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   Hello Martin,   
      
   On 16.03.19, you wrote:   
      
    MF> I can recommend OpenXP :-)) Versions available for Windows and Linux from   
    MF> https://openxp.uk Source is also available.   
      
    MF> If you do decide to have a look, I would *STRONGLY* advise you to grab   
    MF> a copy of "oxpguide.pdf" and read sections 1 and 2 before proceeding   
    MF> with the installation and configuration.   
      
      
   I believe I had a quick look at OpenXP a little while ago. It has a   
   terminal/DOS look to it, right?  I am not drawn to that.   
      
   I prefer a windows gui.   
      
   The one other gui-based point program I used quite happily was SemPoint.   
      
   It was abolutely brilliant. Everything worked. I used it for several years.   
   One neat feature of SemPoint was its ability to handle QWK, PKT, JAM (plus   
   some others) all simultaneously, depending on the available feed-style from   
   the systems you were calling. All the messages were stored in a database   
   style, so searches were very efficient. Threading was amazing, making traceing   
   a topic so easy.     
      
   I seem to recall that its compiled nodelist was pretty amazing too.   
   Searchable. A user could just select the address in a current message and the   
   nodelist details would pop up.   
      
   At the time, I already had a working BBS and a mailer configured, so SemPoint   
   was just fine as a reader only.   I did not encounter any bugs. It worked so l   
   flawlessly, I used it as part of an offline solution for visitors to my dialup   
   BBS.  I used it conjunction with Frontdoor/APX.   
      
   To have a SemPoint solution today with tcp/ip, would it be as simple as adding   
   Binkd in a batch file or something?   
      
      
   semp226.zip     820K       
      
   -=> SemPoint v2.26 for Windows <=-  FREEWARE   
   SemPoint is the 1st Offline Reader for   
   Windows useful to both BBS Users and to   
   FidoNet Points (or Sysops). It can   
   handle QWK, BlueWave, Mc-Link's X)press   
   and Usenet newsgroups mail packets, as   
   well as permanent message bases in *.MSG   
   (Fido), Hudson, Squish, JAM end EzyCom   
   formats! EASY to use, but powerful!   
   Built-in zip/unzip, UUEncode/Decode,   
   PGP shell, Rich Text display feature,   
   message sorting, TIC generator.   
   Multilingual: English, Italian, French,   
   Spanish, Catalan, Swedish, German and   
   Dutch editions available!   
      
      
      
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