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   Hello Martin,   
      
   On 13.03.19, you wrote:   
      
    AA>> WinPoint seems to be quite a fine all-in-one program for supporting   
    AA>> echomail access without needing any other fancy FTN support programs.   
      
    MF> Yes it is but it's a bit buggy here 'n there and unfortunately the bugs   
    MF> will probably never be fixed :-((   
      
   Other than the char-case issues with the arealist,what else are you finding   
   buggy?  I am still quite new to WinPoint so I am not sure what else I may   
   encounter.   
      
   I do seem to have a problem with using the Request feature.     
   It seems to always build a request to 0:8/15.  I don't know where the number   
   comes from. So, Instead, I resorted to creating my filefix requests manually   
   and directly in netmail.   
      
   But now that I have subscribed to getting the nodelist automatically from my   
   boss, I don't expect to be needing the built-in Request anymore.  But it sure   
   would be nice if Request wasn't broken.   
      
   Apoint and Beemail came really close to being good Windows-GUI programs for   
   regular use.     
      
   Apoint was an all-in-one complete point system.  But it turned out to be   
   unreliable and crashed or locked up unexpectedly.     
      
   Beemail still looks pretty good even today (althought the graphics are a bit   
   dated). The transport protocols are built-in and ready to operate. But it   
   needs extra configuration for a tosser, scanner, and archivers before it is   
   useful.   
      
   WinPoint gets it right and makes it ready-to-go.   
      
      
    AA>> I am currently switching back and forth between WinPoint and the   
    AA>> newsgroup (nntp) method with Thunderbird. Both have advantages and   
    AA>> disadvantages. I was thinking of writing up a comparison of those.   
      
    MF> A comparison would be nice, thanks :)   
      
   That would have to go on my ToDo list!  LOL.   
      
      
      
    MF> I've never used the NNTP method with Thunderbird, perhaps you could   
    MF> consider posting some instructions on how to do it in a separate post.   
      
   I co-created a write-up just for that very matter several years ago with   
   another user/sysop. Since then, my home computer situation has changed a few   
   times and the original doc could be residing on one of those.  The doc was   
   posted for download at one time, but I can't remember how we distributed it.    
   And until I can find my copy of the doc, I can't remember the sysop I was   
   working with!  (My brain has two sysop names floating in my gray matter: Sean   
   Dennis, Mark Lewis.) ..but I can't be sure who is correct, or even if it was   
   someone else.    
      
      
   ../|ug   
      
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