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

 KW> Back when I had a single-line DOS BBS, I started out
 KW> sneaker-netting BlueWave packets to my "home" box. 

i hear that... that's when i went hunting a memory card to add to my (at
that time 40mhz 286) system so i could get at least 2Meg of RAM in it and
run DESQview for multitasking... the BBS stayed running 24x7 in the first
task and i did everything else in the second task... that included all my
dBase/FOXbase development work on the accounting system we maintained ;)

 KW> As soon as I got a home network, I started logging in on a local 
 KW> node, just to keep in touch with what the users were seeing. If I 
 KW> have time, I'll still log in locally - now that I have 6 inbound 
 KW> telnet lines instead of one dialup.  :)

"yup... that's me", he says as he looks around at the eight
computers in this one room and thinks about the other five or six scattered
around the location...

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