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echo: maximus
to: GLENN CHRISTENSEN
from: PATRICK MCCULLOUGH
date: 1997-09-29 07:45:00
subject: `MAX` vs. Maximus

 Glenn Christensen wrote in a message to Patrick Mccullough:
PM> I only ever got RIP to work *once* during a test call to my system...
PM> was hard enough finding someone who had a RIP-capable term program,
PM> and harder still convincing them to let me watch over their shoulder.
PM> The fun part was watching the RIP protocol lock up and crash the board
PM> with me 45 minutes away.  :(
PM> Crashing seemed to be par for the course with RIP
GC> Hummm? I used it through two versions of Maximus with nary a
GC> problem. And I'd done some RIP screen editing also (what a bear!)
 Looks like your mileage varied.  ;)
 All RIP ever did for me was crash, both for callers TO my bbs, and
 when I called other BBSs with RIP-capable comm programs (two different
 ones).
GC> Finally killed it with 3.1 because I got tired of not being able to
GC> see what people were about on my BBS.  I'll bring it back when
GC> Max lets me watch. ___
 That's the other reason I disliked it.  Call me nosy.   
 Patrick
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* Origin: Layzner SPT-LZ-00X (1:133/1024)

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