🚀 go-pugleaf

I have just mailed this to fenner@cs.psu.edu - if I've muffed up the
wafline info, please correct it.



you might want to add two questions:  (actually, PLEASE add two questions)

  - how can I have waffle handle QWK mail for my users?

which could talk about wafmail, which only works with 1.64 unless you
combine it with `explode' and `makebox' in a batch file

  - how can I have waffle handle QWK news for my users

short answer: please don't do this to the rest of us

medium answer: you can't, really, without breaking something (either
the news you send out or the software you expect users to have).
QWK itself is more limiting than RFC-1036, and it shows.

the facts are:

  your users don't want to use waffle, which is fine.  some of them
  don't have DOS machines.  some of them don't have disk space.  this
  is no problem.  of course, your users don't have a divine right to
  read news offline, either.  if someone doesn't understand this,
  there will be a problem, definitely.

  for news QWK as it stands just can't handle it.

also, mention Rhys' planned Helldiver packet format stuff, which
includes QWK as an optional subset.
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Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c