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  Re: Create message bases
  By: mark lewis to Marceline Jones on Sun Mar 07 2021 05:57 am

 >   Re: Create message bases
 >   By: Marceline Jones to KAI RICHTER on Sun Mar 07 2021 18:03:00
 >
 >
 >  MJ> My point was I can skip all the other software and just go directly
 >  MJ> from QWK to a node.
 >
 > not really... QWK is lossy... especially with FTN messages... there is a lot
 > of information lost when FTN messages are packed via QWK...
 >
 > it should be noted that QWK was shoehorned into FTN... it originates on a
 > completely different network and has much different principles... QWK works
 > for end users solely because it transfers the message body which is 99% of
 > what they care about... QWK links messages by subject line which we all know
 > is a fallacy and quite wrong in many cases... there are better ways to
 > properly link message threads no matter what the subject lines are...

There are QWK extensions that address those shortcomings you mentioned:
https://wiki.synchro.net/ref:qwk#headersdat
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