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   ** On Saturday 03.06.23 - 21:33, you wrote to me:   
      
    AA>> Pointing can be faster.  With OXP, the command to poll   
    AA>> are three keystrokes:  N A    
      
    DC> Well, that's not a huge concern of mine.  Doesn't take me   
    DC> much more than that to login to the BBS and grab a QWK   
    DC> packet.   
      
   I was "used to" doing the Syncterm + Multimail and/or Sempoint     
   method too.  The feeling was "OK.. this is BBSing and that's     
   the way things get done".  But OPX provided a different     
   (primarily faster and including better message management)     
   experience that I was looking for.   
      
      
    DC> So, I did give it a look a couple days ago.  I didn't get   
    DC> very far. [...] Really strange stuff there.  Could I learn   
    DC> it with some time/study/reading? Sure.  But there isn't   
    DC> anything that makes that worth my while, at this point.   
      
   Sorry to hear that.  It's been a while (4 years now?) since I     
   first launched OPX.  My first version was many interations     
   prior to the current version. I don't recall anything "less     
   intuitive" about it. However, I *did* have the advantantage of     
   a USER's GUIDE that a fellow OXP User/Tester wrote. That guide     
   might still be helpful to a certain degree. I'd recommend you     
   take a look at it.  See  https://openxp.uk/doc/   
      
      
    AA>> For me, it's the database-like storage of messages   
    AA>> following a poll.  Unlike QWK were you have to keep track   
    AA>> of each [...]   
      
    DC> Yes, understood, but if you run a BBS, you already have   
    DC> all that.  I can see this being a decent option for a non-   
    DC> Sysop though.   
      
   Right. Most sysops would see no point, pun intended, ;)       
   ..since they've already vested a lot of time in managing a bbs.   
      
   But OXP is not just an FTN reader.  It can so NNTP, POP, IMAP     
   and has modest built in GPG support too.   
      
      
    DC> That doesn't fit how I'm used to doing things.  It may   
    DC> suit others very well, I'm sure, but for me....  can't   
    DC> find any reason to switch to this from BBS/QWK.  A big   
    DC> part of that is the learning curve on how to use it; I   
    DC> just don't have the time or desire for that, at least   
    DC> right now.   
      
   At the beginning, I had convinced myself that the only way I     
   (as a user) was going to participate in BBS messaging was via a     
   Windows GUI.  I was revisiting Sempoint, for example. But     
   honestly, the console UI of OXP gradually grew on me and it     
   truly emerged as the best experience for me. There is an     
   resistance to anything new and different.   
      
      
    DC> Thanks for the response to my question(s), though, it's   
    DC> appreciated.   
      
   OK.   
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