Hello Frank!

In a message to Matt Munson  Frank Reid wrote:

FR> Just the name, more than anything.  Back in the day, I
FR> worked with Ken and Kevin Carpenter on some aspects of
FR> WWIVGate.  It was later sold to WWIV Software Services for
FR> inclusion in the network packages.  I believe there was some
FR> disagreement on the source (or it was lost at some point).
FR> So, I've retained WWIVGate rather than upgrading to WFido.
FR> There are some minor differences in construction of
FR> configuration files and such, if I remember correctly.
FR> Also, WWIVGate does not handle Y2K properly, thus the posts
FR> you see here have a malformed date.  (I use the free PKTDate
FR> utility to timestamp things properly before they go out on
FR> the Fidonet backbone, though.)

Hmm.  Perhaps that's why the messages look okay by the time they
make it to my system! :)

Happy Holidays!
Robert
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