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echo: bluewave
to: Nancy Backus
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 2004-04-15 17:57:02
subject: bbs was Re: Addy.

-=> Quoting Nancy Backus to Mark Lewis <=-

 NB> IIRC, the Bluewave door was* based on the areaname.  I know there were
 NB> some BW-compatible doors (not the original GH ones) that were still
 NB> working after the Y2K fixes..  EleBBS had one built in that handled BW
 NB> packets natively, not as QWK packets.  (That's what my last local
 NB> homebase bbs was using before he closed down...)

Actually, the doors were based on whatever the BBS software used. The
ones for "Hudson" messagebases were all based on the area number. 

The door for my BBS is one of George's and is busted as far as y2k is
concerned. So I wrote a program that I could run after the door to fix
the dates. 


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