From Daryl --
"Internet Rex 2.29 is TOAST. Something has happened with the program, a memory module, or something done by Windows 10."
He will still autopost but most everything else is off line again until further notice.
Joe
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Hello JOE,

From Daryl --
"Internet Rex 2.29 is TOAST. Something has happened with the
program, a memory module, or something done by Windows 10."
He will still autopost but most everything else is off line again
until further notice.

That's too bad. I hope Daryl can get things sorted somehow.

There is binkit that is part of Synchronet. It doesn't have all the features that Irex does but it is a very nice and well behaved FTN mailer. Works very much like binkd and is well intigrated in Synchronet.

I'd be more than happy to help him if he needs help, if I had a way of contacting him.

Of course there are many mailers he could use. The Argus type mailers, Argus/Taurus/Radius are also full GUI mailers for Windows he could use.

The choice in mailers can be the hardest part of getting setup, deciding on a mailer and getting it going.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hi Alan --

I'd be more than happy to help him if he needs help, if I had a way of contacting him.

Drop me a line at joemackey108 at comcast.net and I'll give you his
email address or pass along your msg.
Joe



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On 3/3/2020 4:11 PM, between "Alan Ianson : JOE MACKEY":

There is binkit that is part of Synchronet. It doesn't have all the
features that Irex does but it is a very nice and well behaved FTN
mailer. Works very much like binkd and is well intigrated in Synchronet.

I knew that I heard of binkit before:

https://tinyurl.com/qobn8gz

https://bookmanager.com/tbm/?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword&qse=sdh9e-E9NuZEGc3MbW01oQ

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Quoting Joe Mackey to All on 03-02-20 08:42 <=-

From Daryl --
"Internet Rex 2.29 is TOAST. Something has happened with the
program, a memory module, or something done by Windows 10."
He will still autopost but most everything else is off line again
until further notice.

Thanks for the notice.... hopefully he'll get it resolved sooner than
later.... He certainly has been having a bum run of luck this last year
or so....

ttyl neb

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Nancy wrote --

Thanks for the notice.... hopefully he'll get it resolved sooner than later.... He certainly has been having a bum run of luck this last year
or so....

He sure has.
Joe




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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 03-07-20 06:22 <=-

Thanks for the notice.... hopefully he'll get it resolved sooner than
later.... He certainly has been having a bum run of luck this last
year or so....

He sure has.

Any word yet on how he might be doing...?

ttyl neb

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Nancy wrote --

Any word yet on how he might be doing...?

"Maybe" later this month, or next or not.
He's got a lot on his plate right now and this isn't high on his priority list.
He's had offers of help from several people on Fido who have written to
me and I passed the word along to him. Some directly to him.
But so much has happened in the last year its just getting him down.
Joe

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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 03-11-20 05:49 <=-

Nancy wrote --

Any word yet on how he might be doing...?

"Maybe" later this month, or next or not.
He's got a lot on his plate right now and this isn't high on his
priority list.
He's had offers of help from several people on Fido who have written
to me and I passed the word along to him. Some directly to him.
But so much has happened in the last year its just getting him down.

Understandably.... I continue to wish him the best....

ttyl neb

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Joe,

"Internet Rex 2.29 is TOAST. Something has happened with the program, a
memory module, or something done by Windows 10."
He will still autopost but most everything else is off line again until
further notice.

Well, much to the shock and disappointment to many folks...."he's
back". <G>

I still suspect Windows 10 was to blame...but even if that hadn't
occurred, nearly nonstop thunderstorms the last 6 weeks, meant no BBS
work. In the nearly 43 years I've lived here, I've never seen such a
stormy tornado season.

But, compared to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other
areas...Arkansas has only gotten "a glancing blow" from the 2020 Spring
Tornado Season.

Daryl

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Nancy,

Thanks for the notice.... hopefully he'll get it resolved sooner than NB>> later.... He certainly has been having a bum run of luck this last NB>> year or so....

He sure has.

Any word yet on how he might be doing...?

Basically, I feel like the old Hee Haw deal..."if it weren't for
bad luck, I'd have no luck at all". First, it was having to get my Mom
into a nursing home, and becoming her Power Of Attorney...then having to
deal with her death 8 months ago, and all that went with it. Then, 2
months after she died, field rats worked their way into the house,
possibly through the plumbing.

Then, it was the software crash (likely caused by something from
Microsoft Windows 10 Update), then nearly nonstop days of thunderstorms
for 6 weeks. And now, I have laparoscopic hernia surgery needed after
COVID-19 settles down.

I got with Marc Lewis, my FIDONet hub, last night, and we tweaked
Internet Rex, and I left it up all night. It has remained stable all
this time, so I'm hoping all is well. But, I told all my hubs to REMOVE
the "Continuous Mail" flag from my nodelist entry. In the nearly 43
years of living in Arkansas, this is the stormiest spring tornado season
I've ever seen.

Daryl

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Joe,

But so much has happened in the last year its just getting him down.

My luck is so bad that if I were to call the suicide hotline (never
mind the urinary or colon incontinence hotlines), I'd be asked "Can you
hold, please??". :P

Daryl

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Daryl wrote --

Well, much to the shock and disappointment to many folks...."he's
back". <G>

Took the words out of my mouth.
Don't know if this was late getting here or what, but it was dated 4/14
and this if 5/8.

I still suspect Windows 10 was to blame

Poor old Windows. Always the blame. The whipping boy of OS's.
Joe
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Daryl wrote --

My luck is so bad that if I were to call the suicide hotline

Or being told, "You again?"
Joe


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Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 04-14-20 13:34 <=-

I see that your bbs finally let go of a few messages from April... now
that it's well into May... these showed up May 7th...

Thanks for the notice.... hopefully he'll get it resolved sooner than
later.... He certainly has been having a bum run of luck this last
year or so....

He sure has.

Any word yet on how he might be doing...?

Basically, I feel like the old Hee Haw deal..."if it weren't for
bad luck, I'd have no luck at all". .... Then, it was the software
crash (likely caused by something from Microsoft Windows 10 Update),
then nearly nonstop days of thunderstorms for 6 weeks.

And now, even more thunderstorms, I'm guessing...

And now, I have laparoscopic hernia surgery needed after COVID-19
settles down.

Hopefully that can happen soon.... :)

I got with Marc Lewis, my FIDONet hub, last night, and we tweaked
Internet Rex, and I left it up all night. It has remained stable all
this time, so I'm hoping all is well.

This packet looked pretty good... but I understand you are still having issues.... ;0

But, I told all my hubs to REMOVE the "Continuous Mail" flag from my nodelist entry. In the nearly 43 years of living in Arkansas, this is
the stormiest spring tornado season I've ever seen.

The weather has indeed been very weird here, too....

ttyl neb

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