Rod, quoting a message on 29/06/93, from you to Phillip Dunne:

   >PE> I know you're a Telemate-die-hard, so maybe you could help
   >PE> Phillip  with a problem.

   >PD> There is no need for any help.  What I have been trying to
   >PD> do is show  Paul that the problem is his by using the
   >PD> process of "exhaustive"  elimination.

   RS> Yeah, when you put it like that, it does appear to be a
   RS> problem on Pauls. I havent seen it myself on uploads. OTOH I
   RS> normally only upload relatively small REPs. I did upload a
   RS> 300K a few days ago, but that was with the FrontDoor mailer.
   RS> It went fine. Corse that proves absolutely nothing about how
   RS> uploading thru Maximus would behave.

   Part of my response was a knee jerk reaction to Paul automatically declaring
the problem to be mine.  If we both wish to be obstinate, he can continue
listing callers that have no problems _uploading_, I can start namimg BBS
that I have _no_ problems with.  This doesn't really count for much in the
long run. Hell, the problem could be both our faults.

   RS> We have in the last couple of days, since Sunday am, seen an
   RS> odd effect where there appears to be nothing getting thru
   RS> from the his modem to the application. I logon, I see
   RS> Binkley's 'press esc' etc. It doesnt appear to see my ESC at
   RS> all and eventually times out and loads Maximus anyway. Then
   RS> Maximus just sits there with the 'What is your name:' and
   RS> never sees anything from me either.

   There is obviously more to running a BBS than dearchiving a program and
running the setup.  I wonder how many years (months?) it will take before
PE starts making Michael Butler sysop type sounds :).

   Phil.

   PS. Paul got my modem wrong, I have an E5 (the very last batch made) not an
E7.

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