It's not about Khontrol, it's simply a place for sysops to discuss what they want to discuss with other sysops.

In a way I agree with you. It's not good to show our BBS users how despicably bad some sysops act on a regular basis. But then again, it's just as bad in the open echoes, only there you usually don't know who are sysops.

Some returnees here on my BBS have left again, saying "I thought it was bad when I left, now it's been getting even worse".

The subject line still is very relevant...


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13 Nov 2022 19:36, you wrote to me:

If my memory serves me correctly it was available on a read-only
basis, at least for zone-2 points, in the early 90s.

That matches my memory. Under Ron Dwight, it was available for read by
Z2 points.

I have a poor memory but I remember that my boss was a bit reluctant at first, when I asked him for a link to ENET.SYSOP :-)

Carlos

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It's not about Khontrol, it's simply a place for sysops to discuss what
they want to discuss with other sysops.

In a way I agree with you. It's not good to show our BBS users how
despicably bad some sysops act on a regular basis. But then again, it's just as bad in the open echoes, only there you usually don't know who are sysops.

What despicably bad sysops?

You are right, you should not show BBS users the sysop areas.

Some returnees here on my BBS have left again, saying "I thought it was bad when I left, now it's been getting even worse".

What returnees?

The subject line still is very relevant...

So it is.

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Hello Carlos,

On Tuesday November 15 2022 07:34, you wrote to me:

That matches my memory. Under Ron Dwight, it was available for
read by Z2 points.

I have a poor memory but I remember that my boss was a bit reluctant
at first, when I asked him for a link to ENET.SYSOP :-)

I did not have to ask mine, I could simply areafix it. ;-)


Cheers, Michiel

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What despicably bad sysops?

Seriously? Did you miss all of it? Like wishing cancer and even death upon another sysop and all the other insults after it was pointed out that we suddenly had a duplicate net in our nodelist?


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13 Nov 2022 12:58, you wrote to me:

Indeed. But it can be a "sysop echo" or a "sysop only echo"
depending on its rules...

Yep, this area is (or was) sysop only.

The most recent rules I've found were posted by Björn in 2016. It's not clear to me if read access was restricted to sysops only.

I'm not sure where this read only idea comes from but when this
area was created all those years ago it was setup that way.

Perhaps that was FIDO_SYSOP? (Just asking, I don't really know.)

This is the original sysop echo. FIDO_SYSOP came a little later.

Ah yes, I found FN_SYSOP in an areafix list from an uplink I had, dated 1995. I think I didn't have it linked (at least for long), I guess it had too much traffic for me back then...

BTW there was also SYSOP ...

FIDO_SYSOP was created by a russian node and was private distribution
in it's easrly days.

Interesting :-)

Carlos

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13 Nov 2022 10:26, you wrote to Ward Dossche:

It's a BBS thing ... I run a node and an editor, sysops can link in
if they so desire...

True, on a BBS you need to set permissions. If you are operating a
node there is no need.

Yes, if you have points. ;-)

Carlos

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15 Nov 2022 11:28, you wrote to me:

I have a poor memory but I remember that my boss was a bit
reluctant at first, when I asked him for a link to ENET.SYSOP :-)

I did not have to ask mine, I could simply areafix it. ;-)

I suppose that mine had it in a separate, sysop-only group in his tosser. :-)

Carlos

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Hello Alan,

It's not about Khontrol, it's simply a place for sysops to discuss what
they want to discuss with other sysops.

Yes, it is. There is absolutely no doubt it is about Khontrol.

What Khontrol is it that you speak of?

Only the kind that fools believe.

A meeting is when people get together for any reason. An echo is
an area for people to get together, for any reason. You have stated
yourself this is such an echo - a place for sysops to discuss what
they want to discuss with other sysops.

So far, so good. That is a concept I believe all can agree on.

Good.

Sysops are able to do that now. in this echo, and elsewhere.
And yet, you claim not to be a happy camper.

But that is not the question.

I see a deflection coming on.

Not at all.

What you are suggesting is for sysops to have meetings in secret.
Where only they can play. With nobody else around.

We are not meeting in secret. We are having a discussion amongst ourselves.

With others present. Which is what your gripe is, and of which
you have been unable to explain why.

When sysops are sneeking to meet, notably as secret lovers, it is
called a *tryst*. Do you understand what the origin of the word is?

I understand the word but you are using it incorrectly. We are not lovers or
sneaking anything.

My apologies for the typo. The word is "seeking" - as it is very
clear there are others aside from sysops who are present in this echo.

The word comes from Middle English, and originally referred to a
designated hunting station.

There is no hunt.

The word "tryst" means "a designated hunting station" - not that
there is necessarily anything to hunt or worth hunting.

IOW, a place to meet, in secret, to do things only sysops would want
to do amongst themselves.

But every time they try to gather, somebody lets the sunshine in,
and we all know what happens next.

No, the echo is leaking. You are not the first leak and you won't be the last.

Do you beat your meat?

Be honest.
You're a guy.

But to do it as a group ...
With others watching ...

Now that is what I call the greatest show on earth!

Even though nobody could beat Jim Morrison's act ...

"I can do anything!" ~Jim Morrison

For Life,
Lee

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On 15 Nov 22 12:45:56, Bj*Rn Felten said the following to Alan Ianson:

Seriously? Did you miss all of it? Like wishing cancer and even death up another sysop and all the other insults after it was pointed out that we suddenly had a duplicate net in our nodelist?

LOL absolutely hilarious... when one considers 20+ years of anti-American rhetoric directed this way and your wonderful remarks after the passings of Ben Ritchey and your alter-ego musings about Roger Nelson.

All of which you were roundly flamed over, but you proudly showed off your free pass at the time with your "free speech system", if we don't like it
we were to hit the Next key.... etc etc

So I really love your recent effeminate whining in the IC echo over Net 229. Nothing will ever happen except your eventual grand-departure. Until that lovely day happens, natural causes or not (preferably the latter) may the pot offer some Military Industrial Complex Sitcom Canned Laughter for the kettle?

Nick

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Bj”rn Felten wrote to Alan Ianson <=-

What despicably bad sysops?

Seriously? Did you miss all of it? Like wishing cancer and
even death upon another sysop and all the other insults after it
was pointed out that we suddenly had a duplicate net in our
nodelist?

You'll be OK, Karen. Go lay down for a bit.



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On Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:52:21 +0200
"Ward Dossche" <ward.dossche@2:292/854> wrote:

I'd say message exchange via JamNNTP is a different kind of
Board, focused on messaging.

And let's not focus too much on JamNNTP alone ... there's also the Telegram-platform that no-one worries about ...
I find it rather interesting how all these technologies bind together.

I was against Telegram integration to start with and I still can't say
I'm happy with it, but then again, I don't use the echoes that are
connected to it, so in the end it really doesn't matter.
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Lee Lofaso wrote to Alan Ianson <=-

Yes, it is. There is absolutely no doubt it is about Khontrol.

What Khontrol is it that you speak of?

Only the kind that fools believe.

Since you seem to be the only one that believes it, I would have to agree
with you regarding fools.


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What despicably bad sysops?

Seriously? Did you miss all of it? Like wishing cancer and even death upon another sysop and all the other insults after it was pointed out that we suddenly had a duplicate net in our nodelist?

No, I didn't miss that but that is not what we are talking about.

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This is the original sysop echo. FIDO_SYSOP came a little later.

Ah yes, I found FN_SYSOP in an areafix list from an uplink I had, dated
1995. I think I didn't have it linked (at least for long), I guess it had
too much traffic for me back then...

Back in those days I linked the echo but it was busy with nothing very constuctive. I didn't participate.

BTW there was also SYSOP ...

Yes, I still have the area here although I don't know when that one was created or by who or what the rules were. It's not very active.

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True, on a BBS you need to set permissions. If you are operating a
node there is no need.

Yes, if you have points. ;-)

Yes, I hope so anyway.. ;)

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Yes, it is. There is absolutely no doubt it is about Khontrol.

What Khontrol is it that you speak of?

Only the kind that fools believe.

Apparently.

I see a deflection coming on.

Not at all.

It was/is simply delection.

With others present. Which is what your gripe is, and of which
you have been unable to explain why.

I have explained it simply and completely

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Nigel Reed wrote to All <=-

And let's not focus too much on JamNNTP alone ... there's also the Telegram-platform that no-one worries about ...
I find it rather interesting how all these technologies bind together.

I was against Telegram integration to start with and I still
can't say I'm happy with it, but then again, I don't use the
echoes that are connected to it, so in the end it really doesn't
matter.

I kind of half-watch an echo with Telegram participants, and it's a
complete and utter clusterf**k. Effectively not readable due to format mangling, lack of quoting, and general stupidity.


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complete and utter clusterf**k. Effectively not readable
due to format mangling, lack of quoting, and general
stupidity.

You keep ignoring the fact that your first instance of a
complaint in LITRGP was based on a quoting issue due to
Aftershock, and not Tg. I agree with your latter point though;
since your participation, stupidity has emerged.

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August Abolins wrote to Dan Clough <=-

complete and utter clusterf**k. Effectively not readable
due to format mangling, lack of quoting, and general
stupidity.

You keep ignoring the fact that your first instance of a
complaint in LITRGP was based on a quoting issue due to
Aftershock, and not Tg. I agree with your latter point though;
since your participation, stupidity has emerged.

I don't know (or care) what Aftershock is, and either way, whether it's
that or TG, or both, the end result is: The echo is trashed and
basically un-useable by those using "traditional" Fidonet software /
message reading tools. Your claim that I'm stupid is just sour grapes
at being called out on it. Anyone can see that I'm telling the truth by simply trying to read messages in that group. It's that simple,
simpleton.



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I don't know (or care) what Aftershock is,...

Noted.

..the end result is: The echo is trashed..

All the posts from YOUR system don't even use the "traditional"
quoting with the intials. Why not try to conform to the
"tradition" that you speak of yourself.



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17 nov 2022 07:54, Dan Clough -> August Abolins

I don't know (or care) what Aftershock is,

AfterShock is a FTN point package for Android that integrates mailer (binkp), tosser and editor. Netmail is stored as *.msg, echomail in Squish format.

So it's sort of "traditional"...

Carlos

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August Abolins wrote to Dan Clough <=-

I don't know (or care) what Aftershock is,...

Noted.

..the end result is: The echo is trashed..

All the posts from YOUR system don't even use the "traditional"
quoting with the intials. Why not try to conform to the
"tradition" that you speak of yourself.

Baloney. I just looked at my message that you replied to here, and it's perfectly formatted with your initials before what you said, and my
initials before what I said.

I guess your mobile garbage is more broken then previously thought.



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Carlos Navarro wrote to Dan Clough <=-

17 nov 2022 07:54, Dan Clough -> August Abolins

I don't know (or care) what Aftershock is,

AfterShock is a FTN point package for Android that integrates
mailer (binkp), tosser and editor. Netmail is stored as *.msg,
echomail in Squish format.

So it's sort of "traditional"...

Perhaps it is, but the output it produces is garbage.



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17 nov 2022 10:30, Dan Clough -> Carlos Navarro

AfterShock is a FTN point package for Android that integrates
mailer (binkp), tosser and editor. Netmail is stored as *.msg,
echomail in Squish format.

So it's sort of "traditional"...

Perhaps it is, but the output it produces is garbage.

Please give me some example, to check what you mean. Echo and MSGID or datetime of message...

Carlos

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Baloney. I just looked at my message that you replied to here, and it's ..

You need to study ALL the messages originating from you system. RF's quoted messages do not bear any initials at all, for example.

I guess your mobile garbage is more broken then previously thought.

Your system seems to reveal its own issues.


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Carlos Navarro wrote to Dan Clough <=-

AfterShock is a FTN point package for Android that integrates
mailer (binkp), tosser and editor. Netmail is stored as *.msg,
echomail in Squish format.

So it's sort of "traditional"...

Perhaps it is, but the output it produces is garbage.

Please give me some example, to check what you mean. Echo and
MSGID or datetime of message...

The Fidonet "RPG Literature" echo is the only place that I see frequent
use of Aftershock/Telegram. Nearly any message in there is a good
example.



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august abolins wrote to Dan Clough <=-

Baloney. I just looked at my message that you replied to here, and it's

..

You need to study ALL the messages originating from you system.

No, I don't. The *ONLY* echo where I see this garbage is the RPG Lit
one, where most users seem to be using the broken software.

RF's quoted messages do not bear any initials at all, for
example.

If that's the case it's because they weren't there when they arrived
(several layers/indents deep).

I guess your mobile garbage is more broken then previously thought.

Your system seems to reveal its own issues.

The issue is not with my system. The *ONLY* place that I consistently
notice the formatting garbage is where you mobile users are posting.



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The issue is not with my system. ...

Yes it is. I told you to look at RF's messages. They originate
from your system.

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17 Nov 2022 18:35, you wrote to me:

Perhaps it is, but the output it produces is garbage.

Please give me some example, to check what you mean. Echo and
MSGID or datetime of message...

The Fidonet "RPG Literature" echo is the only place that I see
frequent use of Aftershock/Telegram. Nearly any message in there is a good example.

After a quick glance at LITRPG the only messages with bad quotes I find are some from John Dovey, replies to you or to Richard Falken.

Those have quotes like this:

====

This is quoted text...
====

instead of:

====

This is quoted text...

====

Is that what you meant?

I think I know why it is (sometimes) happenning. I'll report this to Aftershock's developer.

Carlos

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Carlos Navarro wrote to Dan Clough <=-

The Fidonet "RPG Literature" echo is the only place that I see
frequent use of Aftershock/Telegram. Nearly any message in there is a good example.

After a quick glance at LITRPG the only messages with bad quotes
I find are some from John Dovey, replies to you or to Richard
Falken.

Those have quotes like this:

====

This is quoted text...
====

instead of:

====

This is quoted text...

====

Is that what you meant?

Yes, that's one type. Also some wrapping / linelength issues, which
could be just poor configuration by the user.

Another probably-user problem is the complete lack of quoting of any
kind by some users. Maybe they're ignorant, or maybe the software
doesn't quote by default, I don't know.

I think I know why it is (sometimes) happenning. I'll report this
to Aftershock's developer.

Well that's excellent, thanks.


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Hi Carlos,

I think I know why it is (sometimes) happenning. I'll report this to Aftershock's developer.

I have report it to Anatoly.


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18 Nov 2022 19:57, you wrote to me:

I think I know why it is (sometimes) happenning. I'll report this
to Aftershock's developer.

I have report it to Anatoly.

Ok, anyway I'm reporting this in the AFTERSHOCK echo with more info about the issue.

Carlos

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18 Nov 2022 19:57, you wrote to me:

I think I know why it is (sometimes) happenning. I'll report this
to Aftershock's developer.

I have report it to Anatoly.

Ok, anyway I'm reporting this in the AFTERSHOCK echo with more info about the issue.

Carlos

Thanks Carlos.
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18 Nov 2022 11:34, you wrote to me:

Yes, that's one type. Also some wrapping / linelength issues, which
could be just poor configuration by the user.

If you find some example please give me some info about those message(s), so that I can check...

I think I know why it is (sometimes) happenning. I'll report this
to Aftershock's developer.

Well that's excellent, thanks.

And it will be fixed in version 1.6.12 - I've already checked the beta and works fine!

Carlos

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//Hello Dan,//

on *09.11.22* at *2:42:00* You wrote in area *FN_SYSOP*
to *Nigel Reed* about *"Re: Bad behaviour not wanted."*.

It's supposed to be sysop-only. Unfortunately many sysops don't
bother to properly configure their echos, and don't seem to care even
when that is pointed out. The web interface is another way it becomes public, and find-able in search engines. Again, because of poor configuration by sysops, either through ignorance, or willful disregard.

The web access is especially aggravating to me personally. A BBS should not be also a website, in my opinion. I know, many feel otherwise. To
me it "defeats the purpose" of running a BBS. If you want to run a website, then run a website, not a BBS. It takes away the "privacy" of
a traditional BBS.

agreed

Regards,
Daniel PATH
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//Hello Nigel,//

on *09.11.22* at *3:50:41* You wrote in area *FN_SYSOP*
to *Nick Andre* about *"Re: Bad behaviour not wanted."*.

I have no problem with a BBS running a web interface. Time moves on and technology evolves. It's one way to keep the BBS scene alive. The same access levels apply to the echoes available on my website as through the BBS so there's really no loss/gain there. I don't have ssh/telnet access from work so the web interface is a good way for me to connect to my BBS.

how many people read fidonet on the web? ;)

Regards,
Daniel PATH
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Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Daniel PATH to Nigel Reed on Wed Nov 09 2022 18:43:21

how many people read fidonet on the web? ;)

I don't know, why don't you go count them?
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On 09 Nov 22 18:43:21, Daniel Path said the following to Nigel Reed:

how many people read fidonet on the web? ;)

There is at least one or two that constantly look for access to the Z1C echo.

Nick

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Daniel PATH wrote to Nigel Reed <=-

I have no problem with a BBS running a web interface. Time moves on and technology evolves. It's one way to keep the BBS scene alive. The same access levels apply to the echoes available on my website as through the BBS so there's really no loss/gain there. I don't have ssh/telnet access from work so the web interface is a good way for me to connect to my BBS.

how many people read fidonet on the web? ;)

Back when Doc's Place went down for a while, a year or two ago, there were several displaced readers of the COOKING echo that were looking for a new
board to participate in it from. With one exception, the users I tried to assist were all users of the web interface on that board.


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On 03 Dec 22 10:01:18, Mike Powell said the following to Daniel Path:

Back when Doc's Place went down for a while, a year or two ago, there were several displaced readers of the COOKING echo that were looking for a new

Ahhh, Docs place.

Nice guy... except when he would spam every freaking echo once a year or so.

Nick

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03 Dec 22 03:14, Nigel Reed wrote to Daniel PATH:

Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Daniel PATH to Nigel Reed on Wed Nov 09 2022 18:43:21

how many people read fidonet on the web? ;)

I don't know, why don't you go count them?

Quite impossible to count, everyone may read at

http://endofthelinebbs.com/?page=001-forum.ssjs&group=7

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'Tommi

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03 Dec 22 09:13, Nick Andre wrote to Daniel Path:

how many people read fidonet on the web? ;)

There is at least one or two that constantly look for access to the Z1C echo.

Quite easy to get access. Nothing but stupid nodelist processing logs lately.

'Tommi

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Nice guy... except when he would spam every freaking echo once a year or so.

Uh?

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http://endofthelinebbs.com/?page=001-forum.ssjs&group=7

This is one is also pretty good, +S)earch'able

https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/msgs/

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This is one is also pretty good, +S)earch'able

https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/msgs/

Looks like a graveyard...

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On 03 Dec 2022 20:04 August Abolins wrote to Tommi Koivula :

http://endofthelinebbs.com/?page=001-forum.ssjs&group=7

This is one is also pretty good, +S)earch'able

https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/msgs/

This thing was calling my bbs every day and it was capturing the login screen. Now it is blocked to the mailer.

https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/?view=18601


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This thing was calling my bbs every day and it was capturing the login screen. Now it is blocked to the mailer.

https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/?view=18601

What other option would a system like that have? To check once
a week perhaps? Doesn't TelnetBBS Guide do the same thing?

I think the iptia bbs listing-system is a pretty good resource
for the average user.

--
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Hello Daniel,

I have no problem with a BBS running a web interface. Time moves on

and

technology evolves. It's one way to keep the BBS scene alive. The

same

access levels apply to the echoes available on my website as through

the

BBS so there's really no loss/gain there. I don't have ssh/telnet

access

from work so the web interface is a good way for me to connect to my

BBS.

how many people read fidonet on the web? ;)

As many who want to.

For Life,
Lee

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Hello Mike,

What you are suggesting is for sysops to have meetings in secret.
Where only they can play. With nobody else around.

Why is that a problem?

Not everybody agrees with Vladimir Putin. Or with Mike Powell.
But if you adore Putin, and love secrecy, please feel free to move
to Russia. Steven Seagal did. And he loves it.

For Life,
Lee

--
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Lee Lofaso wrote to Mike Powell <=-

What you are suggesting is for sysops to have meetings in secret.
Where only they can play. With nobody else around.

Why is that a problem?

Not everybody agrees with Vladimir Putin. Or with Mike Powell.
But if you adore Putin, and love secrecy, please feel free to move
to Russia. Steven Seagal did. And he loves it.

Nor apparently with Joe Biden, who also knows that there are some
government things that are not for public consumption. But maybe Lee
Lofaso is more like Donald Trump, who apparently does not understand such things and likes to make trouble. That would make sense.

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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Nigel Reed to All on Mon Nov 07 2022 08:49 pm

On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 05:17:13 +0100
"Bj_rn Felten" <bj_rn.felten@2:203/2> wrote:

I tolerate a lot of bullshit between certain parties in the
echo, but wishing cancer on someone is not acceptable.

I don't think that this guy understands how badly his actions
reflect on his parents. After all, they are the ones that obviously
failed to teach him elementary, human decency. And that in turn gives
his grandparents a bad rep too...

I think too many people have been at this for a long time on both sides
of the Atlantic. They all need to step down and let someone else take
over, who are actually going to foster good relationships between zones
and actually try to work together rather than wishing boils and warts
on each other.

This is bad for fidonet. The ZCs are representatives for us all.
They're supposed to be grown adults but do not behave that way.

I'm just thankful that new sysops don't need (or even can) see this
before joining up with fidonet, otherwise I'm sure many wouldn't want
to be party to such bickering. Maybe I'm just one of the "new" sysops
who isn't used to something that's been going on for 38 years.

Will be interesting to see if their children ever read these posts to
see what spiteful, hurtful, hateful people their parents were.
--
End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX
telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23

Nigel, ZCsare people too and they can be very reactive. Notice Ward isn't being reactive (atleast as far as I see so far). Bjorn (once a friend but doesn't seem to lke me any more) and Nick mixied it up.

It's not about zones really. It's about people who are reactive. Reactive to insults or percieved ones.

xxcarol
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Nick Andre to Nigel Reed on Mon Nov 07 2022 11:12 pm

On 07 Nov 22 20:49:47, Nigel Reed said the following to All:

This is bad for fidonet. The ZCs are representatives for us all.
They're supposed to be grown adults but do not behave that way.

For the few people that flame me in public about how bad I am or not doing my job, privately I get double the supportive/understanding feedback.

I actually have a good relation with the other ZC's but you won't see any of that, just singling me out for whatever I said that was somehow offensive to you. Someone who really know the context would understand. Someone who does not can and will hit the Next-key.

Nick

Yup. I got it.

xxcarol
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Nick Andre to Nigel Reed on Wed Nov 09 2022 08:26 am

On 08 Nov 22 21:50:41, Nigel Reed said the following to Nick Andre:

When I started my BBS, one of my aims was to be connected to anything an everything I could. This last month I've dropped a lot of networks. All Gerts (Familynet, STN, Linuxnet, Gatornet, etc), Starnet and Sportsnet s shop as did combatnet. This is something I do agree on. There's too many

I was the same way when I started in late '93... early '94. Nowadays there i too much supply, not enough demand. Its tempting to drop all of them here.

Nick

I did a bit ago. ow it's just Fidonet and my Battlenet (no messages, just BRE and FE games).

xxcarol
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Nick Andre to Alan Ianson on Wed Nov 09 2022 08:32 am

On 08 Nov 22 19:19:54, Alan Ianson said the following to Nick Andre:

Allen Prunty was the last elected moderator of this area. I don't know w has become of him but I don't think he had any probationary sysops hangi around.

I've never heard of the term "probationary Sysop" until recently.

Mixed feelings about Allen, was nice to me but he tried shoving down my thro about running some weird central Hub system and was always going to be aroun reliable, etc etc till one day he just pulled a Frank...

Nick

Some areas had them. LA was one of them. The NC required a sysop 'point' for 2 years. I was south of it in net202 and happily doing boss node for 5 or 6 at a time then helping them apply. Brenda Donvan was NC202 and happy to accecpt the new nodes applying with my point address as she knew they were functional with minimal hub assist needed.

The rest of us felt that Los Angeles NC was a P4 complaint waiting to happen. He also ran a 'for profit' cost share for mail. NET202 was strictly for cost with phone bill publically posted.

xxcarol
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Ward Dossche to Dan Clough on Wed Nov 09 2022 10:35 pm

Dan,

I think that a sysop-only echo is sysop-only for both read and write. I guess the one who could/should answer this is the ECHO MODERATOR.

There is no such thing as a sysop-only echo ... the moderator may name it so but it's meaningless.

Way way back in time when animals still could talk I decided to keep ENET.SY closed but quickly discovered that in Fidonet there will always be at least participant who'll send it to a person whom does not qualify per the rules.

I stopped worrying about that and accepted the reality that no echo is restricted. You have a secret to tell? Don't use echomail, send netmail ... crash.

\%/@rd

Maybe my friend, but I am happy for the long ago and still there feed from you.
I am respectful there when I post (which is rare).

Others should be as well.

xxcarol
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Nick Andre to Lee Lofaso on Wed Nov 09 2022 11:39 pm

On 10 Nov 22 05:22:34, Lee Lofaso said the following to Nick Andre:

The troll says what?

GET SOME HEARING AIDS.

The troll says what?

Nick

Agreed. Lee Lofaso is a total troll. Always has been. don't worry to much about it though, everyone knows it.

xxcarol
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Kurt Weiske to Lee Lofaso on Thu Nov 10 2022 06:56 am

Lee Lofaso wrote to Nick Andre <=-

Participants own this echo. Sysops and probationary sysops alike.
As well as moderators and moderator wannabes. And Canucks.

Or, those who self-identify as sysops?

My wife is sysop-adjacent, does she count?

... If it isn't broken, I can fix it.

LOL, I was down for 6 days due to a power outage. My 'co ajacent' husband didn't know to tell me. I came home and pressd the power button....

Grin, he doesn't count.

xxcarol
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Ward Dossche to August Abolins on Sat Nov 12 2022 02:52 pm

I'd say message exchange via JamNNTP is a different kind of
Board, focused on messaging.

And let's not focus too much on JamNNTP alone ... there's also the Telegram-platform that no-one worries about ...

I find it rather interesting how all these technologies bind together.

\%/@rd

Yes and I like Telegram. Stas did good there! It's basically a sort of point and OLR at once. Happy to see them in ASIAN_LINK here!

xxcarol
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Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Tommi Koivula to Ward Dossche on Sat Nov 12 2022 09:21 pm

On 12.11.2022 14:52, Ward Dossche wrote:

I'd say message exchange via JamNNTP is a different kind of
Board, focused on messaging.

And let's not focus too much on JamNNTP alone ... there's also the

Telegram-platform that no-one worries about ...

I find it rather interesting how all these technologies bind together.

One might ask where is the limit of native fidonet messages and gated messages...

Jam(Smapi)NNTPd is just an ftn editor over nntp protocol, it reads and write JAM/Squish/OPUS message base as any traditional ftn msg editor or bbs softwa

If I get it right, Telegram BBS of Stas is a gateway from fidonet to telegra and vice versa.

Telegram operates like an OLR. It has added ability to select message areas where the requests are sent over email to the 'Hub' (Stas last I heard).

The message areas are limited to those of us willing to accept them. This is because some mistakenly think it's functionaly is 'gated'. It's not and never was.

xxcarol
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Ward Dossche to Alan Ianson on Sun Nov 13 2022 06:10 pm

Alan,

It's not about Khontrol, it's simply a place for sysops to discuss what they want to discuss with other sysops.

It's a BBS thing ... I run a node and an editor, sysops can link in if they desire...

Not wanting to mention zones but BBS-ing is not core anymore to operations here. One time I had one and then I lost interest, it was just more of what already available elsewhere.

How's the snow?

\%/@rd

Here's a new one! WE went solar. I am told in my southerly location, it will have just enough heat to melt snow off the panels.

My system won't totally power the house year long but it will power the BBS machines and about 51% of our total use during the year.

xxcarol
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Dan Clough to Nigel Reed on Wed Nov 16 2022 09:37 pm

Nigel Reed wrote to All <=-

And let's not focus too much on JamNNTP alone ... there's also the Telegram-platform that no-one worries about ...
I find it rather interesting how all these technologies bind together.

I was against Telegram integration to start with and I still
can't say I'm happy with it, but then again, I don't use the
echoes that are connected to it, so in the end it really doesn't matter.

I kind of half-watch an echo with Telegram participants, and it's a
complete and utter clusterf**k. Effectively not readable due to format mangling, lack of quoting, and general stupidity.

... Sometimes you get the elevator, and sometimes you get the shaft.
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Really? I'm one of the listed ones and no ssuch thing has happened.

xxcarol
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Dan Clough to August Abolins on Thu Nov 17 2022 07:54 am

August Abolins wrote to Dan Clough <=-

complete and utter clusterf**k. Effectively not readable
due to format mangling, lack of quoting, and general
stupidity.

You keep ignoring the fact that your first instance of a
complaint in LITRGP was based on a quoting issue due to
Aftershock, and not Tg. I agree with your latter point though;
since your participation, stupidity has emerged.

I don't know (or care) what Aftershock is, and either way, whether it's
that or TG, or both, the end result is: The echo is trashed and
basically un-useable by those using "traditional" Fidonet software /
message reading tools. Your claim that I'm stupid is just sour grapes
at being called out on it. Anyone can see that I'm telling the truth by simply trying to read messages in that group. It's that simple,
simpleton.

... He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry & Curly
=== MultiMail/Linux v0.52

Dan, can you tell me why my ASIAN_LINK never had that? We were in the first few, and we welcome Telegram users. There have been no issues otherthan a few *early* ones that caused odd tear lines. They did not affectoperations and were quickly patched by Stas.

xxcarol
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Dan, can you tell me why my ASIAN_LINK never had that? We were in the first
few, and we welcome Telegram users. There have been no issues otherthan a few
*early* ones that caused odd tear lines. They did not affectoperations and
were quickly patched by Stas.

Ignore Dan. He's been irrational on the issue of LitRPG in general and latched onto the "but it's Telegram" argument. He continues to claim things as true which are false, in fact which are demonstrably the opposite to what he claims, on numerous occasions. Don't waste any time or energy on him, just delete and move on.

JD
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Carol Shenkenberger to Nick Andre on Sun Dec 11 2022 03:01 pm

Some areas had them. LA was one of them. The NC required a sysop 'point' for 2 years. I was south of it in net202 and happily doing boss node for 5 or 6 at a time then helping them apply. Brenda Donvan was NC202 and happy to accecpt the new nodes applying with my point address as she knew they were functional with minimal hub assist needed.

Wow, that's a new one to me!

The San Francisco bay area (net 161 and net 125) back in the day had its share of power grabs. The NEC not only had a cost recovery program in place, he tried to discourage people from going outside of the net with Planet Connect or other alternative means ("outing" people who opted out and complaining publicly that doing so would make it difficult to afford the cost recovery program.)

The final straw, if memory serves was that he wanted the net to pay for a fairly high-powered PC and a US Robotics modem, just for handling the mail.

In retrospect, there were probably over 100 nodes or more in the network, and LD was pricey back then.
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Carol Shenkenberger to Ward Dossche on Sun Dec 11 2022 04:14 pm

Here's a new one! WE went solar. I am told in my southerly location, it will have just enough heat to melt snow off the panels.

My system won't totally power the house year long but it will power the BBS machines and about 51% of our total use during the year.

I live in a house with 2 kids who leave lights on consistently. My BBS, running on an old laptop, is a rounding error in my electrical bill. It's nice to fly under the radar. :)
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John Dovey wrote to Carol Shenkenberger <=-

Dan, can you tell me why my ASIAN_LINK never had that? We were in the first
few, and we welcome Telegram users. There have been no issues otherthan a few
*early* ones that caused odd tear lines. They did not affectoperations and
were quickly patched by Stas.

Ignore Dan. He's been irrational on the issue of LitRPG in
general and latched onto the "but it's Telegram" argument. He
continues to claim things as true which are false, in fact which
are demonstrably the opposite to what he claims, on numerous
occasions. Don't waste any time or energy on him, just delete and
move on.

"Irrational"? Haha, that's rich. What I claim is that TG and AS users
trash the echos they post in, which is easily verified by just *LOOKING*
at the echo with a "normal" mail reader. Mangled quoting, lack of
context, lack of quoting, etc. It's all right there and easily seen, if
you pull your head out of your ass. That's the end of the argument, all
a person has to do is GO LOOK AT IT.

Your personal grudges at being called out on it don't make you right.



... Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.
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Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Dan Clough <=-

Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Dan Clough to August Abolins on Thu Nov 17 2022 07:54 am

complete and utter clusterf**k. Effectively not readable
due to format mangling, lack of quoting, and general
stupidity.

You keep ignoring the fact that your first instance of a
complaint in LITRGP was based on a quoting issue due to
Aftershock, and not Tg. I agree with your latter point though;
since your participation, stupidity has emerged.

I don't know (or care) what Aftershock is, and either way, whether it's
that or TG, or both, the end result is: The echo is trashed and
basically un-useable by those using "traditional" Fidonet software /
message reading tools. Your claim that I'm stupid is just sour grapes
at being called out on it. Anyone can see that I'm telling the truth by simply trying to read messages in that group. It's that simple,
simpleton.

Dan, can you tell me why my ASIAN_LINK never had that? We were
in the first few, and we welcome Telegram users. There have been
no issues otherthan a few *early* ones that caused odd tear
lines. They did not affectoperations and were quickly patched by
Stas.

Have you considered checking/reading echomail more often than once a
month? I've been all through this and don't feel like re-hashing it yet again. Read the complete thread.



... All the easy problems have been solved.
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BY: Kurt Weiske(1:218/700)

I live in a house with 2 kids who leave lights on consistently. My BBS, running on an old laptop, is a rounding error in my electrical bill.
It's nice to fly under the radar. :)

running the bbs on a gaming computer can be costly.


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Matt Munson wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

I live in a house with 2 kids who leave lights on consistently. My BBS, running on an old laptop, is a rounding error in my electrical bill.
It's nice to fly under the radar. :)

running the bbs on a gaming computer can be costly.

Who would be dumb enough to do that?



... Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Carol Shenkenberger to Nigel Reed on Sun Dec 11 2022 13:56:32

It's not about zones really. It's about people who are reactive. Reactive to insults or percieved ones.

Well, people need to chill the f*k down. It's a hobby. People do it for the enjoyment. It's a dying hobby, nodes are doing down all the time. This is not a good way to introduce new sysops into the world of BBSing.
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BY: Nigel Reed(1:124/5016)

Well, people need to chill the f*k down. It's a hobby. People do it for
the enjoyment. It's a dying hobby, nodes are doing down all the time.

Yes, we should try our best not to scare people off.


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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Carol Shenkenberger to Nigel Reed on Sun Dec 11 2022 13:56:32

It's not about zones really. It's about people who are reactive. Reactive
to insults or percieved ones.

Well, people need to chill the f*k down. It's a hobby. People do it for the enjoyment. It's a dying hobby, nodes are doing down all the time. This is not a good way to introduce new sysops into the world of BBSing.

Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, some people don't seem to be able to help themselves.

JD
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Matt Munson wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

running the bbs on a gaming computer can be costly.

Not sure why you'd choose to; old laptops make wonderful BBSes. You can tuek them in most anywhere, they have good power management, so you can throttle
it down when idle, and they have a built-in UPS.

On another benefit, when my power was out for an extended period of time, I took the BBS to my office, went onto the guest wireless, and was able to download packets from my uplink and crashmail them to my downlinks.


... Don't break the silence
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11 dic 2022 18:22, Dan Clough -> John Dovey:

"Irrational"? Haha, that's rich. What I claim is that TG and AS users trash the echos they post in, which is easily verified by just *LOOKING* at the echo with a "normal" mail reader. Mangled quoting, lack of context, lack of quoting, etc.

I am not going to comment about tg_bbs (for now), but just a clarification about AfterShock: the mangled quoting issue, that only happened in some cases (if there were useless LF chars in the replied-to message), was fixed in version 1.6.12.

If you find any other issue related to AfterShock, please let us know (with an example or some info) so that we can report it to the developer.

Carlos

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Hello Carol,

The troll says what?

GET SOME HEARING AIDS.

The troll says what?

Nick

Agreed. Lee Lofaso is a total troll. Always has been. don't worry to much
about it though, everyone knows it.

We are all trolls.
And that is the beauty of Fidonet.
However, one thing must be made clear.
There is only one supertroll.
And like the highlander of old told us,
so many centuries ago -

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

For Life,
Lee

--
Because not everyone likes licorice

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Hello Mike,

What you are suggesting is for sysops to have meetings in secret.
Where only they can play. With nobody else around.

Why is that a problem?

Not everybody agrees with Vladimir Putin. Or with Mike Powell.
But if you adore Putin, and love secrecy, please feel free to move
to Russia. Steven Seagal did. And he loves it.

Nor apparently with Joe Biden, who also knows that there are some government things that are not for public consumption.

I do not know about Joe Biden. But there is one thing I do know
about Steven Seagal - he and his film crew love pizza. Especially
pizza made in the French Quarter, on Bourbon Street. Bill Clinton
and Helmut Kohl preferred Caf‚ du Monde, where both made pigs of
themselves in public.

But maybe Lee Lofaso is more like Donald Trump, who apparently does not understand such things and likes to make trouble.

The entity known as Lee Lofaso is a figment of somebody's wild
and overactive imagination. The entity that calls itself Donald
Trump is a stable genius that only he himelf truly understands.

That would make sense.

You said it. Not me.

For Life,
Lee

--
Always in beta

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Hello Kurt Weiske!

** On Monday 12.12.22 - 06:01, Kurt Weiske wrote to Matt Munson:

...and they have a built-in UPS.

But it's getting increasingly expensive to replace oem
batteries from ancient laptops.

On another benefit, when my power was out for an extended period of time..

Wow. Dedication, or desperation? :D Resourcefulness for
sure!


--
../|ug

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Carlos Navarro wrote to Dan Clough <=-

11 dic 2022 18:22, Dan Clough -> John Dovey:

"Irrational"? Haha, that's rich. What I claim is that TG and AS users trash the echos they post in, which is easily verified by just *LOOKING* at the echo with a "normal" mail reader. Mangled quoting, lack of context, lack of quoting, etc.

I am not going to comment about tg_bbs (for now), but just a
clarification about AfterShock: the mangled quoting issue, that
only happened in some cases (if there were useless LF chars in
the replied-to message), was fixed in version 1.6.12.

Well it sure is good that you can at least *acknowledge* that there was
an issue, and I thank you for looking into that and getting it
corrected. I have to wonder if some of the other folks in this thread
are seeing your messages, since they seem to think I'm "irrational"
about pointing it out; or, even more strangely, can't see it for
themselves.

Yeah, I'm talking about you, John Dovey.

If you find any other issue related to AfterShock, please let us
know (with an example or some info) so that we can report it to
the developer.

I will do that.


... All the easy problems have been solved.
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Lee Lofaso wrote to Mike Powell <=-

But maybe Lee Lofaso is more like Donald Trump, who apparently does not understand such things and likes to make trouble.

The entity known as Lee Lofaso is a figment of somebody's wild
and overactive imagination.

Yes, we all know that, Beeeorn.


... Your proctologist called. He found your head.
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Kurt Weiske to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Dec 11 2022 03:27 pm

I live in a house with 2 kids who leave lights on consistently. My BBS, running on an old laptop, is a rounding error in my electrical bill. It's nice to fly under the radar. :)

Not using LED bulbs? :-)
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Rob Swindell wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

I live in a house with 2 kids who leave lights on consistently. My BBS, running on an old laptop, is a rounding error in my electrical bill. It's nice to fly under the radar. :)

Not using LED bulbs? :-)

Now, most of them are - it's getting difficult to find incandescent bulbs
any more.

I replaced some fluorescent bulbs recently and found LED tubes - they're the same form factor, but inside are a line of LEDs. They lightg up quickly and don't flicker like fluorescents do.


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August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

...and they have a built-in UPS.

But it's getting increasingly expensive to replace oem
batteries from ancient laptops.

Not IBM Thinkpads. The trick is to stick with corporate brand lines. A Dell Optiplex or a Thinkpad should have a good market - I found a new battery for
a 10 year-old Thinkpad recently.

On another benefit, when my power was out for an extended period of time..

Wow. Dedication, or desperation? :D Resourcefulness for
sure!

A little of both - I had to go into work anyways, and I'm a regional coordinator for Fidonet, so I had a region worth of sysops waiting on mail packets.


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I replaced some fluorescent bulbs recently and found LED tubes - they're the same form factor, but inside are a line of LEDs. They lightg up quickly and don't flicker like fluorescents do.

When I took over the shop, the previous installation had a
series of 8ft-long and 4ft-long fluorescent T12's. When some of
the transformers started to fail after 2 or years of my
occupation, I had all the T12's changed to support T8's. That
was 7 years ago. Now, some of those "new" instant-start
transformers are failing. I am at the point where direct-wire
LED tubes would be a more welcoming solution. But the 8ft-ers
cost about $32 a piece. I would need about 24.

I am not sure if I've seen any other retail space using LED
lighting exclusively.

I've gone through at least a handful of T12 fluorescents, in my
first couple of years of operation, and then even MORE T8's
later on. At about $20 a piece, they could add up.

But the LED variety cost even more.

Which kind did you settle with? Direct-wire types, or the ones
that work with the existing ballast?

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At about $20 a piece, they could add up.

But the LED variety cost even more.

I bought mine (60 cm T8) from AliExpress for about 5 EUR each (free shipping). They were connected so that all I had to do was remove the starter. Removing the ballast is optional.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32797875292.html



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Hello Bj”rn Felten!

** On Thursday 15.12.22 - 01:15, Bj”rn Felten wrote to August Abolins:

I bought mine (60 cm T8) from AliExpress for about 5 EUR each (free shipping). They were connected so that all I had to do was remove the starter. Removing the ballast is optional.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32797875292.html

I thought ballast=starter. So, it looks like you got "direct-
wire" types. That's the way to go.

I'm surprised that those tubes have "holes" for cooling. I
didn't think they would heat up at all.

Mine need to be brighter. I have a 12-14 ft high ceiling.
And I need 4ft and 8ft types.

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Well it sure is good that you can at least *acknowledge* that there was
an issue, and I thank you for looking into that and getting it
corrected.

At least Carlos did something constructive. All you did was
chirp like Chicken Little and wanted all smartphone usage to
stop.

I have to wonder if some of the other folks in this thread
are seeing your messages, since they seem to think I'm "irrational"
about pointing it out; or, even more strangely, can't see it for themselves.

Your rant did come across as irrational and unsupported. ;)

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August Abolins wrote to Dan Clough <=-

Well it sure is good that you can at least *acknowledge* that there was
an issue, and I thank you for looking into that and getting it
corrected.

At least Carlos did something constructive. All you did was
chirp like Chicken Little and wanted all smartphone usage to
stop.

My chirping was what brought the issue to light, so it could be
corrected. I'd call that constructive, too, even if you didn't
personally like it. That's *your* problem.

I have to wonder if some of the other folks in this thread
are seeing your messages, since they seem to think I'm "irrational"
about pointing it out; or, even more strangely, can't see it for themselves.

Your rant did come across as irrational and unsupported. ;)

So, you're saying that a problem which was pointed out, and subsequently corrected, was "irrational and unsupported". Right. That makes a lot
of sense. Sure.

The only reason any "ranting" was even required was that you (and
others) would not acknowledge an OBVIOUS flaw, even though it was right
in front of you the whole time. NONE of that is just my opinion, it was
all simple facts, easily verified by anyone, and right there in public
for all to see. You all just didn't want to admit there was an issue
for reasons which escape me. Let me know if you have a better
explanation, and if not..... STFU.



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I have to wonder if some of the other folks in this thread
are seeing your messages, since they seem to think I'm "irrational" AA>DC> about pointing it out; or, even more strangely, can't see it for
themselves.

Your rant did come across as irrational and unsupported. ;)

Thank you <insert appropriate superior being who is expected to solve everything by praying to him/her/it (*) but in reality it's just nature and physics>, I'm not alone in the universe.....

\%/@rd

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My chirping was what brought the issue to light, so it could be
corrected. I'd call that constructive, too, even if you didn't
personally like it. That's *your* problem.

No.. it was Carlos that noticed that LFs in some messages
potentially exacerbated a reply issue. The phone apps
themselves were not the problem. You didn't provided anything
noteworthy except your sky-is-flling-with-smartphone-apps rant.

Your rant did come across as irrational and unsupported. ;)

So, you're saying that a problem which was pointed out, and subsequently corrected, was "irrational and unsupported". Right. That makes a lot
of sense. Sure.

Your rant was the irrational part, not the problem that Carlos
discovered. ;) All you did was proclaim that Tg is broken,
and then you shifted to Aftershock is broken, and you even
targeted the users of those interfaces to cease and desist.

..You all just didn't want to admit there was an issue for
reasons which escape me. Let me know if you have a better
explanation, and if not..... STFU.

Not true. We asked for verifiable info. You provided none.
Most FTN messages looked good most of the time.

Meanwhile the user with the initials RF on your system still
continues to use a non-initial quote setting on YOUR system and
that counters to one of your complaints that some messages in
LITRPG didn't have "proper quoting". And THAT problem is
originating at your system. ;)

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Well it sure is good that you can at least *acknowledge* that there was an issue, and I thank you for looking into that and getting it
corrected. I have to wonder if some of the other folks in this thread are seeing your messages, since they seem to think I'm "irrational"
about pointing it out; or, even more strangely, can't see it for themselves.

Yeah, I'm talking about you, John Dovey.

When we were exploring the reasons and extent of the problem, you insisted on more than one occasion that it was "proof" of the TG gateway being at fault, so yes. I stand by my irrational comment.

GFY

JD
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John Dovey wrote to Dan Clough <=-

Well it sure is good that you can at least *acknowledge* that there was
an issue, and I thank you for looking into that and getting it
corrected. I have to wonder if some of the other folks in this thread
are seeing your messages, since they seem to think I'm "irrational"
about pointing it out; or, even more strangely, can't see it for themselves.

Yeah, I'm talking about you, John Dovey.

When we were exploring the reasons and extent of the problem,

So, you *ALSO* admit that there was a problem. Yes, the problem that
*I* pointed out. Thanks.

you insisted on more than one occasion that it was "proof" of the
TG gateway being at fault, so yes.

Wrong. That's a lie. I never ONCE said anything about any "gateway", I claimed that it was the TG/AS applications that were the source of the problem. Turns out I was right. Did you miss where Carlos said that
somebody had corrected the "extra LF" issue in a new release of one of
those apps? Selective reading perhaps? Can't admit you were wrong?

I stand by my irrational comment.

Which one? Nearly all of your comments are irrational.

GFY

Oh, that's nice. I won't stoop to your level.

Game. Set. Match.



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15 Dec 2022 08:22, you wrote to Dan Clough:

Meanwhile the user with the initials RF on your system still
continues to use a non-initial quote setting on YOUR system and
that counters to one of your complaints that some messages in
LITRPG didn't have "proper quoting". And THAT problem is
originating at your system. ;)

That's not a problem. Quoting without initials is fine too.

Carlos

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13 Dec 2022 20:56, you wrote to me:

Well it sure is good that you can at least *acknowledge* that there
was an issue, and I thank you for looking into that and getting it
corrected.

You're welcome. Just trying to help improve it now that its developer is working on it again after some years.

I have to wonder if some of the other folks in this
thread are seeing your messages, since they seem to think I'm
"irrational" about pointing it out; or, even more strangely, can't see
it for themselves.

I wouldn't say you're "irrational". But I think you're wrong when you mix AfterShock and tg_BBS as if they were the same thing, just because both are mostly used on mobile devices.

AfterShock is a "normal" mail reader, a FTN package just like e.g. FrontDoor/APX or WinPoint, but for Android.

The Telegram BBS/gateway is something completely different thing that, I agree, has some issues. Some of them can be fixed (I've reported one recently), but others... not sure.

If you find any other issue related to AfterShock, please let us
know (with an example or some info) so that we can report it to
the developer.

I will do that.

Great.

BTW I've noticed that your editor has issues with quoting: it doesn't append the ">" to previously quoted text.
See your message, the one I'm replying to:

=== Cut ===

"Irrational"? Haha, that's rich. What I claim is that TG and AS

=== /Cut ===

It should have been:

=== Cut ===

"Irrational"? Haha, that's rich. What I claim is that TG and AS

=== /Cut ===

Carlos

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Carlos Navarro wrote to Dan Clough <=-

13 Dec 2022 20:56, you wrote to me:

Well it sure is good that you can at least *acknowledge* that there
was an issue, and I thank you for looking into that and getting it
corrected.

You're welcome. Just trying to help improve it now that its
developer is working on it again after some years.

Glad to hear.

I have to wonder if some of the other folks in this
thread are seeing your messages, since they seem to think I'm
"irrational" about pointing it out; or, even more strangely, can't see
it for themselves.

I wouldn't say you're "irrational". But I think you're wrong when
you mix AfterShock and tg_BBS as if they were the same thing,
just because both are mostly used on mobile devices.

Perhaps I did lump them both into the same category. I'll be sure to
watch for that in future.

AfterShock is a "normal" mail reader, a FTN package just like
e.g. FrontDoor/APX or WinPoint, but for Android.

Ack.

The Telegram BBS/gateway is something completely different thing
that, I agree, has some issues. Some of them can be fixed (I've
reported one recently), but others... not sure.

Okay.

BTW I've noticed that your editor has issues with quoting: it
doesn't append the ">" to previously quoted text. See your
message, the one I'm replying to:

=== Cut ===

"Irrational"? Haha, that's rich. What I claim is that TG and AS

=== /Cut ===

It should have been:

=== Cut ===

"Irrational"? Haha, that's rich. What I claim is that TG and AS

=== /Cut ===

Yes, I see that. It (MultiMail) does do the first quote, but indeed
does not "increment" the quoting on later replies. I will report that
on the git project for this software, and hopefully the author will take
note and correct.

Thanks for your reply.


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John,

Yeah, I'm talking about you, John Dovey.

When we were exploring the reasons and extent of the problem, you
insisted on more than one occasion that it was "proof" of the TG gateway being at fault, so yes. I stand by my irrational comment.

Dan just inspired me to formulate the 22nd law:

"When you have nothing to say, then agreeing with the last speaker,
gives you nevertheless the last word"

\%/@rd

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Carlos Navarro wrote to Dan Clough <=-

=== Cut ===

"Irrational"? Haha, that's rich. What I claim is that TG and AS

=== /Cut ===

It should have been:

=== Cut ===

"Irrational"? Haha, that's rich. What I claim is that TG and AS

=== /Cut ===

Since "DC" is "Dan Clough," aren't they both correct?

I am using the latest MultiMail release (or close to it!) and that is how
it applied the quotes to your message... "CN>" is you, and "DC>" is Dan.

Mike

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15 Dec 2022 15:27, you wrote to me:

Since "DC" is "Dan Clough," aren't they both correct?

I am using the latest MultiMail release (or close to it!) and that is
how it applied the quotes to your message... "CN>" is you, and "DC>"
is Dan.

Check Dan's message to me dated 13 Dec 2022 20:56 (MSGID: 4614.fido_fn_sysop@1:123/115 27fe86f8)

It should be "DC>>", not "DC>".

Carlos

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15 Dec 2022 15:46, you wrote to me:

Yes, I see that. It (MultiMail) does do the first quote, but indeed
does not "increment" the quoting on later replies. I will report that
on the git project for this software, and hopefully the author will
take note and correct.

Great. I just saw you created an issue on the repo. ;-)

Carlos

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Carlos Navarro wrote to Dan Clough <=-

Yes, I see that. It (MultiMail) does do the first quote, but indeed
does not "increment" the quoting on later replies. I will report that
on the git project for this software, and hopefully the author will
take note and correct.

Great. I just saw you created an issue on the repo. ;-)

Yes; hopefully the author is responsive.



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BY: Kurt Weiske(1:218/700)

Not sure why you'd choose to; old laptops make wonderful BBSes. You can tuek
them in most anywhere, they have good power management, so you can
throttle
it down when idle, and they have a built-in UPS.

I would love to run it under a raspberry pi. I turn off my monitor and turn off other appliances to neutralize the energy costs in my room.


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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: John Dovey to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Dec 11 2022 06:24 pm

Dan, can you tell me why my ASIAN_LINK never had that? We were in the first
few, and we welcome Telegram users. There have been no issues othertha few
*early* ones that caused odd tear lines. They did not affectoperations and
were quickly patched by Stas.

Ignore Dan. He's been irrational on the issue of LitRPG in general and latch onto the "but it's Telegram" argument. He continues to claim things as true which are false, in fact which are demonstrably the opposite to what he clai on numerous occasions. Don't waste any time or energy on him, just delete an move on.

JD

Might do just that.

As an early adopter who was delighted with the idea, we were one of the first 10 I think. Maybe first 8?

NO posts were really problematic, just some odd tear lines fast fixed within about a week. Utterly happy with them.

People who think it's 'gating' are mistaken. It's sort of a cross between tranx and an OLR. Point system may also be applicable.

xxcarol
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Kurt Weiske to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Dec 11 2022 03:24 pm

Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Carol Shenkenberger to Nick Andre on Sun Dec 11 2022 03:01 pm

Some areas had them. LA was one of them. The NC required a sysop 'point' for 2 years. I was south of it in net202 and happily doing boss node for or 6 at a time then helping them apply. Brenda Donvan was NC202 and happ to accecpt the new nodes applying with my point address as she knew they were functional with minimal hub assist needed.

Wow, that's a new one to me!

The San Francisco bay area (net 161 and net 125) back in the day had its sha of power grabs. The NEC not only had a cost recovery program in place, he tr to discourage people from going outside of the net with Planet Connect or ot alternative means ("outing" people who opted out and complaining publicly th doing so would make it difficult to afford the cost recovery program.)

The final straw, if memory serves was that he wanted the net to pay for a fairly high-powered PC and a US Robotics modem, just for handling the mail.

In retrospect, there were probably over 100 nodes or more in the network, an LD was pricey back then.

I remember. NET202 was VERY different under Brenda Donovan. The RC or maybe it was the REC, wanted us to pull instate at a higher rate. Brenda said no and pulled fom Nevada. Polled the NC for just netmail.

We had a CRP and a *voluntary* donation for equipment costs. Our hoghest bill was 7$ per member as I recall. They got as low as 2.50 or so per quarter. Phone bill was posted publically for all to see.

I moved to Norfolk area in 1995. We didn't have a CRP. We drew from John Souvester then from the net north of us then I setup a feed with John S. and was a local dial to the net north so fed them. Became NC then RC then moved to Japan and eventually Z6C. Leaving Japan, (moved all remaining nodes to Z3 after a Z6 vote) and back to NC in Norfolk area.

xxcarol
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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Kurt Weiske to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Dec 11 2022 03:27 pm

Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Carol Shenkenberger to Ward Dossche on Sun Dec 11 2022 04:14 pm

Here's a new one! WE went solar. I am told in my southerly location, it will have just enough heat to melt snow off the panels.

My system won't totally power the house year long but it will power the machines and about 51% of our total use during the year.

I live in a house with 2 kids who leave lights on consistently. My BBS, runn on an old laptop, is a rounding error in my electrical bill. It's nice to fl under the radar. :)

Well, Gas heat (HVAC so electrical blower), my bills are/were about 75$ a month in winter. Right now on sunny days or middling cloudy, I generate much more than I consume. It was only turned on on 29Nov and this season is pretty cloudy here. Cant really tell but suspect bill will be 25$ or so? (partial month and only 3 clear days).

xxcarol
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Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

Well, Gas heat (HVAC so electrical blower), my bills are/were about 75$
a month in winter. Right now on sunny days or middling cloudy, I
generate much more than I consume. It was only turned on on 29Nov and this season is pretty cloudy here. Cant really tell but suspect bill
will be 25$ or so? (partial month and only 3 clear days).

I was just telling the story of setting up my BBS back in 1991. I had a 286 with 2 32MB drives. I was worried about how it would affect my utility bill.

I lived in a studio apartment in a 1920s art deco-esque building in San Francisco. We had steam heat for free run off of a central boiler with a radiator that heated the space up wonderfully.

My first bill went up from $16/month to $20/month.

Those were the days...


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Hello Dan,

But maybe Lee Lofaso is more like Donald Trump, who apparently does not
understand such things and likes to make trouble.

The entity known as Lee Lofaso is a figment of somebody's wild
and overactive imagination.

Yes, we all know that, Beeeorn.

Speak for yourself -

https://www.41051.com/xmaslyrics/grinch.html


Merry Fucking Christmas,
Lee

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Hello Alan!

08 Nov 22 19:19, you wrote to Nick Andre:

Allen Prunty was the last elected moderator of this area. I don't know what has become of him but I don't think he had any probationary
sysops hanging around.

He is more focused on fighting his cancer battle and his diabetes. I did also offer to pay one of his medications.

Matt


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Hello Nick!

09 Nov 22 08:26, you wrote to Nigel Reed:

When I started my BBS, one of my aims was to be connected to
anything and everything I could. This last month I've dropped a
lot of networks. All of Gerts (Familynet, STN, Linuxnet, Gatornet,
etc), Starnet and Sportsnet shut shop as did combatnet. This is
something I do agree on. There's too many

I was the same way when I started in late '93... early '94. Nowadays
there is too much supply, not enough demand. Its tempting to drop all
of them here.

22 years ago, we had the posters to justify all those othernets. I had like 6-8 from the USA/CAN and 2-3 from the UK back in those glory days.

Matt


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On 09 Dec 22 22:45:54, Matt Munson said the following to Nick Andre:

22 years ago, we had the posters to justify all those othernets. I had like 6-8 from the USA/CAN and 2-3 from the UK back in those glory days.

I was one of the first boards in my area at the time to have Internet email access via nightly long distance mailer calls to a UUCP system in Toronto. Then there was Usenet groups via another system in Montreal. And having to chip in for the Planet Connect fido-hub in Net 252.

My favourite was watching all the Lord and Tradewars addicts slam my board exactly at midnight every night to play their turns. Hilarious...

Nick

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Nick Andre wrote to Matt Munson <=-

My favourite was watching all the Lord and Tradewars addicts slam my
board exactly at midnight every night to play their turns. Hilarious...

Those were the days. :)




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Hello Dale,

The time he was challenged to prove he understood what a BBS was by
logging in to a board, he didn't... he just posted a message from
another stupid NNTP site in Finland. He's never called any other board.
Ever.

I have a record of him posting messages from 3:800/432 -- probability in 2003.

You should check them. Then you will know the truth.

I have posted messages from many lands. But from Finland? That came
later, given the date you mentioned.

It all started in Texas. I was using Frank Vest's system at the time,
having been invited to his board. We were all enjoying a general chat
echo, and then I noticed Frank was posting messages in the Fidonews
echo. It was fun reading, but I had no write access from his board.

I have no idea as to why Frank had it listed as a "read only" echo.
Especially since I had read and write access from other boards.
Including boards in the USA. I simply thought it was an oversight
on his part.

So I asked Frank to grant me write access to the Fidonews echo.
He refused, but not for long as I had other places to do so from.

That is when I started posting messages in the Fidonews echo from
Steve Asher's sytem - in Australia.

It did not take long for Frank Vest to notice. So he decided to
retire as editor of the Fidonews, naming Bj”rn Felten as his choice
to replace him. And then he walked away, shutting down his board.

This act deeply upset Ross Cassell, who never fully recovered.
Has always blamed me. Ever since. For causing Frank Vest to name
Bj”rn Felten as editor of the Fidonews rather than himself.

Not that I had anything to do with it. I mean, Frank Vest was
editor of the Fidonews and free to name his own replacement as
editor. So please. Don't blame me.

But Ross Cassell was not done. He still had dreams of taking over
the echo he has always dreamed would make him "King of Fido".

That is when I set my true plan into action.

I never knew until then I had so much influence over Fidonet sysops.

Go ahead. Check your logs. And then you will know the truth.
The real truth. As to why Ross Cassell left Fidonet.

Well, not entirely my fault. There was one other factor.

The other factor being Wayne Chirnside. He was the one factor
that could (and did) send Ross Cassell totally off the edge.

That's right. One lunatic is bad enough. But two of them, teaming
up together, was just too much for any sysop to handle.

You see, the entity known as Wayne Chirnsde is/was not really a he,
but rather a she. A clinical psychologist, by profession. And she had
a study she was conducting, with one special project - megalomania.

When the basis of her study found out we were both posting messages
from the same board in the land of Oz, it just could not go unanswered.
So Ross sent Steve Asher a bunch of netmails, loaded with obscenities,
showing the Aussie from Adelaide how upset he was.

So Steve Asher did what any other sysop would do. He dropped the
Fidonews echo from his board. And messages continued being posted
in the Fidonews echo. With no restrictions on anybody who wanted
to do so.

Ross Cassell was still upset, and continued to whine. Finding the
same two individuals who were posting from a board in the land of Oz
posting from a different board.

We all know how well that went.

Bj”rn Felten did what any other sysop would do. He reminded the whiner
that a sysop is lord and master of his own board.

Ross Cassell made his exit from Fidonet shortly afterwards.

For Life,
Lee

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On 02-11-23 22:34, Lee Lofaso <=-
spoke to Dale Shipp about Truly Bad Behavior <=-

The time he was challenged to prove he understood what a BBS was by
logging in to a board, he didn't... he just posted a message from
another stupid NNTP site in Finland. He's never called any other board.
Ever.

I have a record of him posting messages from 3:800/432 -- probability in 2003.

This post was made quite a while ago.

You should check them. Then you will know the truth.

I doubt that they would convince anyone, even if I could find them.

Dale Shipp
fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
(1:261/1466)


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Lee Lofaso wrote to Dale Shipp <=-

That's right. One lunatic is bad enough. But two of them, teaming
up together, was just too much for any sysop to handle.

So you are chastising someone for their behavior but then admitting to bad,
and possibly intentional, behavior of your own? Nice.

Bj”rn Felten did what any other sysop would do. He reminded the whiner that a sysop is lord and master of his own board.

I am sure you did.



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Hello Mike,

That's right. One lunatic is bad enough. But two of them, teaming
up together, was just too much for any sysop to handle.

So you are chastising someone for their behavior but then admitting to bad,
and possibly intentional, behavior of your own? Nice.

The "King of Fido" has only himself to blame. Nobody else. Even
if they are fictional characters of somebody else's making.

Bj”rn Felten did what any other sysop would do. He reminded the LL>whiner

that a sysop is lord and master of his own board.

I am sure you did.

The sum of the ASCII values of my name prove exactly who and what
I am (as recorded in Revelation 13:18) -

LEE LOFASO = 666

See what happens when you call 666 ...

For those who are not aware, the devil's hotline is just one
call away, at 666-666-6666. Available day or night ...

For Life,
Lee

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Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Dan Clough to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Dec 11 2022 06:28 pm

Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Dan Clough <=-

Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
By: Dan Clough to August Abolins on Thu Nov 17 2022 07:54 am

complete and utter clusterf**k. Effectively not readable
due to format mangling, lack of quoting, and general
stupidity.

You keep ignoring the fact that your first instance of a
complaint in LITRGP was based on a quoting issue due to
Aftershock, and not Tg. I agree with your latter point though;
since your participation, stupidity has emerged.

I don't know (or care) what Aftershock is, and either way, whether it's that or TG, or both, the end result is: The echo is trashed and basically un-useable by those using "traditional" Fidonet software / message reading tools. Your claim that I'm stupid is just sour grapes
at being called out on it. Anyone can see that I'm telling the truth by simply trying to read messages in that group. It's that simple, simpleton.

Dan, can you tell me why my ASIAN_LINK never had that? We were
in the first few, and we welcome Telegram users. There have been
no issues otherthan a few *early* ones that caused odd tear
lines. They did not affectoperations and were quickly patched by
Stas.

Have you considered checking/reading echomail more often than once a
month? I've been all through this and don't feel like re-hashing it yet again. Read the complete thread.

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Why should I Dan? If you can't explain it, then it never happened.

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Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Dan Clough <=-

complete and utter clusterf**k. Effectively not readable
due to format mangling, lack of quoting, and general
stupidity.

You keep ignoring the fact that your first instance of a
complaint in LITRGP was based on a quoting issue due to
Aftershock, and not Tg. I agree with your latter point though;
since your participation, stupidity has emerged.

I don't know (or care) what Aftershock is, and either way, whether it's that or TG, or both, the end result is: The echo is trashed and basically un-useable by those using "traditional" Fidonet software / message reading tools. Your claim that I'm stupid is just sour grapes
at being called out on it. Anyone can see that I'm telling the truth by simply trying to read messages in that group. It's that simple, simpleton.

Dan, can you tell me why my ASIAN_LINK never had that? We were
in the first few, and we welcome Telegram users. There have been
no issues otherthan a few *early* ones that caused odd tear
lines. They did not affectoperations and were quickly patched by
Stas.

Have you considered checking/reading echomail more often than once a
month? I've been all through this and don't feel like re-hashing it yet again. Read the complete thread.

Why should I Dan?

Well, I guess so you can (maybe) understand what is being discussed
here. Duh.

If you can't explain it, then it never happened.

That's just it... I *HAVE* explained it, several times, in the
discussion thread. As I already said, if you'd read it you may see
that.

Well done on going *TWO* months this time before bothering to "catch up"
with reading echomail.



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