Re: Hrm.
  By: mark lewis to Nicholas Boel on Sat Dec 01 2012 04:07 pm

 >  ml> ever wonder why may sysops running BBS' also use an external message
 >  ml> reader? in my case it is so i can read and reply without blocking any
 >  ml> users from accessing the BBS'... it is done completely outside the BBS
 >  ml> and so is strictly message related... no going thru the bulletins or
 >  ml> news or new files lists or such... i do check the BBS like that from
 >  ml> time to time but there's no reason for me to do such once a day let
 >  ml> alone multiple times a day ;)

Back when I had a single-line DOS BBS, I started out sneaker-netting BlueWave
packets to my "home" box. As soon as I got a home network, I
started logging
in on a local node, just to keep in touch with what the users were seeing. If I
have time, I'll still log in locally - now that I have 6 inbound telnet lines
instead of one dialup.  :)

--kW
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