Hello, Nick.

Friday November 11 2011 at 08:05, you wrote to me:

 NA> Like I said before elsewhere - anyone who gets emotional or personally
 NA> angry over things that transpire in this hobby needs to find another
 NA> hobby to devote their free time to. Alas the events of Z1-vs-Z2, etc
 NA> etc as an example. Meanwhile in other nets like Scinet and yours,
 NA> there are people there who truly enjoy the hobby and get personal
 NA> satisfaction out of being a part of it.

I tend to take things too literally and it's just a personality flaw I have
to deal with.  This time around, I'm taking BBSing more as a fun hobby
than, as you said, the sole existence for my life.  Thank you for the
compliment, BTW. Even though I have a reputation for running my network
with an "iron fist", those who've been in the network for a while
know why I do what I do and if I get riled up, they just tell me to shut up
and cool off. ;)

 NA> Its been quite awhile now since I've gotten those messages but when I
 NA> did it was when I was programming BinkD support. I was flamed for "not
 NA> doing things the way Internet Rex does it" or "breaking
standards",
 NA> blah blah blah. None of which was ever proven or substantiated. Those
 NA> didn't come from Ward but from people who were using -other- mailers
 NA> like Frontdoor and Binkleyterm.

In the 14 years I've been running Internet Rex, I have not had a problem
with its BinkD server, including connecting to DB-based BinkD servers. 
Methinks it's a PEBKAC error rather than a programmer's error.  Having used
BinkleyTerm for that amount of time also, I'm wondering how a BinkleyTerm
mailer connects directly to a BinkD server since BinkD is a
semi-proprietary format that BT was never designed to support?!

On a side note, since I set up the guest account on my board, it gets used
quite a bit.  Not many have joined, unfortunately, but I guess it's because
I'm a rather terrible ANSI artist and keep my board a little stock-looking
(but it's certainly not stock "under the hood").

Later,
Sean

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