Subj : Re: topics.. let's hear
To   : Nil Alexandrov
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Fri Apr 05 2019 01:10 am

 -=> On 04-04-19  20:09,  Nil Alexandrov <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about topics.. let's hear <=-

 DS> Perhaps a lot of the world, but there are still old curmudgeons like
 DS> me. I am using the same desktop I have had for years and read my QWK
 DS> packets using BlueWave in a virtual XP window.  Don't intend to
 DS> change.   I don't have a mobile gadgets.  My cell phone is only used
 DS> to make voice calls in unusual situations, e.g. emergency or calling
 DS> home to check on an item on the grocery list.  It costs me about
 DS> US$5.00 per month.

 NA> Interestingly, the QWK workflow was never a trend in Z2, instead we
 NA> moved to the point systems when we needed to automatically download
 NA> echomail for offline reading. I'm still not sure whether points were
 NA> the thing in Z1 ever? 

Points were not as big in Z1 as they were in Z2.  Reasons had to do with
the differences in how the telephone companies charged for calls -- or
at least that is how it got explained to me.  I was a point for my first
few years, but used it to download into my Maximus/Squish data base and
then make a QWK packet from there to read in Bluewave.  But when I boss
node left fido, I was given a node number in the local net.  I still use
Maximus/Squish/QWK/Bluewave for messages.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)




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