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   Hello Martin!   
      
   ** On Monday 04.05.20 - 13:05, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    AA>> When I drop in the archived nodelists into the DistribNL, WinPoint   
    AA>> magically unpacks them.   
      
    MF> I've never seen that happen here ?   
      
   HUH?  Of course you have.  It's even documented, by you.  ;)   
      
   While WinPoint is loaded and running, and I drag and drop a noldelist     
   archive from the inbound directory to the DistribNL direcory, the     
   NODELIST.Z## file is automatically replaced by its unpacked equivalent     
   (and the original archive is gone).   
      
      
    AA>> WinPoint may be the better GUI-based point program compared to Apoint,   
      
    MF> Yes, it's a much more aesthetically pleasing GUI but it's such a great   
    MF> shame that all the bugs and issues will never be fixed. Perhaps someone   
    MF> should waft $$$$$$'s under Tim's nose ;)   
      
   I don't know who might have these wafts of $$$$$$'s that you mention,     
   especially at this covid/lockdown/stay-home time.   
      
   The hobby needs much greater appeal to make a point program project worth     
   the effort.   
      
   My guess is that the author lost the code since those many years ago.      
   Otherwise, abandoning a fine program like WinPoint does not make much     
   sense from a geek point of view.  Any programmer/geek would love to     
   revisit old code and make adjustments.   
      
   I used to work on a computer called a MacroDataII. It used paper tape to     
   read a program.  I was responsible for programming that darn thing.     
   Programming was all in octal! I wrote a decompiler to decode old tapes.      
   I'd love to see that code again!   
      
      
    AA>> but I'd rather prefer to take the smoother ride that OpenXP offers.   
      
    MF> Yeah me too and we have a very responsive developer.   
      
   I am gradually using OpenXP a bit more for some select newsgroups (nntp).     
   Infact, it can work rather well for some othernets that have an nntp feed!   
      
   Dovenet (which is NOT ftn-based, but has an nntp alternative) looks and     
   operates quite well in oxp.   
      
   Scinet, Whispernet, Spooknet, do not cooperate with oxp as a nntp feed.      
   But they look great using Thunderbird.   
      
      
     ../|ug   
      
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