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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        * Origin: Pushkin's BBS (2:5020/2140.2)    |
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