HI Anne,

Anne Page wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

 > Were you accessing fido through the same system you are now?  Just curious
 > about that one.  IF so, frank's ben around a long time, and is in fact a for

AP> No I wasn't.  All of this moderator stuff happened before Frank had
AP> telnet access to CCS or I would have been here.  He and I were
AP> virtual friends and he helped me learn a lot about Fidonet but I
AP> didn't involve him in the echo matter because I had contacted Thom
AP> directly (just couldn't remember his name when I first started
AP> posting in here about what happened) and asked him to contact the
AP> person who was automagically updating the echo at the request of
AP> Elvis H.  I came to CCS the day after Frank told me he had working
AP> telnet access.  I was dialing up Commport which is local to me and
AP> telnetting from there to CCS until my old WIN 3.1 that I got in 1993
AP> finally crashed in spring of 2004. LOL.  And everything about the
AP> Doghouse Echo stuff happened before I could even telnet to CCS.

That explains a lot.  I note TOm might or might not respond to netmails,
and his robot only responds with general info to requests from folks who
don't have passwords to update echoes, etc. AT least it got sorted out and
this one remained backboned.  this echo was available to me but not to my
bbs back in southeastern Iowa as I fed it to a downlink if I recall.

AS you said, we should probably take this discussion to private since
others don't care.  does your host sysop give you netmail access?

TO keep this topical, exposed surfaces iced up this morning here where I
live in SW TEnnessee. My poor rott went out for her morning constitutional
and I slid down the ramp to get the cable to secure her. THen I had to use
my handy dandy bic lighter to thaw out the clasp so that it would open to
go on the ring of her collar. tHen to let her back in, unwrap her from the
post holding the railing of the ramp up; convince her to stand still so I
could thaw out clasp again with lighter. got her to unwrap herself enough
to put her in stand stay and go to work.

Regards,
           Richard
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