Sounds like something like Sempoint (which I am using to demonstrate
now) or Durango, would be your solution. Sempoint saves all QWK
messages for each echo in squish format.

I posted a modest video from screen-capture (my first ever!) on what Sempoint looks like here:

https://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/files/sempoint.avi ,or https://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/files/sempoint.zip

Those links are dead.

Maybe you should have uploaded to YouTube.

Yep. Totally nuts. I encountered the same issue with following a
thread or needing to refer to an earlier message. That's the reason I switched to Sempoint.

Is there a QWK and REP file merge tool ?

Today, I find that even a better solution is to use something like
OpenXP. See screenshots here:

The OpenXP documentation is in German. Therefore it is totally useless to me.

Even an NNTP solution and a reader of your choice to match your OS platform is a good option.

NNTP is getting too far from BBS's for me.

If I wanted SMTP/POP/NNTP then I would use Linux.

___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30
--- SBBSecho 3.13-Linux
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

Hello Marceline!

https://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/files/sempoint.avi ,or
https://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/files/sempoint.zip

Those links are dead.

Oops. I must have moved them in the last minute.

They are here now.

https://kolico.ca/fidonet/files/sempoint.avi ,or
https://kolico.ca/fidonet/files/sempoint.zip

Maybe you should have uploaded to YouTube.

Meh. Nah.

Is there a QWK and REP file merge tool ?

I have no idea.

Today, I find that even a better solution is to use
something like OpenXP. See screenshots here:

The OpenXP documentation is in German. Therefore it is
totally useless to me.

If you just rely on getting the program from sourceforge, then
yes, the English helps seems to be missing. :( I had some
guidance when I got started with Openxp by a fellow who wrote an
English "Startup User Guide".

If you visit https://openxp.uk/doc/ ..look for oxpguide.pdf

Just follow the steps in there for 1st-time use. Both linux and
windows instructions are included.

Even an NNTP solution and a reader of your choice to match
your OS platform is a good option.

NNTP is getting too far from BBS's for me.

Hmmm. Wrt olr messaging, I see nntp as fine improvement when a
BBS offers it.

If I wanted SMTP/POP/NNTP then I would use Linux.

BTW.. OpenXP supports those things too, but you don't have to
use that part.
--
../|ug

--- OpenXP 5.0.49
* Origin: The ONLY point that matters --> . <-- (1:153/757.21)

Hello August!

*** Sunday 14.03.21 at 15:14, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

If you visit https://openxp.uk/doc/ ..look for oxpguide.pdf

^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ahem :)

Did I get something wrong?

Nope :)

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.49
* Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)

I might as well get a NNTP add-on for Microsoft Outlook.

re nntp add-on for MS Outlook.. I tried it many years ago. It's
terrible. I wouldn't recommend that one to anybody.

NNTP is for Usenet. BBS puritans do not use it. It is like converting *.msg to emails (ie. an abomination).

___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30
--- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

On 27.03.2021 10:34, Marceline Jones wrote:

MJ> I might as well get a NNTP add-on for Microsoft Outlook.

AA> re nntp add-on for MS Outlook.. I tried it many years ago. It's
AA> terrible. I wouldn't recommend that one to anybody.

NNTP is for Usenet. BBS puritans do not use it.

NNTP is also for fidonet. Fidonet is not BBS, and BBS is not fidonet.

'Tommi

---
* Origin: - rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland - (2:221/1)

MJ> I might as well get a NNTP add-on for Microsoft Outlook.

AA> re nntp add-on for MS Outlook.. I tried it many years ago. It's
AA> terrible. I wouldn't recommend that one to anybody.

NNTP is for Usenet. BBS puritans do not use it.

NNTP is also for fidonet. Fidonet is not BBS, and BBS is not fidonet.

No, NTTP is used to gate messages in and out of Fidonet. This was originally done by frontend mailers. Like HTTP, NNTP is just a modern convenience that detracts from the BBS experience.

___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30
--- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

On 04.04.2021 19:20, Marceline Jones wrote:

No, NTTP is used to gate messages in and out of Fidonet.

Not true.

'Tommi

---
* Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/360)