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to: Benny Pedersen
from: Bo Simonsen
date: 2004-01-14 17:30:40
subject: okay!

Benny Pedersen wrote to Bo Simonsen about ''okay!'':

 BS>>>> Okay, in someways X is good, but in some it's not.
 MK>>> In my case I am not a big fan of GUIs no matter what OS.
 BS>> Me neither.

 BP> i can keep my amiga then :-)

GUI is good for something, I can live with that the most of Linux is
textbased, because the applications is suitable there.

 BS>>>> Oh like "someone" is telling a alchoholic to
drink beer?
 MK>>> Heh, heh.  Sure.  Close enough.
 BS>> :-)

 BP> well its more like one that do not smoke telling one to stop
 BP> smoking :-) 

Haha.

 BP> most says it impossible to stop, for me its impossible to begin :-)

 BS>>>> I ran MBSE as ION just perfectly.
 MK>>> Really?  How did you handle the configuration?  I only noticed
 MK>>> serial connections in there.  Currently my box only networks on
 MK>>> eth0. 
 BS>> By mbsetup? The BBS/Mailer is beeing called from inetd, and IF you 
 BS>> have POTS you call it from mgetty.

 BP> mgetty is evil for me :-)

Well I do better like a mailer which is talking directly to the Modem.

 BP> why is mgetty needed in the first place ?

Huh?

 BS>>>> Okay. Well we need some work on maximus, and the
project is open, so
 BS>>>> you can do with it what you want :-)
 MK>>> :-)  I'll get there yet.
 BS>> :-)

 BP> well maximus is dos, so it can be extended :-)

Haha, it's allready telnet is a good improvement. I thought about if I
should implement e-mailing and so, but it doesn't make sense to me, because
soupgate/irex can do it.

 MK>>>>>  + Origin: Pointy Stick Society XV (1:261/38.9)
 BS>>>> Huh why not your nodenumber?
 MK>>> Hey!  It got there first.  The message I am responding to now got
 MK>>> to the node first. First come, first serve.  :-)
 BS>> Heh. Round Robin? :-)

 BP> point as a very kind sysop :-)

Hehe.

 MK>>> If you look at the bottom it is now the node.  I am special.  :-) 
 BS>> Indeed :)

 BP> time for cvsup setup here, i just begin using it on redhat, part of
 BP> bsd system, just have to find how-to use on redhat

cvsup is?

Bo

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