Dang, eulogies Scott?

Ok, so we have no more releases.  I think we kinda knew that.  We have only
one ¨outstanding 'issue' which is the soft-CR handling.  No other aspect of
our ¨current operations causes any problem.

A 3rd party util might be able to handle that.

I've spent 6 of my last 9 years at sea and i can tell you, there is NO
package ¨as solid in performance on automation as TG.  You'd have to kill
the physical ¨HW of my BBS to kill it's operation.  I just finished an 8.5
month deployment ¨to the Arabian Gulf without a bip.  The only time the
system was even rebooted ¨was when we had a power outage in Sasebo and it
came up like a champ with no ¨human intervention.

Sure, I'm peeking at other softwares with integreted IP technology, but so
far, ¨none of them run without human intervention at least once a week.  My
lifestyle ¨and Fidonet job (Z6C) do not allow me to just 'play and let it
crash'

Yet I'll tell my tale.  I first took to TG in 1988 from a fellow sysop who
¨passed me the software.  I was a bad boy as I didnt know it was an
unauthorized ¨version and ran it.  Some beta version that wasnt supposed to
go out.  I found ¨out and shifted to the legal copy but still had many
other sysops telling me it ¨was a hack of WWIV and i was a 'bad girl'. I
didnt care really.  I took it to ¨many new sysops and got many started
though I never required one run TG to be a ¨point off me (had 20 points at
a time back then, all sysops just testing til ¨ready then moving on to node
status when they were comfortable).

The fellow that passed me the illegal version was a bad guy and my computer
was ¨taken for investigation for a 2 day stint but i didnt have anything
bad and ¨told the cops all I knew.  (he was into other stuff, like drugs
and such which ¨i hadnt known and would have never associated with him had
I known).  I got my ¨system back and asked if I could be on the beta team
even though I had not been ¨in operation as long as required yet for that
time.

I got added.  Later, they cut the beta team to just 20 and I was *way*
suprised ¨to make that cut.  Grin, I think Martin just wanted a 'girl' but
not sure.  He ¨added another about the same time. Perry.

I kept with it.  I was the first to tell Martin to pack sand about that
TGnet ¨(not same as todays version) when I started getting obsene phone
calls from the ¨then owner (perry got same, 2 am drunk idiot).  I dove off
and back to Fido for ¨the echo and everyone followed on the beta team.

Been pretty quiet since then til a once R13C pissed me off by deleting
Tim's ¨net and Tim, the week after he sent the Y2K update.  That made a
hash for my ¨then RC13 stuff for as long as he lasted, but he is long gone
and i'm still ¨here (R13--R12 battles).  Guy was a ditz and we are well
shut of him (the then ¨R12C).

Nuf on this.
                                       xxcarol

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