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   Hello August!   
      
   On 14.03.19 at 02:35, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:   
      
    AA> 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 :-((   
      
    AA> Other than the char-case issues with the arealist,what else are you   
    AA> finding buggy?  I am still quite new to WinPoint so I am not sure what   
    AA> else I may encounter.   
      
   - WinPoint sometimes crashes when you try to change the font   
   - Changes to some of the templates don't always "stick"   
   - After starting WinPoint and polling for mail, the mailer logfile         
     doesn't appear in the "Reports" folder until you exit and re-start       
     WinPoint   
   - Adding an archiver to the list of archivers doesn't work   
      
   There's probably more but those are the ones that immediately spring     
   to mind.   
      
    AA> I do seem to have a problem with using the Request feature.   
    AA> It seems to always build a request to 0:8/15.   
      
   Ah, that's because you didn't click the "Neu" button first ;-)   
      
    AA> I don't know where the number comes from.   
      
   Neither do I.   
      
    AA> So, Instead, I resorted to creating my filefix requests manually   
    AA> and directly in netmail.   
      
   Hmmmmm, you could have used the "Filearea Management" function for     
   that.   
      
    AA> But now that I have subscribed to getting the nodelist automatically from   
    AA> my boss, I don't expect to be needing the built-in Request anymore.  But   
    AA> it sure would be nice if Request wasn't broken.   
      
   It's not actually broken, it's just a bit messy.   
      
   Making file requests to systems other than my BossNode has to rate as     
   the most convoluted process ever but it can be done. Pleeeeez don't     
   ask me how :-))   
      
    AA> Apoint and Beemail came really close to being good Windows-GUI programs   
    AA> for regular use.   
      
    AA> Apoint was an all-in-one complete point system.  But it turned out to be   
    AA> unreliable and crashed or locked up unexpectedly.   
      
   I used APoint many years ago but I don't recall having any problems     
   with it. The only thing it didn't have was Fido-over-IP but there was     
   a plugin for that which worked very well.   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
      
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