On Tue, 31 Dec 2013, Mark Hofmann wrote to Mark Lewis:

ml> i/we know that mark is running WWIV... but i asked what BBS 
ml> software /you/ were running, jimmy ;)

 MH> Jim is running WWIV, too.  

excellent!

 MH> We have taken some big steps forward in the last few weeks
 MH> concerning WWIV.   

that's good news, too!

 MH> WWIVnet will be returning as we have the networking software
 MH> working and updated for our current environments these days.  I
 MH> have the latest WINS source code and have been updating, fixing,

WINS??

 MH> and compiling updates over the past few days.  We have a native
 MH> WWIV network back up and working on the software. 

this is good news... i really hate to have seen so many of the pioneering
networking technologies fall and die... WWIV, RIME/PCRelay and others...
each with their own original methods and capabilities...

FWIW: WWIV moderated message areas were the closest to usenet moderated
newsgroups in that each post to a moderated area was sent to the moderator
via private mail for approval and posting to the area or rejection with or
without a post to the sender for the rejection... in a way, i wish that FTN
had had proactive moderation instead of reactive moderation... proactive
would have completely prevented a lot of the crap posting wars that FTN
networks are known for... on the reverse side, i don't know that i would
want to have been a moderator for an active (eg: 500+ messages per day)
message area back in the day ;)

)\/(ark

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