There was also a program called CRR (CP/M Read and Reply) by Paul Martin which was a clever offline reader, so you could download your mail, read it offline, reply and then reconnect to send it. Intended for FidoNET boards, I think.
My God I remember CRR... it was the best proggy around at the time for saving the old BT bill at 500/500 or 12/75. You could dial up and download your Fidonet packet from your local node (mine was Moonmoth at Chiswick (I was at Twickenham's SCHLOSS WACCI TOWERS at the time) and unpack it, read the messages from your selected areas, read and reply to your own personal messages.
Paul Martin was a CP/M+ computer genius but lacked any single neuron that was attached to a sense of humour... I got in to many a spat with him when he misunderstood my drunken ramblings of admiration (damn that red wine - listen up kids just DON'T DRINK AND CRRive!)
P.S. Since I now live in Canada I can legally get high and CRR instead! :-]
PPS. Are Fidonet, CRR, Paul Martin or CP/M+ still around???
This has been a slightly drunken diatribe from the keyboard of.... YOURS TRULY.... Royal Air Force Flight Officer (Retired) Steve Williams R.N. R.G.N. S.R.N. S.E.N. R.M.N. (Bahhhh.... that's enough bullcrap for now!)....... the former editor and still the sole owner of WACCI ..... He is also known as SevenT or occasionally he is somewhat "affectionally" referred to as OMG (Old Misery Guts) by Joolz........ By The Way does anyone bother to read these signature lines until they get to repeat themselves?.... I'm curious.... How long would you continue to read this? What if I revealed to you the fact that Auntie John Kennedy was actually a Welsh herbivore who convinced Sinead O'Conner to become a Buddhist Ninja and that Peter Ceresole (the famed WACCI Deputy Editor and ACU writer) was actually Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation. Uncle Clive Bellaby was actually a very small mole upon the face of Sir Clive Sinclair... still reading this nonsense? Oh how I wish we had the INTERNUT back in the day when we used to publish WACCI... we could have had so much more fun! Good Lord you are still reading this... well here we go again... “These violent delights have violent ends And in their trump die, like fire and powder. Which, as they kiss, consume” “Let me not to the marriage of true minds, Admit impediments. Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark. That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring barque, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks. Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.” Really? Still reading it? In case you are wondering... it was one of William Shakespeare's great sonnets.... and now we will get back to the signature rollout. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING! SevenT