Hello, All.

Seems it has gotten very Quiet here.

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Hey Charles!

Seems it has gotten very Quiet here.

What? You'll have to speak up if you want to be heard over all the noise here.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Hello, Maurice Kinal.
On 9/14/20 8:48 PM you wrote:

What? You'll have to speak up if you want to be heard over all
the noise here.

I do apologize. I was afraid of waking the neighbors by being too loud.

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Re: Hello?
By: Charles Pierson to All on Mon Sep 14 2020 08:39 pm

Seems it has gotten very Quiet here.

I got it here at valhalla. Let me know if you get this. This echo has been dead for awhile. Thanks

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Hello, C.G. Learn.
On 9/15/20 4:05 PM you wrote:

Re: Hello?
By: Charles Pierson to All on Mon Sep 14 2020 08:39 pm

Seems it has gotten very Quiet here.

I got it here at valhalla. Let me know if you get this. This echo
has been dead for awhile. Thanks

I got it here. The echo is on, just quiet.

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Hallo Chuck!

I was afraid of waking the neighbors by being too loud.

No worries. I think you'll have to be much louder to wake the dead.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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I was afraid of waking the neighbors by being too loud.

No worries. I think you'll have to be much louder to wake the dead.

Say what? ;)

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On 15 Sep 2020, Maurice Kinal said the following...

I was afraid of waking the neighbors by being too loud.

No worries. I think you'll have to be much louder to wake the dead.

Shhhh. I was sleeping... ;)


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Hallo Alan!

Say what? ;)

I said, I THINK YOU'LL HAVE TO BE MUCH LOUDER TO WAKE THE DEAD.

Is this better?

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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Hallo Dan!

Shhhh. I was sleeping... ;)

No sleeping allowed during the seance. Speaking of which, you wouldn't happen to be packing an Ouija board?

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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Hello, Dan Richter.
On 9/15/20 5:34 PM you wrote:

On 15 Sep 2020, Maurice Kinal said the following...

I was afraid of waking the neighbors by being too loud. No

worries. I think you'll have to be much louder to wake the dead.

Shhhh. I was sleeping... ;)

I TOLD them!

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Re: Hello?
By: C.G. Learn to Charles Pierson on Tue Sep 15 2020 16:05:57

Seems it has gotten very Quiet here.

I got it here at valhalla. Let me know if you get this. This echo
has been dead for awhile. Thanks

Sender C.G. Learn
To Charles Pierson
Subject Hello?
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On 16 Sep 2020, Maurice Kinal said the following...

Shhhh. I was sleeping... ;)

No sleeping allowed during the seance. Speaking of which, you wouldn't happen to be packing an Ouija board?

I'm using this one. Right now I'm talking to Ludwig van Beethoven, but he's
not hearing a word I'm saying... ;)


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Hallo Dan!

Right now I'm talking to Ludwig van Beethoven, but he's not
hearing a word I'm saying...

Just another of those uppity decomposing composers taking the fifth and calling it fate.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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Seems it has gotten very Quiet here.

There are other things in life besides BBSing.

Daryl

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Hello, Daryl Stout.
On 9/15/20 1:14 AM you wrote:

Seems it has gotten very Quiet here.

There are other things in life besides BBSing.

I do understand that certainly.

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Re: Hello?
By: Charles Pierson to C.G. Learn on Tue Sep 15 2020 03:44 pm

I got it here. The echo is on, just quiet.

Thanks, for the reply

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Hello, C.G. Learn.
On 9/16/20 4:26 PM you wrote:

Re: Hello?
By: Charles Pierson to C.G. Learn on Tue Sep 15 2020 03:44 pm

I got it here. The echo is on, just quiet.

Thanks, for the reply

Any time.

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Maurice Kinal wrote to Dan Richter <=-

Hallo Dan!

Right now I'm talking to Ludwig van Beethoven, but he's not
hearing a word I'm saying...

Just another of those uppity decomposing composers taking the fifth and calling it fate.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

Some people think that Beethoven wasn't actually deaf, he was just hard of hearing. Theodore Albrecht, a musicologist at Kent think that while he was hard of hearing, he wasn't stone deaf.

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C.G.,

I got it here at valhalla. Let me know if you get this. This echo has
been dead for awhile. Thanks

Good to hear from you...several had wondered about you and your BBS.

Daryl

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Re: Re: Hello?
By: Daryl Stout to C.G. Learn on Wed Sep 16 2020 11:12 am

Good to hear from you...several had wondered about you and your BBS.

I took it down, but so many people asked me to reconsider, so I did. We are here to stay I guess. Now I have to sit down and get to all the updates I have on my todo list LOL

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Hallo Dennis!

Theodore Albrecht, a musicologist at Kent think that while he
was hard of hearing, he wasn't stone deaf.

What does Beethoven have to say about that?

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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Charles,

Seems it has gotten very Quiet here.

There are other things in life besides BBSing.

I do understand that certainly.

I have a file on the BBS called "BEASYSOP.ZIP"...for those
who ever considered being a Sysop. Topics covered are:

1) Definition of a Twit -- Grant Bierman

2) You Want To Be A Sysop?? -- Tom Ezell

3) The Thankless Job -- Kris Lewis

4) Caring For Pet Sysops -- Fred Hunt

5) The True Twit Test -- Author Unknown

6) The Sysop Of A BBS -- Daryl Stout

Portions of it are funny...but sadly, much of it is true.
One Sysop, after a Co-Sysop, shared their logon with a
friend, caused that Sysop to shut his system down, go offline
forever, and sell his equipment (this was in 1985).

When I read #4 to a fellow Sysop (who was also a ham radio
operator...and this was patterned after ham radio operators,
but I modified it for Pet Sysops)...when I got to the last
section of "Breeding", he said "HELLO!!" <BG>.

Daryl

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C.G.,

I took it down, but so many people asked me to reconsider, so I did. We are here to stay I guess. Now I have to sit down and get to all the updates I have on my todo list LOL

A Sysop's work is never done. I was fixing glitches with the FTN
areas. On my end:

1) I had errors in the AREAS.BBS file, as they weren't the same as
the message area control codes in Synchronet.

2) To accomodate my "non-connects", I had to set up an insecure area
for incoming packets. But, I discovered that these weren't getting
tossed. So, I had to modify the batch file to move everything from
there into a secure directory before I tossed things.

3) I discovered I had some wrong addresses from the hubs, and a
security violation was the result.

4) I discovered that some of the nodes had a packet password, and
I don't use them. The session passwords and areafix passwords are
the same, though.

I think I've got the bugs worked out now (now, I just jinxed
myself <G>).

Daryl

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What does Beethoven have to say about that?

Beethoven's Fifth is now in liters. <G>

Daryl

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Re: Re: Hello?
By: Daryl Stout to C.G. Learn on Fri Sep 18 2020 12:37 am

A Sysop's work is never done. I was fixing glitches with the FTN
areas. On my end:

I hear ya on that. My todo list is 2 pages long, and everytime I fix one, I see two more that I have to add to the list...LOL

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I think I've got the bugs worked out now (now, I just jinxed
myself <G>).

I don't think that ever happens, atleast not in my lifetime for me...LOL

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C.G.,

I hear ya on that. My todo list is 2 pages long, and everytime I fix
one, I see two more that I have to add to the list...LOL

Then, you have to find more round tuit's to get it done. <G>

What I hate is when reading the autoposts, or look back at bulletins,
I see errors, and grumble "D@mn!! Another one I missed!!" :P

But, you really need "a second set of eyes" when prepping a document.
You can look at that thing hundreds of times, and never see it. Bring
in someone else, and they'll spot it right off the bat!!

Daryl

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I think I've got the bugs worked out now (now, I just jinxed
myself <G>).

I don't think that ever happens, atleast not in my lifetime for
me...LOL

Well, when a Sysop goes off on vacation, the BBS develops its own
case of "separation anxiety", and promptly crashes.

Daryl

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Then, you have to find more round tuit's to get it done. <G>

LOL, yup, I know what you mean

What I hate is when reading the autoposts, or look back at bulletins,
I see errors, and grumble "D@mn!! Another one I missed!!" :P

I find mistakes everyday

But, you really need "a second set of eyes" when prepping a document.
You can look at that thing hundreds of times, and never see it. Bring
in someone else, and they'll spot it right off the bat!!

My roommate Nick, does my proofreading now, but even he misses
things. The language really flies when both of us miss it...LOL

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Well, when a Sysop goes off on vacation, the BBS develops its own
case of "separation anxiety", and promptly crashes.

Right you are. Without fail, if I go out of town, something happens to
lock up the system. Last time, a hard drive failed in my RAID setup, it
kept going, but it slowed the system down to a crawl. It's def not a
boring hobby. LOL

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C.G.,

Then, you have to find more round tuit's to get it done. <G>

LOL, yup, I know what you mean

Mine are back ordered. <G>

What I hate is when reading the autoposts, or look back at bulletins,
I see errors, and grumble "D@mn!! Another one I missed!!" :P

I find mistakes everyday

And, you feel so stupid afterwards. :P

But, you really need "a second set of eyes" when prepping a document. You can look at that thing hundreds of times, and never see it. Bring
in someone else, and they'll spot it right off the bat!!

My roommate Nick, does my proofreading now, but even he misses
things. The language really flies when both of us miss it...LOL

LOL...and I'll bet you're eating humble pie and salted crow. My late wife
got me fat on both of those. <G>

Daryl

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C.G.,

the best proofer I had, was my Mom, she was a english major, and a spelling genius, nothing ever got by her. but, she's gone now. The
worst is when you read it, and several other people read it, and
everyone misses the most simple mistake, then a bbs user catches it,
and calls you on your mistake. Happens all the time. LOL

My late wife, who had poor eyesight (and thick glasses) did the same
thing. I got fat on humble pie and salted crow. <G>

Daryl

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Re: Re: Hello?
By: Daryl Stout to C.g. Learn on Wed Sep 23 2020 06:57 am

But, you really need "a second set of eyes" when prepping a
document. You can look at that thing hundreds of times, and never
see it. Bring in someone else, and they'll spot it right off the

bat!!

the best proofer I had, was my Mom, she was a english major, and a spelling genius, nothing ever got by her. but, she's gone now. The worst is when you read it, and several other people read it, and everyone misses the most simple mistake, then a bbs user catches it, and calls you on your mistake. Happens all the time. LOL

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Re: Re: Hello?
By: C.g. Learn to Daryl Stout on Tue Sep 22 2020 04:07 pm

Well, when a Sysop goes off on vacation, the BBS develops its own
case of "separation anxiety", and promptly crashes.

Right you are. Without fail, if I go out of town, something happens to
lock up the system. Last time, a hard drive failed in my RAID setup, it
kept going, but it slowed the system down to a crawl. It's def not a
boring hobby. LOL

I'm a bit behind as always but Asian Link will maybe me available via a new path better for Tablets etc.

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Re: Re: Hello?
By: C.G. Learn to Daryl Stout on Fri Sep 25 2020 03:59 pm

Re: Re: Hello?
By: Daryl Stout to C.g. Learn on Wed Sep 23 2020 06:57 am

But, you really need "a second set of eyes" when prepping a
document. You can look at that thing hundreds of times, and never
see it. Bring in someone else, and they'll spot it right off the

bat!!

the best proofer I had, was my Mom, she was a english major, and a spelling genius, nothing ever got by her. but, she's gone now. The worst is when you read it, and several other people read it, and everyone misses the most simp mistake, then a bbs user catches it, and calls you on your mistake. Happens the time. LOL

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LOL, reminds me of beta testing Tim Stike's first Telegard release. We chuckled and told him Colour and Color needed to match. He'd automatically used his Canadian spelling..

He ended up using American spelling as there was a lot less to edit that way.

Tim also carried on Martin's work to make the software as disability aware as possible. long gone now but at the time, it was state of the art for blind and visually impaired folks and even the 'fast keys' were setup with sip-n-puff users in mind.

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Hello, Carol Shenkenberger.
On 10/31/20 10:42 AM you wrote:

Right you are. Without fail, if I go out of town, something
happens to lock up the system. Last time, a hard drive failed in
my RAID setup, it kept going, but it slowed the system down to a
crawl. It's def not a boring hobby. LOL

I'm a bit behind as always but Asian Link will maybe me available
via a new path better for Tablets etc.

Is that so? It sounds interesting. Tell us more please?

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