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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Gordon Meyer
from: Mike Fenton
date: 2008-11-11 22:59:00
subject: Re: Old DOS BBS Software

GM> I was wondering if anyone out there remembers seeing/dialing into/running 
GM> BBS software WME-BBS. . . . 
GM> I ask due to the fact that it was the software that I ran more than 10 yea
GM> ago, and I have been trying to find out what happened to it after I shut d
GM> my BBS. . . 
GM> What I do know is that Jason Fesler wrote that software to begin with, I k
GM> in touch with him via e-mail from time to time still today. Jason needed t
GM> move on into other projects so he sold that rights/source to Tom 
GM> Ordelman/European Cybernetics, who I try to keep in touch with and have 
GM> exchanged e-mail with some in the past few months. I am waiting to find ou
GM> from Tom who he sold the rights/source to as he did the same thing as Jaso
GM> So, I am not actually looking for someone here, to give me the author hist
GM> of the software as more just information on some people that did use the B
GM> software and any interesting files that might be out there in support or a
GM> 
GM> the software. . .
GM> I know that it was not software that people used very much, but Jason has 
GM> 
GM> noted to state there were "400+ registered sites around the
world" before 
GM> sold WME to Tom. So I would like to think that someone out there in FidoNe
GM> would either have worked with it or knew someone that ran the darned thing
GM> If you never looked at it, I would like to say, the software was something
GM> that I thought was well ahead of it's time in many ways. I can honestly sa
GM> that I never really had any troubles running it right out of the box. Heck
GM> was running it with Front Door (FidoNet, World Message Exchange), many of 
GM> biggest door dames at the time (LORD, GO, etc etc) and quite a few file ar
GM> (including CD-ROM, dropped right into the file areas, not via a door progr
GM> 
GM> hehe, sounds more like an ad for the darned thing...
GM> 
GM> Anyway, thought that I would put a little info here and start up a little 
GM> chatter (it is the "BBS Software Chatter" Echo, right?)
GM> 
GM> P.S. If anyone wants to ask me anything about it, drop me a line here in t

Sounds interesting.. Keep me updated. :)

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