06-13-17 20:25 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Your email
Howdy! Holger,

 HG> {at}MSGID: 
 HG> In a message on Tuesday 06-12-17 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

 HG> GA Ed,

 HG> Areafix, Areamgr, Arealink and Allfix.

 EV> Those are new terms to me as a BBS User.

 EV> All I know is when I want to start reading a new (to me) echo I
 EV> (J)oin the echo.

 HG> IOW, you have subscribed to the entire list of echoes!
 HG> To remove inactive echoes that you have subscribed to, you also use one
 HG> or the other of above programs.

No, I haven't subscribed to all of the echoes on this BBS.
At least the last time I checked to see.
Mike Powell, the SysOp of this BBS has more than just the FIDO echoes on
this BBS.

There are at least five other BBS Networks that I can read their messages.

GT_POWER, DoveNEt, MicroLink, IL-Net and FSX Net.

October 2016 is when I first saw messages in my .QWK Packets in FSX Net
echoes.

Mike Joined (or Subscribed) some of their echoes for my account for me then.
Surprise!, Surprise! I got more to read now.

 HG> You don't have to have the programmes yourself, your BBS sysop has
 HG> them. To use any of them, you have to have a password that usually is
 HG> agreed on with the BBS sysop when you set up an account with him (the
 HG> BBS).

Yes, I knew that You were speaking of Commands running on the SysOps BBS
program.
I'd just never remember seeing those b4.

 HG> Maybe you have lost the file where all your settings with the sysop
 HG> are.

I never had that file, my settings are on Mikes BBS Machine, I just connect -
enter my password and use His BBS.

 EV> Probably if I Logged On using TELNET I could look around to see if I
 EV> could find those Areafix, Areamgr, Arealink and Allfix Commands and
 EV> learn something about them.

 HG> Even as any user you can ask for the commands for the program your
 HG> sysop prefers, and the password required to use the commands.

I never asked to be a Co-Sysop, even though I have wrote Mike when I thought
I saw a problem while using the BBS.

 EV> By 'Host' do You mean a BBS or Echo on the BBS?

 HG> The Host is the BBS that delivers the areas you want to read/write in.

I just call a BBS a BBS, don't remember seeing the word Host to mean a BBS.
DUH!

 HG> The more surprising to me, is that you passed the free Win10 offer.

 EV> Usually I don't leap when I hear about something new to me.

 HG> Neiher do I, but when I read/hear something is free, I take note.

I can understand downloading a file/program from a well known Company,
there are a lot of so called Free download offers from others that might
have a catch to it, like Malware - etc., but being offered by Microsoft
would seem to be something safe.........

 EV> SP3 is the last major update that it has on it.

 HG> Yes SP3 is last update to XP and newer ones will not be forthcoming.

Wcry changed that, didn't it?

73 de Ed W9ODR   .    .


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