09-03-14 12:07 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Amateur Radio Newsline(tm

 RW> {at}MSGID: 
 RW> Greetings Ed!
Howdy! Roy,
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 RW> The next best thing you could do is log onto Mike's BBS and
 RW> browse the echo for messages that you couldn't get in your QWK
 RW> packets.

Mike has a HTTP page but I can't grab a .QWK Packet on it, and I
haven't learned much about Telnet to Log On that way.
I tried a few times with Hyperterminal, so He told me about using
net2ftp.com to get my BBS FIX, I liked using it and later figured out
how to Log On directly using FTP from a XP CMD Prompt with a .BAT file.
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 EV>> I read the ARN in the LS_ARRL echo on this BBS that I usually see

 RW> Does he still post what he receives from ARN without removing
 RW> the introduction line and each 'Break' included. I edit those
 RW> out for easier reading here.

Sure, I figure if a Ham used what Mike posted to read out over the air
that seeing where the Breaks are would be of help reminding of a
Station ID is needed.

 RW>> You don't read the contents of echoes in alphabetical order?
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 RW> If he did it right, his echoes should be in the same order as
 RW> either the echolist or backbone.na files. The echolist file is
 RW> in alphabetical order. Not sure about the backbone.na file.

FIDO isn't the only BBS System that Mike has access for messages, that
is why I switched from using Ed Koon Doc's Place BBS.

I read messages from the DOVE NETWORK, the GT-POWER NETWORK and also on
SYNCHRONET, and there may be another one of two FEEDS Mikes gets.

 EV> From what I can see in the .NDX files the Areas are not in Numerical
 EV> or Alphabetical Order. -snip-

 RW> That's weird.

Since His BBS subscribes to several BBS Networks it may be the echos
from each Network are grouped as one section and the echos from next
group comes in a section after the first one and so on.

I just had a idea, I saw a Email Address for You in the RULZ message,
I'll send a copy of the CONTROL.DAT file from a recent .QWK Packet for
You to look over.
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 RW>> The idea is to pick out a part of the post you're replying to
 RW>> and only quote that with your comments.

I am sometimes get lack and not use enought -SNIP-'s in messages.

 EV> If it is the message I sent Holger Thanking Him for giving the
 EV> Details of what the entries in those WWV Solar Report messages I
 EV> quoted the whole message because I noticed after I pressed the R Key
 EV> to start the Reply that the DATA was all jumbled up, but the DATA in
 EV> His Message was correctly formatted on the screen when I read it but
 EV> I didn't comment about that, I only Thanked Him for the Instructions.

 EV> Two Lines, Me Bad.

Probably the worse I've ever done, me writing the 2 lines to Holgers 32
line message.
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 EV>> Or is this the Final Notice???? ??

 RW>> Final Notice of what?

 EV> That I'm BANNED from Posting in this echo.

 RW> Ed, only obnoxious morons are banned from this or any other
 RW> echoes that I moderate. More specifically, those who have
 RW> failed to follow the guidelines posted here after several
 RW> warnings to shape up.

Am I getting close to be obnoxious?

I thought of You telling of getting a RF Burn from a 5 Watt XMTR when
Your Wife keyed the microphone while You were adjusting the match on
the antenna (CB?) was streaching the Truth just a bit.
So I would guess I've gotten at least two obnoxious point by now.... ..
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 RW> that, but the one msg that went overboard was you quoted an
 RW> entire msg that Holgar posted to add a three word comment to
 RW> it.

2 to 32.

 RW>> Question: Have you ever gone through the order of acception
 RW>> procedure of the Whouff Hong? I have and that's a scary thing
 RW>> to have in your past.

 EV> I stayed after the Midnight Hour at a Hamfest in San Mateo, CA to be
 EV> Initiated into the Secret Society of the Royal Order Of The Wouff
 EV> Hong.

 RW> Same here at a Hamfest in San Diego.

 EV> That's ALL that I can say about it in public.

 RW> Scared ya that bad eh...

The R.O.W.H. wouldn't be a Secret Society if I told anything I know
about it to outsiders, would it?

 EV> I have Great Fear of those three terrible instruments kept encased in
 EV> Newington, Conn. , but have learned that some others have built a
 EV> copy of some of those dreaded things and have posted pictures of
 EV> their handiwork on their web site.

 RW> Obviously fakes.

Maybe, but probably still capable of inflicting Harm on LIDs.

 EV> It is a fearful thing for me to go to a Hamfest thinking that someone
 EV> will see the Call Sign on my badge and pull one of those things out
 EV> and use it on me.

 RW> It isn't so bad...hurts for 2 or 3 seconds and then it goes
 RW> away.

Are You telling about a True Experience that You had?

No one has caught up with me yet to use it on me.
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