-=> Quoting Sean Rima to Nancy Backus on 05-17-06  14:01 <=-

 NB> Unrelated (I think) to that weirdness, my normal Fido feed hasn't been
 NB> getting or sending messages out.  Turns out that he uses two different
 NB> feeds himself, the weirdnesses are probably related to the one feed, and
 NB> the lack of in/out is probably related to the other.  His feed for the
 NB> latter is Jack Yates who is off on vacation with the bbs on auto-pilot.
 NB> So, at the moment, I'm sending messages out from some of my backup bbs's
     (snipped)

 SR> I have seen this happen it is a pain as you never know what is going
 SR> on, are people ignoring you or what. Still at least you have it worked
 SR> out now 

Oh, I've been around Fido for years...  I learned to have always some
sort of backup to, if nothing else, see if my messages have made it out
anywhere else...   So I always have been getting my messages from at
least 2 bbs's, and always have my messages included in the packet. 
Messages were always going missing in the GENEALOGY echo... and since we
were looking for vital info (pun partly intended), we tended to check up
if there'd been no response... "Didn't you get my message? Should I
re-send?"  :)

But I tend to only send out from one bbs, usually...  until a time like
this.  And then I don't know how reliable or not a place is for sending
out messages until I actually try them out.  But, yes, I've got things
worked out pretty well now... for now, anyway...  

ttyl      neb

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