Hello Martin!
** On Monday 04.05.20 - 13:05, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:
AA>> When I drop in the archived nodelists into the DistribNL, WinPoint
AA>> magically unpacks them.
MF> I've never seen that happen here ?
HUH? Of course you have. It's even documented, by you. ;)
While WinPoint is loaded and running, and I drag and drop a noldelist
archive from the inbound directory to the DistribNL direcory, the NODELIST.Z##
file is automatically replaced by its unpacked equivalent
(and the original archive is gone).
AA>> WinPoint may be the better GUI-based point program compared to Apoint,
MF> Yes, it's a much more aesthetically pleasing GUI but it's such a great
MF> shame that all the bugs and issues will never be fixed. Perhaps someone
MF> should waft $$$$$$'s under Tim's nose ;)
I don't know who might have these wafts of $$$$$$'s that you mention,
especially at this covid/lockdown/stay-home time.
The hobby needs much greater appeal to make a point program project worth
the effort.
My guess is that the author lost the code since those many years ago.
Otherwise, abandoning a fine program like WinPoint does not make much
sense from a geek point of view. Any programmer/geek would love to
revisit old code and make adjustments.
I used to work on a computer called a MacroDataII. It used paper tape to
read a program. I was responsible for programming that darn thing.
Programming was all in octal! I wrote a decompiler to decode old tapes.
I'd love to see that code again!
AA>> but I'd rather prefer to take the smoother ride that OpenXP offers.
MF> Yeah me too and we have a very responsive developer.
I am gradually using OpenXP a bit more for some select newsgroups (nntp).
Infact, it can work rather well for some othernets that have an nntp feed!
Dovenet (which is NOT ftn-based, but has an nntp alternative) looks and
operates quite well in oxp.
Scinet, Whispernet, Spooknet, do not cooperate with oxp as a nntp feed.
But they look great using Thunderbird.
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