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echo: bluewave
to: Nancy Backus
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 2004-06-02 00:47:02
subject: Re: bbs

-=> Quoting Nancy Backus to Leonard Erickson <=-

 -=> Quoting Leonard Erickson to Nancy Backus on 05-19-04  14:52 <=-
 
 LE> The door for my BBS is one of George's and is busted as far as y2k is
 LE> concerned. So I wrote a program that I could run after the door to fix
 LE> the dates. 
 
 NB> Are you accessible via telnet?  Not sure where you are, but you are
 NB> certainly long-distance from me, here in Rochester NY.  I'd love to be
 NB> able to use BW packets again instead of QWK... :)
 
 LE> Well, I'm running BBS software as a way to get BW packets from Fidonet
 LE> PKTs, but it's not even available dial-up, much less telnet. Sorry.

 NB> Ah.  I see...  Have you made your date-fixer program available to
 NB> others using the BW doors?

I made it available in the a[[eopriate file echos back in 2000.

But it fixes things in the BBS message base, so it only is of use on
BBSes that use the QuickBBS (aka 'Hudson') messagebase format or ones
that use the Goldbase format the last versions of QuickBBS had as an option.

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