Hi Maurice,

Fancy meeting you here   Just figured I'd post and say hi 

>> Dunno about the unix world, but I know that I keep hearing about
>> qedit here in the Fido world.

> Lean and mean.  Extremely functional too for it's size.  The version I
> used was ~60k but couldn't handle filesizes much greater than 500k which
> was never an issue.  Still isn't despite the bloated editors these days.

Qedit is one that never got used here much.. probably because I was in the
DOS world for such a short time, then switched to OS/2, then linux.. been
there since about 1995 I think (hard to remember ).

>> but I know I've heard others talk about using it with their
>> setups, still

> No surprise here.  If there was a Unix version I'd probably be using it.

I'll have to ask Nancy if it uses the Ctrl+? keys that PCDos's Wordstar
uses? If so, and if she's running linux she should try the joe editor..
it's very wordstar-ish .. crtl+K X to save, that kind of thing..

>> The death of BBSing has been touted for years, but it's still
>> chugging along

> Somewhat.  I still prefer them and will keep using them if it is
> possible to.

That's good :)

>> and I've noticed some oldtimers returning

> I saw that too.  Seems to happen in cycles although the peaks are lower
> and lower with each successive repeat.

Here's a look a the nodelist files since August, this includes all zones:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 162K 2009-08-13 23:51 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z26
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 162K 2009-08-20 23:45 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z33
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 162K 2009-08-27 23:46 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z40
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 163K 2009-09-03 23:46 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z47
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 181K 2009-09-10 23:45 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z54
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 162K 2009-09-17 23:52 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z61
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 163K 2009-09-24 23:45 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z68
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 163K 2009-10-02 00:01 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z75
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 163K 2009-10-08 23:56 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z82
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 142K 2009-10-15 23:55 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z89
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 160K 2009-10-22 23:46 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z96
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bbs bbs 141K 2009-10-29 23:45 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z03
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bbs bbs 141K 2009-11-05 23:46 /home/ftp/pub/nodelist/nodelist.z10

Ok pretty small compared to the "old days" but not reall much
change since august.  Now I happen to know that Region 15 in Zone 1 hasn't
been represented "fully" in the nodelist in at least the last 2
weeks.. that's why you see the drop in nodelists 303 and 310.  I expect
this week's nodelist to reflect the full region again since the problem was
found over there.  Not a lot of 'k' but every little bit helps .

Take care,
Janis

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