-=> Quoting Carol Shenkenberger to Scott Adams <=-

 CS> Dang, eulogies Scott?

        Its more a tribute to a fine piece of software that has
        been almost part of the family for 2 decades :)

 CS> Ok, so we have no more releases.  I think we kinda knew that.  We have
 CS> only one outstanding 'issue' which is the soft-CR handling.  No other
 CS> aspect of our current operations causes any problem. 
 CS> A 3rd party util might be able to handle that.

        I'm sure someone could modify the JAM bases.  

 CS> Yet I'll tell my tale.  I first took to TG in 1988 from a fellow sysop
 CS> who passed me the software.  I was a bad boy as I didnt know it was an
 CS> unauthorized version and ran it.  Some beta version that wasnt
 CS> supposed to go out.  I found out and shifted to the legal copy but
 CS> still had many other sysops telling me it was a hack of WWIV and i was
 CS> a 'bad girl'. I didnt care really.  I took it to many new sysops and
 CS> got many started though I never required one run TG to be a point off
 CS> me (had 20 points at a time back then, all sysops just testing til
 CS> ready then moving on to node status when they were comfortable). 
 CS> The fellow that passed me the illegal version was a bad guy and my
 CS> computer was taken for investigation for a 2 day stint but i didnt
 CS> have anything bad and told the cops all I knew.  (he was into other
 CS> stuff, like drugs and such which i hadnt known and would have never
 CS> associated with him had I known).  I got my system back and asked if I
 CS> could be on the beta team even though I had not been in operation as
 CS> lo  ng as required yet for that time.

       TG has a bad boy past! :)..j/k 

 CS> I got added.  Later, they cut the beta team to just 20 and I was *way*
 CS> suprised to make that cut.  Grin, I think Martin just wanted a 'girl'
 CS> but not sure.  He added another about the same time. Perry. 
 CS> I kept with it.  I was the first to tell Martin to pack sand about
 CS> that TGnet (not same as todays version) when I started getting obsene
 CS> phone calls from the then owner (perry got same, 2 am drunk idiot).  I
 CS> dove off and back to Fido for the echo and everyone followed on the
 CS> beta team.

        Martin...boy those were the days :)

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

        Been many good times.  Many good folks.  Many good years
        on the beta team.  Many good irc chats.  I'll run TG
        for the rest of my bbs life for sure.


... "I remember when you first came to me." - Delenn
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