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to: Maurice Kinal
from: Mike Miller
date: 2003-09-14 11:41:02
subject: bbs

Hello Maurice.

14 Sep 03 06:04, you wrote to me:

 MK> Hello Mike.

 MK> 13 Sep 03 23:26, you wrote to me:

 MK>>> Looks good.  You certainly have lots of echoes there that is for
 MK>>> sure.

 MM>> Heh, Actually, that's not even all of them! :)

 MK> That must take a bit of work to set it all up.

 Actually, Synchronet makes it quite easy.  it's splitting all those areas
up into groups that make it a pain :)


 MM>>   Yep, via the QWK menu ... If you download the QWK packet via
 MM>> FTP, you'll have to wait quite awhile the first time (unless you
 MM>> set all your pointers to 'read' as there will be quite a bit of
 MM>> mail :)

 MK> Heh, heh.  No doubt.  I am hoping to be a bit selective if you don't
 MK> mind.  I am thinking a few international ones might be a good idea as
 MK> I'd like to test some fonts here.  Part of what I am doing revolves
 MK> around framebuffer graphics and I'd like to test some GTK
 MK> schtuffenputten out.  Some of those echoes ought to make a good test.

 Sure thing, I'll add the rest of them in sometime today .. it's missing a
few pretty active echos.

 MK>>> I see you're a Cheesehead.  ;-)

 MM>>  Go Pack, Go! :)

 MK> A Cheesehead may have saved my life way back when, in the Yukon.  He
 MK> convinced me to sit and watch the the Packs play on ye ol' satellite
 MK> dish rather then go touring the hotsprings which were a bit south of
 MK> where we were.  We heard later that a bear attacked and killed a
 MK> number of people that day exactly where I had planned to go.

 MK> Who said drinking and watching TV was bad for you eh?  Certainly not
 MK> me.

 Drinking and watching TV? .. heck, the 'fridge is about 10 feet away from
my computer, and I have a TV-Tuner card.  Speaking of The Packers .. the
game is on in 15 minutes ... :)

 MM>> Ironically, I caught you logging on just as I was playing with
 MM>> DOSEMU (I'm trying to get some of the door games running.) It's a
 MM>> good thing I saw it too, because I was just about to shut the BBS
 MM>> down to bring it back up :)

 MK> I noticed a note there from you stating that doorgames would be up by
 MK> September. Better get on it eh?  ;-)

 Heh, and I wrote that sometime in early August! I've been busy taking over
the NC position for my Net .. now that i'm finally settled, I might have
some time to work on it :)


Mike

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