Top Document: alt.usenet.offline-reader FAQ (01/02) intro Previous Document: a.u.o intro: Other sources Next Document: a.u.o intro: Overview See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge using QWK for Internet mail or Usenet is like using wax crayons for all your business correspondence. it'll get your message across, but only to those people who don't throw it away without opening it. this is because QWK has small limits on certain essential headers, and does not allow certain other essential ones. some QWK packers try to compensate by recreating the headers and removing the truncated data, but such efforts are prone to failure. of course, some formerly-QWK packages also can ignore the truncated headers and use full headers in the body of the text -- which they correctly manipulate, just like any other correct newsreader. it's nice that these authors have started to catch up to the rest of the crowd. but since this can be done only by ignoring the QWK headers, they can not be seriously referred to as QWK messages anymore. User Contributions:Top Document: alt.usenet.offline-reader FAQ (01/02) intro Previous Document: a.u.o intro: Other sources Next Document: a.u.o intro: Overview Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: auofaq@locutus.ofB.ORG
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