-=> Quoting Sean Dennis to Nancy Backus on 19 Jan 09  19:56:24 <=-

 Hi, Sean.

 NB>> The only point I was making (here, and in MEMORIES) was that there are
 NB>> a number of people here, even when they are invisible...  Most of us
 NB>> are lurking, still mostly in that genteel mode we learned back when
 NB>> almost all the echoes were bustling places, to speak only when spoken
 NB>> to or when we had something vital to offer...  :)

 SD> There's actually quite a few boards carrying this echo according to
 SD> the SEEN-BY lines. 

I'm sure there are...  Of course, that doesn't mean that everyone is
actually reading the area, they might just have it on the board JIC
someone wants to tag it.  :)  But, even just judging from the people
that poke their heads out, so to speak, when a conversation gets going,
I know that there are more than appear that have it tagged and would
notice if anything showed up here.  (BBS Carnival is another such
place... )

 SD> Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the BW door to work with Maximus
 SD> correctly and I'm not sure quite why.  I'm in the middle of moving to

I can't give you any specific help there, but I can tell you that
JUXTAPOSITION bbs, Steve Monteith is the sysop, is running Maximus and
has a well-working BW door going.  I've used it for both down- and
up-loads successfully, both locally and in echos.  Dunno what version he
has, though... and I've seen some Y2K minor weirdnesses in the local
message area from other people that may have something else wrong with
their own set-ups... my messages never have those glitches.  I have his
email addy (it's also posted on the bbs), I could share it with you if
you wanted to see if he could help at all...  Maximus was one of the few
(maybe the only?) bbs softwares that had a working door soon after y2k,
IIRC... 

 SD> Tennessee (I actually have to be out of this apartment here in Georgia
 SD> on Saturday), but when things settle down up there I'll give it a try
 SD> again if the Y2K problems don't curtail it completely. 

Yes, I've been reading your notes various places about the move etc.. :) 
Hope it all goes smoothly... :)  (And I hope that your bronchitis clears
up completely and soon...)  If you can't get hold of Steve, there's a
few places that you can get the package my husband put together, a fixed
TG BW door and the instructions for fixing any other BW door, along with
a reader that doesn't need a y2k patch to do qwk packets, and has other
cosmetic y2k fixes as well.

 NB>> from now...  It just happens to be the one where I first was
 NB>> introduced to BW, too.  

 SD> You're calling Mike's board, right?  Running Telegard?  I have a

Now that he's back up, yes... :)  And yes, he's running TG now. 
(Hubby's TG fix was a favor to Mike, btw.  The reader was for my
benefit... )  I also call (and read/reply from) a few other boards..
Doc's, Fidotel, Waldo's, Juxta, Chowda etc... and a few read-only boards
(at least at the moment) like Tbolt and Curmudgeon's Place...

 SD> history with Telegard (in fact if you look, I'm mentioned in the
 SD> documentation), but I'm sticking with Maximus for now.  After all,
 SD> after my accident last April, I hadn't really touched the BBS for
 SD> nearly a year and it ran fine without my intervention. 

That's a good endorsement for the software...   The very first board
I tried at all was a Maximus board, Flower City Central.  I didn't get
the hang of messaging, though, until I was introduced to BW (and Zmodem)
by Mike...  ;)

 NB>> And now we have telnet, mostly instead of dial-up (except in a few
 NB>> cases that also have dialup)... and we have a wider range to find
 NB>> bbses to call into... if far fewer...

 SD> When I move, I'll be adding a dial-up line, just because.  I may
 SD> actually start using it for mail transfer too-the Internet has become
 SD> incredibly crowded over the past ten years. 

I've always liked local dial-up...  Since we don't have free
long-distance, though, I'm not much for ld dial-up, except in an
emergency situation... for ld, I'd rather telnet (now that I've learned
it...  ).

 SD> ... WinErr 01F: Reserved for future mistakes of our developers.

Nice one...   :)

ttyl        neb

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