Hello Nicholas Boel!

I didn't spend much time with OpenXP. Once I realized the
UTF-8 support was limited to a one way direction, I lost
interest. Great software, just not for me.

UTF-8 isn't everything though. For the most part, english,
french, german, swedish, finnish are supported in the basic
char set, I believe.

Most of the "cons" listed for WinPoint seem to have been
addressed, as I didn't see any, if not most of those
listed when testing it. It's also possible the link you
provided is very old and hasn't been updated in awhile.
This would probably be the winner if I were at all
interested in being a point.

That was *my* link! ;) I created that table of pros and cons.
Yes.. since the release of Winpoint 415, the table is much
outdated now.

One of my main interests is current development. If it's
abandonware, I'm not interested unless the source is
available.

Yes.. Abandonware for Apoint is disappointment. It wasn't a
bad point system at all.
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On Sat, 4 May 2024 22:41:00 -0400, August Abolins -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

UTF-8 isn't everything though. For the most part, english,
french, german, swedish, finnish are supported in the basic
char set, I believe.

You're right, it's not. However, it's definitely something I look for (among other things) in a reader and editor. To each their own, of course.

That was *my* link! ;) I created that table of pros and cons.
Yes.. since the release of Winpoint 415, the table is much
outdated now.

Looks like you've got some updating to do. ;)

Yes.. Abandonware for Apoint is disappointment. It wasn't a
bad point system at all.

I will take your word for it.

With that said, OpenXP also has an extra nod from me because of it's NNTP functionality. That seems to be the only one out of the three that you don't have to use as a point, since you can access your original message base. Add UTF-8 support in both directions and you have a clear winner there (IMO, of course).

If WinPoint had NNTP I probably would have kept it installed. But I don't need point software (especially storing another message base only utilized by one program) at the moment, I just wanted to see what was out there and give it a test run.

Great stuff, though! If either of them continue development, I will definitely keep my eye out.

Regards,
Nick

... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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Hello Nicholas!

With that said, OpenXP also has an extra nod from me because of it's NNTP functionality.

And email too.

That seems to be the only one out of the three that you
don't have to use as a point, since you can access your
original message base.

Dunno how it can operate without being a point unless you mean
just as an nntp/email system.

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On Mon, 6 May 2024 14:44:00 -0400, August Abolins -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

That seems to be the only one out of the three that you
don't have to use as a point, since you can access your
original message base.

Dunno how it can operate without being a point unless you mean
just as an nntp/email system.

Just as an NNTP client. ;)

Regards,
Nick

... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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