Do novyh vstrech.   
      
   [...Ferrum, dum candet, cudendum est]   
   Bye Paul!   
   Alexander (yAlexKo[]yandex.ru) + 2:5020/2140.91   
   fido7.jamnntpd 2012    
      
      
   --- FIDOGATE 5.1.7ds   
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