Hi Steven,

>> grew up with in Warwick NY. :)  In Louisville, the grass stuck up
>> out of the snow most times when we'd get snow. He said it was about
>> the same in Vancouver :)

> Vancouver's snow is wet and thick.  Things dopn't stick out of it but it does
> not last lonmg.

Aw, he was probably trying to make me feel better 

>The snow has stayed away so far but ourview is toward a range of hills and you
> can see the snow line creeping down.

I bet that's a sight :)

>> It's been in the 60's here all week.. nice but not too cold.. now
>> this weekend the prediction is for Saturday 72F and on Sunday,
>> 79F.. with high 70's through Tuesay.. will be nice if it sticks
>> around, but I doubt it will.

> Enjoy what you can when you can. :-)  I'm off to warmer climes in two weeks.

We did :)  Enjoy your time away.

>>> Sure, it was good to see some of my cousins post on facebook as
>>> well.. Gui or not, I don't think I could convince them to join
>>> Fidonet, or log in as a user 

>I'd have no luck either.  All my Fidonet software is legacy stuff and will run
> under Windows 7 only in a VM.

Understand.

>> I may have to find a BBS which carries Fido as using a Virtual Box as
>> I now do
>> is a bit unwieldy.

>> I'm sure there are a number of bbs where you can do that.

> There are but how do I keep mymoderatopr's node address?

Anyone can be a moderator.  You don't need to have node number for that. 
We have some users who are moderators, and they use their sysop's system to
send netmail to the Echolist when updates are due, that kind of thing. :) 
In other words, the system you'd use would have to let you enter netmail
messages.

>> You can use the web interface here, go to
>> http://www.filegate.net:8080/bbbs You register as new user by
>> clicking on the New User prompt on the very far right of the
>> screen.  It's not the nicest web interface I've seen, but it does
>> make message areas accessible in a gui.. You can enter messages and
>> save them, and you can download qwk packets, but you can't upload
>> replies.. sadly.. I may try again to get that working .. I wasn't
>> successful the first time I tried. :(

> Thanks for the offer.  I will take a look.

Sounds good. :)

Take care,
Janis

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