Re: On The Twit List
  By: Nightfox to KK4QBN on Sat Sep 16 2017 16:07:30

 KK>> I'm better off learning for myself anyway.. I remember when one
 KK>> could pull 60 active systems up on the im list.. now were lucky to
 KK>> see 7.. thats not 

 Ni> I just had a look at the Synchronet BBS list
 Ni> (www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html) and it seems there are plenty more than 7
 Ni> up there. And that's just mainly Synchronet BBSes - There are other online
 Ni> BBS lists that probably include more BBSes.

I was speaking of the instant message list..

 KK>> because the BBS scene is going away, as a matter of fact, there is a
 KK>> resurgances of users calling BBS'es especialy ham radio operators
 KK>> and many other POT line users.. there is also a resurgance of the
 KK>> ANSI art scene.. 

 Ni> Yeah, there are a couple of BBS groups I follow on Facebook, and there is
 Ni> ANSI art posted in one or two of them regularly. It definitely seems the
 Ni> scene is still around.

If you're not following blocktronicks, you should, they have some beautiful
art. Florian Ochman created some Ansis for Warzone BBS and I lost them too
along with all my data, some source code for some lord IGMS i had created (very
cheesy ones but hey) and I was actually running an rlogin server that operated
pretty the way Marks BBSlink does now. at the time it had about 50 active
systems and some very competitive gameplay.. back then I never had time to
write messages besides answer peoples support messages. 

 KK>> And it can be stopped and should be stopped. Did you know the
 KK>> Twitlist feature come about because arguments between myself, Angus
 KK>> Mcleod, and another user.. I don't know where Angus is these days,
 KK>> but he would get very stubborn and bullheaded if you did'nt see
 KK>> something the way he did.. But he was NOTHING like this guy... 

We would argue over some of the dumbest things, but never resort to name
calling, or telling one another that we'll see their wife in hell, and it
always ended up usually with someting good coming out of it.. I liked Angus.

 Ni> I didn't realize that.. When was that? I started running Synchronet in
 Ni> 2007 and perhaps that happened before then?

Yeah it was before that, bit very close.. around I think 2003 or so.. If I'm
not mistaken the twitlist feature was Angus Idea.. "or a way to block a user on
sbbs was" I may be wrong.. it's been a while.. there was a time when DM (Rob)
actualy jumped in there and told us to stfu and get over our differences.. and
petty they were.. As my my always said though, it takes two to argues.. (I've
seen a dude get in an argument with a powerpole before) you see it all driving
a taxi :)

It appears you came on the scene right as I shut down Warzone BBS, it was
around that time when lightening hit my system and I was backing up on CD's at
the time, and the backup was no good.. Plus I was right in the middle of the
worse part of my active addiction (right before I hit rock bottom).

But yeah, If I can recall correctly, the twistlist was the brainchild of Angus.
maybe Rob would remember better.

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Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
KK4QBN BBS

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