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|    August Abolins to Martin Foster    |
|    point softare PROS and CONS    |
|    02 May 19 17:48:10    |
      MSGID: 2:221/360 5ccb032a       REPLY: 2:240/2188.31@fidonet d809e6c7       PID: JamNNTPd/OS2 1.3 20190208       TID: GE/2 1.2       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: 0300       On 02/05/2019 2:37 a.m., Martin Foster : August Abolins wrote:              > Comments       > ========       >       > [Apoint] CONS       > -------------       > "- JAM support broken. Only Apoint message base (AMF) supported."       >       > way back in 2003, I said this: "APoint will handle a JAM message base       > that APoint itself has created ......". As development stopped       > sometime in 2001, I'm assuming that my statement from 2003 is still       > correct. However, we've recently discovered a cosmetic issue when       > converting an existing AMF format message area to JAM format. Based on       > all that, it may be better to say something along the lines of       > "Cosmetic issue after converting an AMF format area to JAM format".       > I'll leave it up to you to decide what to do :-)              So.. "Apoint JAM base = Proprietary + Fails to display Quantity of messages in       Area list.               ?              To me, "cosmetic" would imply an affect on something that works but renders       differently.              In this case, message count is completely missing. :(              --- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.        * Origin: - nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland - (2:221/360)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 19/10 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 226/17 229/354       SEEN-BY: 229/426 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 292/854       SEEN-BY: 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 393/68 396/45 423/120 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 221/360 1 280/464 229/426           |
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