A POINT program is a software to automated data exchange with a mailbox system, i.e. dispatching and receiving from private and public messages (similar E-Mail and news) and if necessary even programs and other files as well as their treatment and administration. POINT program are optimized to keep as short as possible on-line times for this reason become the data ith D which can be transmitted. R. compresses, before a telecommunications connection to the mailbox computer was developed.

The name originally comes from the FidoNet, in which the individual user is called POINT.

Background

- Not only in the USA, but also in Germany - private mailbox nets, which exchanged data with one another in regular intervals over the voice grade channel, developed for center of the 1980er. (And to be able partially today still) economically electronic messages could exchange the user attached to the individual mailboxes and in public forums discuss. Since these mailboxes were predominantly operated by private individuals, these only few voice grade channels had. Small mailboxes had usually only a line for the enterprise, larger two or also three, more lines were rarely the absolute exception. Thus if a user was straight on-line, blocked it the line for further mailbox user. On-line time of the individual user could be kept by the use of POINT programs as short as possible, so that more user got the opportunity to call up their data.

As side effect the purse of the users was preserved. Besides the user had to be concerned not with the partially kryptischen and quite spartanischen surface of the mailbox, but was relatively free in the software in the context of personal taste and preferences.

Examples of well-known POINT programs particularly in the German FidoNet are in the meantime the Yuppie become extinct to a large extent! and the multi-net program CROSS POINT further developed used this very day in different version lines and.

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