On 05/10/15, mark lewis said the following...
 
 ml>  AI> Since my desktop computer went down a week ago I am only 
 ml>  AI> contactable in an FTN way. This BBS computer doesn't have an 
 ml>  AI> x-server installed, it just runs the BBS and that's it. It's just 
 ml>  AI> like old times! :)
 ml> 
 ml> almost :)  you don't need any GUI stuff to be contactable by other means,
 ml> though... pine and other email/news readers work quite well in text only
 ml> environments :) 

That's what I did at one time, but I seem to have lost my getmail / sendmail
/ postfix foo, or however it was that I did it.. ;)

 ml> eg: messages arriving here have travel times from my links in seconds or
 ml> minutes... messages are processed here once an hour so delivery to local
 ml> accounts may take up to an hour... response time happens when the person
 ml> read and replies which may be days or weeks later depending on when they
 ml> connect and when/if they decide to respond at all ;) 
 
Response time is the slow one. There are times here that I recv'd a message
that required thought so I went by meaning to get back to it and either
couldn't find it or ... I try not to do that any more than it's really
neccessary.. :)

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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