What Is Silver Xpress?
introduction to Silver Xpress.
Welcome to the silver xpress off-line mail system.  Silver
xpress is a mail system designed for opus, quickbbs, fido,
searchlight, tpboard, rbbs, pcboard, remote access and
roboboard.  support for other popular bulletin board systems
will also be available in the future.
reading and replying to bulletin board mail is a time
consuming, often taking up your entire allocated time on a bbs.
if you read lots of mail, spend a lot of time on-line replying
to and entering new mail, and/or have large phone bills from
calling computer bulletin board systems (bbs's), then Silver
xpress is for you.
with silver xpress, you can capture mail in an organized manner
for off-line reading and replying.  you can do this with any
xpressable bbs on which you are a user.  ask the bbs sysop if
their system is setup to support silver xpress.
silver xpress captures mail from your pre-selected message
areas or conferences.  it then bundles the mail into a
compressed format ready for downloading to your pc.  This comp-
ressed file is called an xpress mail packet.  once you download
the xpress mail packet to your pc, you use the interactive
xpress reader program to read and reply to your mail.
to get started, find a bulletin board system that offers the
silver xpress system as a service to you, a communications
program with download and upload capabilities, and a file
compression system such as pkzip, pak, arc, zoo or lharc.
file compression systems are also call archival systems or
archivers.
in summary, the xpress mail system lets you do the following:
[a]  scan for your new mail
[b]  bundle the mail into xpress packet format
[c]  compress the bundle using your favorite archiver
[d]  transfer the xpress packet to your pc using a standard file
transfer protocol such as xmodem, ymodem or zmodem.
[e]  use the special xpress reader program after logging off to
read and reply to the new mail.
[f]  log back on the same bbs to upload the reply packet, if you
have created one.
[g]  repeat from the beginning.
If you have any more questions or any problem
please give a hollar to your local system or
access the Xpress Support echo available on
most BBS' that are offering the Xpress Mail
System.