-=> Quoting James Bradley to Nancy Backus on 13 Jan 09  20:17:00 <=-

 JB> I forgot to say, thanks. Like I told Jim, "Doin' what I can with what
 JB> I gots."  Seeing as this message began and ends with BW as the
 JB> topic, I figured I'd move it here before that snarley dog gets
 JB> awaken. 

That's all anyone can do.  :)   The mod over there isn't nearly so
worried about off-topic any more, especially since now he's only co-mod
and turned the reins over to Joe...  ;)  (Also since traffic is way down
most of the time... but that's the case over here, too... and a bit of
traffic never hurts... )

 JB> Maybe Art will follow. 

'Twould be nice...  dunno if Art's got this tagged, though...??

 JB>> of those vortices, 2009 might still be salvageable.
 NB>> One can certainly hope.  :)

 JB> Pictures at eleven (months). 0-8*

;)

 JB> That reluctant one-ton cut-away "Handy" bus, was not too handy as a
 JB> commuter vehicle, so I was starting to run out of
"lemons". 

Ah. 

 NB>> Good luck on your mobilization efforts, actually... :)

 JB> Just filed down a Toyota alternator, and crammed it into the 4WD
 JB> Subaru puddle-jumper.  The list just got shorter!

Good for you.  :)  Congrats... :)

 JB>> It's still my choice for a reader, even though I can't use the door
 JB>> features locally.
 NB>> Likewise, at least for quite awhile, I'd been using it only with QWK

 JB> My guy will not put in the fudged door, as it can't be endorsed by the
 JB> author. /-: 

That is his choice... 

 JB> I was still happy to use QWK packets. Provided I didn't add
 JB> or delete areas before uploading an existing reply, the message usually
 JB> got out to the intended area. Oddly, I had a message ready to fly for
 JB> Linux and added an area before I uploaded it. That message was hence
 JB> shuffled to Memories.  

That's never happened to me.  Odd that...  Only time I knew that adding
or subtracting an echo would affect where the messages get shuffled was
when the sysop did so, and the areas got different numbers...  The QWK
packet areas depend on the numbers, not the echotags, quite often
anyway...  If the numbers didn't change in the door, it shouldn't have
affected your upload, even if you added or subtracted which available
echoes you were going to d/l...  Were you perhaps adding an area that
was new to the bbs?  That could have been a coincidental change of
numbers there that then affected your u/l...

 NB>> packets... lately, though, a couple of bbs's I frequent have had either
 NB>> real BW doors or compatible ones (OLMS), so I've been using it both
 NB>> ways.  Never have done much with the keyword or filter stuff though,
 NB>> just never had enough free time to sit down and work it all out, and it
 NB>> doesn't make that much difference for me anyway... I can just ignore
 NB>> messages I don't care for, and usually read everything anyway from
 NB>> anything I download... :)

 JB> I miss most, the offline area tagging. Having never used the

I only have used the offline area tagging occasionally... Usually I do
it when I'm in the door... especially if I think I might have to adjust
how many messages there for the first d/l... :)

 JB> twit-filter, indicates I was on plenty.  I was using
 JB> f'req quite a bit back when I ran a board.

I wasn't much of a file person...  mostly it's been messages, so of
course the BW reader was a must...  it's what actually made reading
genealogy messages feasible back in the days of 500+ per day... as well
as being able to craft replies there... rather important when you really
want things to be right...

 JB> ... I'm not totally worthless. I can serve as a bad example!

Ah, yes...  there's a number of us around...  

ttyl       neb

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