> However I'll toss in a couple things I haven't seen mentioned yet. > * Offline mail readers. QWK or BlueWave, there might have been others. I did succinctly,

> However I'll toss in a couple things I haven't seen mentioned yet. > * Offline mail readers. QWK or BlueWave, there might have been others. I did succinctly, just a couple of minutes before you did :-) You are right nobody else had mentioned it yet at that point. Perhaps that's because Americans were more concerned about the BBS itself and purely local usage on BBSes with a large number of users, and less interested into FidoNet (or similar networks). Or a difference in eras.