Hi,

I made some "big" changes to my BBS(s) setup here at Razor's Domain.

I had a Mystic BBS running on a Pi as my main bbs that was fun for
awhile, but I got to the point that I never checked it, rarely read the
echos and it just sat there tossing networks to my telegard point
setup.

So yesterday and today I went through the process of dropping several
networks that really were not of much use to me and moved the networks
I was keeping (Micronet, Fidonet, Retronet??) to the TG machine (where
as before it was just a point).

That seems to have gone smoothly and only took an hour or so.

Speaking of Retronet, anyone on that network still have a connection?
When I moved it to TG, I noticed I could not get a connect to Carlos's
machine. And then I looked on the Mystic BBS and the last message I had
in that network was Feb 2021. So I guess it's been down since then?
That was one of the networks I wanted to keep because it did have some
good traffic on it.

BBSing is so much fun.....

Kev

--- Telegard/2/QWK v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
* Origin: Razor's Domain/2 BBS (618:200/1)

Kevin,

BBSing is so much fun.....

We're just gluttons for punishment. :P

Daryl

... This years toast is better with this years bacon and eggs.
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Kevin Nunn wrote to All <=-

Speaking of Retronet, anyone on that network still have a connection?

I get the bbs ads anyway which seems to be the main active echo.

When I moved it to TG, I noticed I could not get a connect to Carlos's machine. And then I looked on the Mystic BBS and the last message I had
in that network was Feb 2021. So I guess it's been down since then?

He changed his binkd port to 24556, see if you can connect with that?

That was one of the networks I wanted to keep because it did have some good traffic on it.

It does on occasion get some traffic. Enough that I keep it as well.

Shawn

... A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.

--- Talisman v0.24-dev (Windows/x86)
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Speaking of Retronet, anyone on that network still have a connection?
When I moved it to TG, I noticed I could not get a connect to Carlos's machine. And then I looked on the Mystic BBS and the last message I had
in that network was Feb 2021. So I guess it's been down since then?
That was one of the networks I wanted to keep because it did have some
good traffic on it.

I have a QWK connection with Tony Langdon and the network is still flowing here. It has been very quiet lately, though. Excluding the Ads echo, I
have been averaging one new message a week across all the echos since
Summer started. :( Seems people still check it though because posts
usually get answers.

Mike


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Mike Powell wrote to KEVIN NUNN <=-

I have a QWK connection with Tony Langdon and the network is still
flowing here. It has been very quiet lately, though. Excluding the
Ads echo, I have been averaging one new message a week across all the echos since Summer started. :( Seems people still check it though because posts usually get answers.

Micronet is more active than other nets over summer, I've noticed,
though I'd say 70% of the network is inactive at any given time.
There's plenty of sysops in here that I've seen a "test" message when
they connect then nothing else save for an automated message or two.

-- Sean


... One man's Windows are another man's walls.
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Re: Re: Network Shuffle
By: Sean Dennis to Mike Powell on Sun Jul 18 2021 02:38 pm

Mike Powell wrote to KEVIN NUNN <=-

I have a QWK connection with Tony Langdon and the network is still flowing here. It has been very quiet lately, though. Excluding the Ads echo, I have been averaging one new message a week across all the echos since Summer started. :( Seems people still check it though because posts usually get answers.

Micronet is more active than other nets over summer, I've noticed,
though I'd say 70% of the network is inactive at any given time.
There's plenty of sysops in here that I've seen a "test" message when
they connect then nothing else save for an automated message or two.

-- Sean

... One man's Windows are another man's walls.
___ MultiMail/Win v0.52

There are probably lots of lurkers. It is like IRC. It looks like nobody is talking but if you bring an interesting subject up, a dozen people will dogpile on it.

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Hello Arelor,

Monday July 19 2021 03:30, you wrote to me:

There are probably lots of lurkers. It is like IRC. It looks like
nobody is talking but if you bring an interesting subject up, a dozen people will dogpile on it.

Yes but you'd think that they'd have something to say after spending years in the network with nary a peep.

-- Sean

... Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
--- GoldED/2 3.0.1
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Hello Sean Dennis!

** On Monday 19.07.21 - 11:47, Sean Dennis wrote to Arelor:

There are probably lots of lurkers. It is like IRC. It
looks like nobody is talking but if you bring an
interesting subject up, a dozen people will dogpile on it.

Yes but you'd think that they'd have something to say
after spending years in the network with nary a peep.

Wallflowers tend to remain wallflowers. Some people simply have
a hard time jumping in and contribute to conversations in real
life.



--
../|ug

--- OpenXP 5.0.50
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August,

Yes but you'd think that they'd have something to say
after spending years in the network with nary a peep.

Wallflowers tend to remain wallflowers. Some people simply have
a hard time jumping in and contribute to conversations in real
life.

Basically, persistent lurkers. :P

Daryl

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Sean Dennis wrote to Mike Powell <=-

Micronet is more active than other nets over summer, I've noticed,
though I'd say 70% of the network is inactive at any given time.
There's plenty of sysops in here that I've seen a "test" message when
they connect then nothing else save for an automated message or two.

I know why! Because Micronet has a bunch of us geeks in it who can't
handle the high humidity of summer and stay inside. ;)

We didn't go to the woods this weekend, it was raining (of course it
ended up clearing) but we just took a weekend to stay at home in the
a/c.

Shawn

... Skating away on the thin ice of a new day...

--- Talisman v0.24-dev (Windows/x86)
* Origin: Tiny's BBS II = tinysbbs.com:4323/ssh:4322 (618:500/33)

Hello Tiny,

Monday July 19 2021 05:34, you wrote to me:

I know why! Because Micronet has a bunch of us geeks in it who can't handle the high humidity of summer and stay inside. ;)

NNNNNEEEEEEERRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSS (to quote someone famous, LOL).

We didn't go to the woods this weekend, it was raining (of course it
ended up clearing) but we just took a weekend to stay at home in the
a/c.

It is pouring off and on the past few days and my arthritis has flared up. I am stiff as a board and it has been painful to move ... enough to where I have to walk with a cane in the apartment (rare I have to do that).

-- Sean

... You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
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07-19-21 19:30 August Abolins wrote to Sean Dennis about Network Shuffle
Howdy! August, Sean and ALL,

@MSGID: <60F60B1C.2110.min_bbsf@capitolcityonline.net>
@REPLY: <60F59F6E.2109.min_bbsf@capitolcityonline.net>
Hello Sean Dennis!

** On Monday 19.07.21 - 11:47, Sean Dennis wrote to Arelor:

There are probably lots of lurkers. It is like IRC. It
looks like nobody is talking but if you bring an
interesting subject up, a dozen people will dogpile on it.

Yes but you'd think that they'd have something to say
after spending years in the network with nary a peep.

Wallflowers tend to remain wallflowers. Some people simply have
a hard time jumping in and contribute to conversations in real
life.

I'M GUILTY AS CHARGED, I AM a Lurker.

In March 1984 I bought a Commodore 64 PC, C=1541 5-1/4" Floppy Disk
Drive and 300 Baud VIC Modem.

Later someone I met told me the phone number for a local BBS for the
Commodore Computers and I began calling it.

I had already been using some Amateur Radio BBS's and was glad to
learn about the Dial-Up C= BBS because I needed to learn about
"this here" computer stuff from other BBS Users, and hear about
the things they experienced and to ask them questions about how
to do things with my computer.

My thoughts were a BBS was sorta like the Amateur Radio Club
Meetings I attended back when I got my Novice License in 1958.
I could talk with other Ham Operators there to learn enough about
Radio stuff so to be able to know enough to pass the F.C.C. Test for
a higher Class Operators License.

In a Computer Store I picked up a FREE Newletter and saw a List of
Dial-Up BBS's and called one of them that had Topics about DOS and
Windows so I could learn about those OS's.

The BBS was called The Volunteer BBS and was part of The GT Power BBS
Network.

There were messages from people in the USA, England and Taiwan on
that BBS, and after reading many, many messages I decided to jump in
and write a message, and here I are, still lurking and writing
occasionally.

As much as I try, I'll never become a Mister Know-It-All, even tho I
act like it sometimes.

Thanks for tolerating me.

73 (Best Regards) de (from) Ed W9ODR dit dit


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Sean,

It is pouring off and on the past few days and my arthritis has flared
up. I am stiff as a board and it has been painful to move ... enough
to where I have to walk with a cane in the apartment (rare I have to do that).

Summer has kicked into high gear here, with isolated thunderstorms, heat,
and humidity. Heat Advisories are likely this weekend into next week, but
our hottest part of the year is early to mid-August, anyway.

Daryl

... You can't force it to rain by waxing your car.
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Ed,

I'M GUILTY AS CHARGED, I AM a Lurker.

As Bugs Bunny said in "Hillbilly Hare"..."Oh, mergatroyd!! Look what
crawled out of the woodwork!!" <BG>.

In March 1984 I bought a Commodore 64 PC, C=1541 5-1/4" Floppy Disk
Drive and 300 Baud VIC Modem.

My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 MC-10 Micro Color Computer.
It had a 16K RAM Expansion pack (the default was 4K), which plugged into
the back of the keyboard...you used a TV set for a monitor, and programs
were saved and loaded on cassette tape. The printers for it were very small...one was a thermal paper printer, and the other was 4 colors, but
it was noisy when it printed, compared to the thermal paper printer. I
also had a 300 baud modem, with a switch in 3 positions...Originate,
Answer, and OFF. You would dial the phone number first (manually), then
when you heard the modem squeal, you'd move the switch to ORIGINATE,
and hang up the phone. I did my early days with CompuServe on that
computer.

Later someone I met told me the phone number for a local BBS for the Commodore Computers and I began calling it.

I think the BBS stuff started on a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 laptop.
I found a program that'd allow Xmodem file transfers, and I had a 2400
baud modem at the time. A companion program also made the font smaller,
but easier to work with (the default was 40 characters per line).

I had already been using some Amateur Radio BBS's and was glad to
learn about the Dial-Up C= BBS because I needed to learn about
"this here" computer stuff from other BBS Users, and hear about
the things they experienced and to ask them questions about how
to do things with my computer.

I have a bulletin on my BBS of all the Arkansas BBS's (most in the
central part of the state) that went offline long ago. Admittedly, it
brings back memories.

My thoughts were a BBS was sorta like the Amateur Radio Club
Meetings I attended back when I got my Novice License in 1958.
I could talk with other Ham Operators there to learn enough about
Radio stuff so to be able to know enough to pass the F.C.C. Test for
a higher Class Operators License.

I feel that if the Volunteer Examiner Coordinator program didn't get
going nearly 30 years ago, the hobby would've died out...as there was
no one to give the exams, when the FCC quit doing it. However, as it
notes in Part 97, they can still readminister an exam themselves. I
downloaded a PDF of that (dated March 8, 2018), and put it on the BBS.
But, I also exported it to ascii text, for 2 of the ham radio doors I
have online. It took much of the day to go through to format the file
to under 78 characters per line.

In a Computer Store I picked up a FREE Newletter and saw a List of
Dial-Up BBS's and called one of them that had Topics about DOS and
Windows so I could learn about those OS's.

I remember seeing "Computer Shopper" years ago.

The BBS was called The Volunteer BBS and was part of The GT Power BBS Network.

Wasn't Tom Currie the one who ran that??

There were messages from people in the USA, England and Taiwan on
that BBS, and after reading many, many messages I decided to jump in
and write a message, and here I are, still lurking and writing occasionally.

There are other things in life besides BBSing and ham radio (some would consider that heresy <G>). But, I don't spend every waking moment with
my hobbies, or I'll risk burnout.

As much as I try, I'll never become a Mister Know-It-All, even tho I
act like it sometimes.

I saw a T-shirt awhile back that noted "I don't need Google. My wife
knows everything". Talk about a personal search engine. <G>

Thanks for tolerating me.

I don't think the moderators have anything to worry about from you
or me, Ed. :)

Daryl, WX4QZ

... Xmodem - A modem that has been hit by lightning.
=== MultiMail/Win v0.52
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Hello Daryl,

Wednesday July 21 2021 08:18, you wrote to me:

Summer has kicked into high gear here, with isolated thunderstorms, heat, and humidity. Heat Advisories are likely this weekend into next week, but our hottest part of the year is early to mid-August, anyway.

We have an orange quality health alert for air here due to wildfires somewhere nearby.

-- Sean

... An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
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Sean Dennis wrote to Tiny <=-

NNNNNEEEEEEERRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSS (to quote someone famous, LOL).

LOL

It is pouring off and on the past few days and my arthritis has flared
up. I am stiff as a board and it has been painful to move ... enough
to where I have to walk with a cane in the apartment (rare I have to do that).

I've had those days. Cane is coming with me to work today just in case
as I feel pretty much how you describe.

Shawn

... Things too stupid to be spoken are sung.

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Tiny wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I've had those days. Cane is coming with me to work today just in case
as I feel pretty much how you describe.

It's getting difficult to sit a long time at the computer too but I
think with a good desk and comfy chair that will be eliminated. My
hands malfunctioning is what is bothering me.

-- Sean


... A man's as only good as the woman he feels.
___ MultiMail/Win v0.52

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Sean,

It's getting difficult to sit a long time at the computer too but I
think with a good desk and comfy chair that will be eliminated. My
hands malfunctioning is what is bothering me.

With degenerative disk disease in my back and spine, it's hard to sit
at the computer, or stand for a long time. Getting old is not for sissies,
and the ONLY golden thing about "the golden years" is the color of your
urine.

... A man's as only good as the woman he feels.

Q: How do you feel??
A: With my hands.

Daryl

... "Oh, Bother!!" said Pooh, as he corrupted his tagline collection.
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Sean Dennis wrote to Tiny <=-

It's getting difficult to sit a long time at the computer too but I
think with a good desk and comfy chair that will be eliminated. My
hands malfunctioning is what is bothering me.

You get used to it. We're used to the fact I will randomly drop or
throw things. Just clean it up and move on with life. Guitars are
hidden under the bed so I don't see them. For the rest of it, when
my hands don't work they don't work. Sometimes I have to use the
food processor to cut onions, other days I can use a knife.

Shawn

... Confidence is the feeling you had before you knew better.

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Re: Re: Network Shuffle
By: Arelor to Sean Dennis on Mon Jul 19 2021 03:30 am

There are probably lots of lurkers. It is like IRC. It looks like nobody is talking but if you bring an interesting subject up, a dozen people will dogpile on it.

Very true ;-)

... Frank Beard is the only member of ZZ Top without a beard.

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Hello Ed Vance!

** On Tuesday 20.07.21 - 19:55, Ed Vance wrote to August Abolins:

Wallflowers tend to remain wallflowers. Some people
simply have a hard time jumping in and contribute to
conversations in real life.

I'M GUILTY AS CHARGED, I AM a Lurker.

In March 1984 I bought a Commodore 64 PC, C=1541 5-1/4"
Floppy Disk Drive and 300 Baud VIC Modem.

I was bit leary about ICQ when it first came out. But it proved
to be a fine communications medium to stir up a "live" chat
with someone at any time of the day.

In a Computer Store I picked up a FREE Newletter and saw a
List of Dial-Up BBS's and called one of them that had
Topics about DOS and Windows so I could learn about those
OS's.

My first real awareness of BBSes to call in my local area was
courtesy of Boardwatch magazine. Then, it was a matter of
getting a good LD plan to check out some of the ones farther
away. A little later, I gravitated towards Compuserve.

There were messages from people in the USA, England and
Taiwan on that BBS, and after reading many, many messages
I decided to jump in and write a message, and here I are,
still lurking and writing occasionally.

You are less of a lurker than others. ;)

--
../|ug

--- OpenXP 5.0.50
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On 25 Jul 2021, August Abolins said the following...

I was bit leary about ICQ when it first came out. But it proved
to be a fine communications medium to stir up a "live" chat
with someone at any time of the day.

I remember that feature of ICQ, where you could pick a random chat partner in a specific country or who spoke a specific language.

When I signed up to ICQ I had a 5 digit ICQ number but then ended up forgetting my password to it, when I signed back up I was issued a 6 digit number, which was kind of a bummer.

This was when I was still in high school, one of my friends joked that he was going to get his ICQ number printed on a t-shirt, which I though was an interesting idea. Those were simpler times...

In a Computer Store I picked up a FREE Newletter and saw a
List of Dial-Up BBS's and called one of them that had
Topics about DOS and Windows so I could learn about those
OS's.

You know, I worked in a computer store and never thought to try and advertise there. I don't really remember how I first came to learn about BBS's though, just that the first board I dialed into was Prime Time BBS in Gravenhurst, Ontario which was a multi-line PCBoard BBS.

My first real awareness of BBSes to call in my local area was
courtesy of Boardwatch magazine. Then, it was a matter of
getting a good LD plan to check out some of the ones farther
away. A little later, I gravitated towards Compuserve.

There were a couple of boards one town over in Huntsville which was still long distance back then. Someone started a service where you could dial a local number to a town in between the two, listen to a short advertisement and then get a dialtone to call into Huntsville as a local call.

It was in the latter stage of BBS'ing when my family got London Telecom and I was able to dial long distance BBS's more often, one of my favourites was run by a nice fellow named Shawn Highfield... ;)


Jay

... The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/07/23 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (618:500/23)

07-21-21 08:30 Daryl Stout wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Network Shuffle
Howdy! Daryl,

@MSGID: <60F828DB.2116.min_bbsf@capitolcityonline.net>
@REPLY: <60F7628F.2114.min_bbsf@capitolcityonline.net>
Ed,

I'M GUILTY AS CHARGED, I AM a Lurker.

As Bugs Bunny said in "Hillbilly Hare"..."Oh, mergatroyd!! Look what crawled out of the woodwork!!" <BG>.

-snip-

I had already been using some Amateur Radio BBS's and was glad to
learn about the Dial-Up C= BBS because I needed to learn about
"this here" computer stuff from other BBS Users, and hear about
the things they experienced and to ask them questions about how
to do things with my computer.

I have a bulletin on my BBS of all the Arkansas BBS's (most in the central part of the state) that went offline long ago. Admittedly, it brings back memories.

Were those Amateur Radio BBS's in that bulletin?
I'm guessing they weren't Ham BBS's just public BBS's, Hmmm ..--.. (?)

My thoughts were a BBS was sorta like the Amateur Radio Club
Meetings I attended back when I got my Novice License in 1958.
I could talk with other Ham Operators there to learn enough about
Radio stuff so to be able to know enough to pass the F.C.C. Test for
a higher Class Operators License.

I feel that if the Volunteer Examiner Coordinator program didn't get going nearly 30 years ago, the hobby would've died out...as there was
no one to give the exams, when the FCC quit doing it. However, as it
notes in Part 97, they can still readminister an exam themselves. I downloaded a PDF of that (dated March 8, 2018), and put it on the BBS. But, I also exported it to ascii text, for 2 of the ham radio doors I
have online. It took much of the day to go through to format the file
to under 78 characters per line.

At the last License Exam I took, a F.C.C. Employee was there.
I think the Volunteer Examiner program should be ended, and revert
back to having Agent(s) from the F.C.C. in charge of giving the Tests.

In a Computer Store I picked up a FREE Newletter and saw a List of
Dial-Up BBS's and called one of them that had Topics about DOS and
Windows so I could learn about those OS's.

I remember seeing "Computer Shopper" years ago.

Was "Computer Shopper" the name of a local newsletter, or are You
talking about the BIG magazine with advertisements for everything
to build a computer?
I can't remember what the local newsletter I found the BBS List in
was called.
1995 is a long time ago and what the newsletter was called isn't in
My memory anymore...I don't even know if I still have that issue in
my collection.

The BBS was called The Volunteer BBS and was part of The GT Power BBS Network.

Wasn't Tom Currie the one who ran that??

YES!

There were messages from people in the USA, England and Taiwan on
that BBS, and after reading many, many messages I decided to jump in
and write a message, and here I are, still lurking and writing occasionally.

Later I called The PRISM BBS and began reading FIDO BBS messages.
And also Mike Powell's BBS with a Railroad Train name that I can't
recall, until He moved to Frankfort, Kentucky out of my local dial-up
calling area.

I 'think' Mike's BBS was named The Pan-Am BBS, was that guess close
enuf?

After I retired a friend paid for a few months for a Dial-Up Internet
Service until they moved away, then I paid for it just a few months
more and then quit paying the monthly fee and went "cold turkey"
i.e. No BBS access for a while.

I learned about JUNO Email either just a little earlier than getting
the Dial-Up ISP Account or maybe it was some time later I learned about
JUNO, but I really liked having a Free Email Account and used it until
JUNO quit Dial-In access.

So after awhile I had DSL added to my Telephone Bill and Resubscribed
to Mike's BBS now called The Capital City BBS.

There are other things in life besides BBSing and ham radio (some
would consider that heresy <G>). But, I don't spend every waking moment with my hobbies, or I'll risk burnout.

YEP!,

there is: Photography with all of its various sub-hobbies, High Fidelity Systems, listening to Southern Gospel Quartet Music on the Broadcast
Band Radio, building Heathkits, using The Online Bible on the pc.
Yes - lots of things besides BBSing and Ham Radio.

As much as I try, I'll never become a Mister Know-It-All, even tho I
act like it sometimes.

I saw a T-shirt awhile back that noted "I don't need Google. My wife knows everything". Talk about a personal search engine. <G>

That's cute.

Thanks for tolerating me.

I don't think the moderators have anything to worry about from you
or me, Ed. :)

Hmmm, reading that makes me think about a sign I saw that said:

"All Fishermen are liars, except You and Me. And I'm not so sure
about You."

73 (Best Regards) de (From) Ed W9ODR dit dit

... On a hacker's tombstone: CONNECT 1964 - NO CARRIER 1994
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Warpslide wrote to August Abolins <=-

When I signed up to ICQ I had a 5 digit ICQ number but then ended up forgetting my password to it, when I signed back up I was
issued a 6 digit number, which was kind of a bummer.

I still remember my ICQ user number: 19965647.

It's been years since I fired up ICQ but I enjoyed it until it got
bought out.

-- Sean

... I'm too skeptical to deny the possibility of anything...
___ MultiMail/Win v0.52

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TINY wrote to KEVIN NUNN <=-

Kevin Nunn wrote to All <=-

machine. And then I looked on the Mystic BBS and the last message I had
in that network was Feb 2021. So I guess it's been down since then?

He changed his binkd port to 24556, see if you can connect with that?

Thanks, I changed to that port and now I can connect without password
errors. Trying to get an areafix through now.

Kev

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TINY wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

I know why! Because Micronet has a bunch of us geeks in it who can't handle the high humidity of summer and stay inside. ;)

/me raises hand

Kev

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SEAN DENNIS wrote to TINY <=-

I know why! Because Micronet has a bunch of us geeks in it who can't handle the high humidity of summer and stay inside. ;)

NNNNNEEEEEEERRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSS (to quote someone famous, LOL).

I am actually watching that right now. I watched RotN 1 last weekend,
watching RotN II now, love those shows.

Then back to my x-files watch. Never seen all of them, so watching them
all. On season 3 now.

Kev

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Hello Kevin,

Sunday July 25 2021 20:42, you wrote to me:

I am actually watching that right now. I watched RotN 1 last weekend, watching RotN II now, love those shows.

I've got the extended edition of RotN1 somewhere around here on DVD.

Then back to my x-files watch. Never seen all of them, so watching
them all. On season 3 now.

My local library has the full X-Files series on DVD for checkout. If I only had money for more hard drive space ...

-- Sean

... TV is chewing gum for the eyes. - Frank Lloyd Wright
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07-25-21 13:25 August Abolins wrote to Ed Vance about Network Shuffle
Howdy! Again August,

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Hello Ed Vance!

** On Tuesday 20.07.21 - 19:55, Ed Vance wrote to August Abolins:

Wallflowers tend to remain wallflowers. Some people
simply have a hard time jumping in and contribute to
conversations in real life.

I'M GUILTY AS CHARGED, I AM a Lurker.

In March 1984 I bought a Commodore 64 PC, C=1541 5-1/4"
Floppy Disk Drive and 300 Baud VIC Modem.

I was bit leary about ICQ when it first came out. But it proved
to be a fine communications medium to stir up a "live" chat
with someone at any time of the day.

I never used ICQ or USENET (I think they are similar?).
I don't think ICQ is something CBM created or offered, was it?

In a Computer Store I picked up a FREE Newletter and saw a
List of Dial-Up BBS's and called one of them that had
Topics about DOS and Windows so I could learn about those
OS's.

My first real awareness of BBSes to call in my local area was
courtesy of Boardwatch magazine. Then, it was a matter of
getting a good LD plan to check out some of the ones farther
away. A little later, I gravitated towards Compuserve.

Someone told me a Phone Number I could call Compuserve for free
to see what Compuserve had on it.
I called it once or maybe twice to try it out but I wasn't interested
in getting a paid account on it, or AOL for that matter.

There was one Dial-Up BBS's I called once called D.I.S.K. that
asked me to Pay if I wanted to use it after the Trial Call.
When I tried it out I got confused when all of a sudden another User
on the System (not the SysOp) started typing TO ME.
I didn't know others were notified when I logged on that system.

I like QWK because I'm in my own little world when I'm Reading,
Writing or Writing a Reply.

There were messages from people in the USA, England and
Taiwan on that BBS, and after reading many, many messages
I decided to jump in and write a message, and here I are,
still lurking and writing occasionally.

You are less of a lurker than others. ;)

I read/lurk many Echos on this BBS, I just jump in and out at times.

73 (Best Regards) de (from) Ed W9ODR dit dit

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Kevin Nunn wrote to Tiny <=-

He changed his binkd port to 24556, see if you can connect with that?

Thanks, I changed to that port and now I can connect without password errors. Trying to get an areafix through now.

You're welcome. I can't believe my memory was correct. LOL

Shawn

... "Bart, stop pestering Satan!"

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Warpslide wrote to August Abolins <=-

When I signed up to ICQ I had a 5 digit ICQ number but then ended up forgetting my password to it, when I signed back up I was issued a 6
digit number, which was kind of a bummer.

I /think/ mine was 3231258.

You know, I worked in a computer store and never thought to try and advertise there. I don't really remember how I first came to learn
about BBS's though, just that the first board I dialed into was Prime
Time BBS in Gravenhurst, Ontario which was a multi-line PCBoard BBS.

The computer store in town here always had a list of BBSes. One of the
first I called was "The Red Baron BBS".

could dial a local number to a town in between the two, listen to a
short advertisement and then get a dialtone to call into Huntsville as
a local call.

I used to have a phone in my friends house in Ajax that would foward me to
the ISP in Toronto. That's how I initially brought the internet to my BBS. First UUCP, then a dedicated connection at 33.6, and after that ISDN. By
that point I had switched to running the ISP and sold it shortly after that.

It was in the latter stage of BBS'ing when my family got London Telecom and I was able to dial long distance BBS's more often, one of my favourites was run by a nice fellow named Shawn Highfield... ;)

Thanks man. ;)

Shawn

... Let no good deed go unpunished.

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Ed Vance wrote to August Abolins <=-

I never used ICQ or USENET (I think they are similar?).

They're two separate technologies. ICQ is instant messaging while
USENET is newsgroups.

-- Sean

... Enterprise News: Borg destroyed after absorbing Windows.
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