Re: Re: New offline QWK mail
By: Rixter to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Apr 06 2026 06:57 am
I can imagine an offline mail reader would be good for travel. If you HAV see the messages. Sometimes you cannot always be connected. What QWK prog you use? We had starlink here for about a year at 120.00 a month. It was The spectrum cable ran a line out to the sticks here 5 years ago and 1gb service for 99.99 a month. I am very happy with it so far. We are in the mountains and whenever weather tanked so did the starlink and we had to mobiles mobile hotspot for back up and at best it was 10mbsp down and 1.8 best. Maybe it was mbps :) better than nothing. I think T-mobile was the one we used ever. The cable RARELY gives us issue and we just added a hot plan to our verizon phone account now for just in cases. I can see the QW coming in handy for quick message grabs and sends during bad weather even travel.
Rixter
Yes, but zmodem is a bit flaky over TCP sometimes.
One protocol which is good for asynchronous transfer and "sometimes on" connecctions is NNCP. It is based on UUCP, Unix-Unix copy, but incorporates encryption and can be mixed with over-the-wire transfers and physical transf f media.
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