-=> Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 11-26-14  01:40 <=-

 DS>> I had to do a fresh install of Windows XP. I tried to fix a
 DS>> corrupted device driver, and crashed the system. When I rebooted, XP
 DS>> would not let me use it, because "it hadn't been activated", and I was
 DS>> never given the chance to.
 NB>>Not nice.

 DS> Then to add to it, I spent all day Tuesday rebuilding message areas
 DS> in trying to get a new message network online. I think the problem
 DS> was at the hub system...but, I discovered I had duplicate deals for
 DS> several echoes, and I had to go through over 500 areas (the original
 DS> purpose for BBS's was messages), and remove those. I didn't get a
 DS> chance to eat until after I finished 3 ham radio nets at mid-evening.

Busy, busy...  I've always seen bbses as primarily for messages, and
only secondarily for games and/or files.  

 DS> A nightmare and thirst woke me, so I got up to see if maintenance
 DS> had run...a batchfile glitch had skipped the echomail and netmail part
 DS> of it, so I had to do that again. Never a dull moment being a Sysop
 DS> (sigh!).

Always something else needing to be done... :)

ttyl         neb

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