-=> PETER COGGON wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-



 TL> That too.  Though they obviously don't "get it", because
BBSs and the
 TL> Internet work rather well together.  Just got DOVE Net going on mine.

 PC>   I's really have to look closely at Networks, since via the Internet
 PC> users can go just about anywhere, and access lots of BBSes for the
 PC> same network....if they like reading their own messages...who knows
 PC> birds like looking in a mirror :)

Hehe, know that feeling, been seeing my own messages pop up on other boards!
LOL  But then again, that's no different to looking at your post on Usenet from
a different server. :) 

 TL> As for Fido, well I have a quandry that wasn't anticipated.  Am I in
 TL> Zone 1 or Zone 3?  Well, the BBS is in Atlanta, but I'm 10000 miles
 TL> away.  An underlying assumption in Fido policy is that the sysop and
 TL> the board are in the same location (Oops, broke that one severely ;) ).

 PC>    I wouldn't even know which zone I was in :)

Umm, 1 for you... ;) 

 PC>   You forgot hydro.   I was looking too at the latest ADSL and have all

 TL> Hydro?

 PC>   Yeah you forgot electric bill to run the pc  24/7...  I
 PC> noted the drop in the bill when I closed my BBS last year, after
 PC> the pc died of old age... :)

No wonder it didn't make sense, our base load comes from brown coal... ;) 


 PC>   Hmmm...sort of like sometimes wandering through to see who's on...I
 PC> would like it all located at home..like the radio bbs.

Oh, that can be interesting, but don't have the time I used to, so having it
sit in a rack somewhere in Atlanta is kinda convenient. :-)

 TL> Me too, my system has a node number of 1046 (and no, I didn't buy that
 TL> one in the vanity program).

 PC>   WOW you are an early user of I-link.   I only got into it due to
 PC> a ham in Brampton Ontario making up the link boards, and we got
 PC> to try one out...it was neat to have people from all over come
 PC> via the repeater...just a load of fun...

Well, I didn't hook up the RF until Echolink came out, but I did play a little
from the PC.  Now, I use a VA3TO box on the RF only system (which runs on
144.310 SSB :) )

 TL> I never really liked Wildcat myself (at least as a user).  Synchronet
 TL> is quite good.

 PC>   I had Spitfire 3.0 to 3.6   had Wildcat ver410 t0 420, there were
 PC> some nice features to each.    Some others I tried were always missing
 PC> things and needed this and that module...so we stuck with Wildcat 420
 PC> for a few years ...ending in the pc death in 2005 and of course the
 PC> BBS.

 PC>    Thanks Tony ...going to see if I can find the most up to date
 PC> version and give it a try...

Synch is also under active development.  I'm running the latest version on my
board.  I originally used RA, looked at EleBBS in recent times, but the feature
set of Synchronet looked far superior, so I went with that.



73 de VK3JED
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