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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Nick Andre
from: T.J. Mcmillen
date: 2011-08-05 22:20:14
subject: Re: Door Idea - SysOp Checklist?

MH> What is interesting is that being a BBS sysop back in the late 80s/early 9
MH> was "cutting edge".  In some ways, it still is - since we
have continued t
MH> manage getting all thsi stuff to work through the years.. :)
NA> 
NA> Or in my case, the extremes I'll go through to ensure that the system runs
NA> auto-pilot without my intervention.

I remember having my FrontDoor batch file do EVERYTHING.  It was like 27K big 
at one point.  Commented and such, so if I die, the BBS would run by itself 
until the power was shut off. ;)  Plus, with every "section"
commented on what
it did, almost anyone could pikc right up and see how it works.

Ahh .. mispent youth. ;)

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