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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Allen Prunty
from: Rob Swindell
date: 2016-05-18 20:19:06
subject: Re: SearchLight

Re: Re: SearchLight
  By: Allen Prunty to Matt Munson on Wed May 18 2016 10:30 pm

 > ->  RW(> Hi all!  I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling
 > ->  RW(> with SearchLight anymore these days and still
connected to FidoNet?
 > -> Maybe because Telegraphix ruined Searchlight there is not that many
 > -> people using it.
 >
 > Wasn't searchlight the guys who developed RIP or was it NAPLIPS (not
 > sure on that one)

The same guy (Pat Clawson) that *bought* the RIPscrip software (didn't develop
it) then later bought SearchLight BBS software (from a very nice guy, Frank
LaRosa). Pat is a pretty universally disliked guy in the BBS community,
however.

                                            digital man

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