Re: Re: Back after 30 years!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Winzlo on Sun Mar 29 2026 10:36 am
Welcome back! It'll be interesting if you see any familiar names/handles 415/San Francisco.
Thanks. So far, nobody I recognise by name or alias. I can't imagine that many people are so committed as to bring back their BBS after an impressive layer of dust, or have the needed skill/infrastructure to achieve hosting a BBS. For me, 30 years of Linux and a few years less of Internet expreiience did a great job preparing me for ntot only my past career, but for this as well.
Not taht everyone needs to know everything about my life, I got hit by a car as a pedestrian back in 2017. Physical therapy was a bust, and my bicep was cramping any time I tried to use my right arm. It forced me into early retirement, and it took me 7 years to get most of that use of my left arm back. I bring this up because I'm always out here somewhere. I may still be getting used to navigating Synchronet, but it's getting easier and more logical every day. Kudos to Rob for that. In order to get MRC to work, I had to do some fiddling with some JS files, and this morning I finally got the BBS to link into the Synchronet IRC Network. This reminds me of the thrill of success that these kinds of feats had when they were done for the very first time. I feel like that fire in me is starting to build.
Thanks for reaching out!
Winzlo
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Brian Davidson <Winzlo>
The Down-Lo BBS - Telnet/SSH: bbs.winzlo.com
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