• Re: SBBS

    From Warp 4@VERT/MEMTW to First Officer on Sunday, November 15, 2015 01:35:40
    Re: Re: SBBS
    By: First Officer to Dreamer on Sat Jun 29 2013 04:15 pm

    You may have hit it right here. I had problems start when I did an upgrade o 1/6/13 that was the first update I had done in a while. That was when proble started. Msg pointers for some Users (only a small few) went haywire too. So that is about the time frame You are talking about. I updated prolly shortly after this revision took place..

    I know this is an old message I am responding to, but seeing this makes me miss First Officer. Poison just restarted his board here in Memphis, and he mentioned it to me, so thought I would check it out once again. Nice to see his system polls for DoveNet still :)

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Bill Gordon on Monday, March 14, 2005 03:31:22
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    To: Bill Gordon
    Re: SBBS
    By: Bill Gordon to All on Sun Mar 13 2005 07:14 pm

    Hello All.

    I have been installing BBS software and running BBSs for many years. I have tried to install SBBS v3.12 for the last 2 weeks, with no good results. If it's not a problem with the files areas, it's a problem with the message bas If it's not a problem with the qwk setup, it's a problem getting to the FTP.

    I'm not saying there's a problem with the software, it's just that I am unab to make it work. I am running an RA clone right now, so I think I'd just better leave well enough alone.

    I congratulate everyone who is able to make SBBS work; unfortunately, I have not been one of them.

    Very strange. Even when I was more clueless than not about Synch, I was able to (with help) get it up and going. Quite a mystery.

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Bill Gordon on Monday, March 14, 2005 03:35:20
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    To: Bill Gordon
    Re: SBBS
    By: Bill Gordon to Angus Mcleod on Mon Mar 14 2005 04:25 am

    To: Angus Mcleod
    Hello Angus.

    19 Apr 41 02:12, you wrote to me:

    Bill, even if you've decided *not* to run Synchronet after all, I hope you will stick around long enough so that the gurus here get a chance to interact with you to find out what your problem(s) are/were.

    If there's a problem with the software, we all want to know about it and get it dealt with. And that goes for ease-of-use issues as well. If you were making some sort of error, we'd like to know, so we can address that too, perhaps with a change to the installation procedure.

    So don't give up on us entirely just yet, please!

    Tuesday, I am going to sit down with my copy of SBBS v3.12 and try again on PII/400. I'm going to document EVERY step I take, and make note of EVERY response I get. So far, I have followed the Sysop.htm TO THE LETTER and hav had no good results. I'm going to do it again, and post EVERYTHING in a tex file for download on my site (like I did before).

    As I've said, I've been running BBSs for years, WildCat, Remote Access, and EleBBS/EleWeb (an RA clone), so I am no novice.

    There are things about SBBS I like, and that's the reason I wanted to change But not being able to get it to run makes it all a terrible headache.

    Again I'll say.... thats wierd. I'm not clueless to Synch anymore but still not within the "expert" level yet with it... and the only problems i've encountered have been very minor and eventually fixable. I'm still having a small problem with my text.dat but i THINK i know how I can fix it. Just haven't had time. The problem hasn't kept users from applying or has made it difficult to use my BBS -- so it hasn't been a priority for me to look into just yet. Other than that, my Synchronet system is working great. So this is truly odd.

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Bill Gordon on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 18:12:45
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    To: Bill Gordon
    Re: SBBS
    By: Bill Gordon to All on Tue Mar 15 2005 07:34 pm

    Hello All.

    I quit. I've worked on this thing all day, and nothing is going right.

    Forget it. Thanks for your help.

    I haven't been paying 100% attention to this thread, but last I checked, wasn't your help asked for? Logs, etc? If you have provided those, give Rob a chance to tech it out. He's a good programmed but he's not Jesus Christ. He can't wave a magic wand and make the problem go away. He needs to trouble shoot it and figure it out. Aside from the Synchronet code being extensive,
    he does have a wife, family and social life. Real life tends to take priority for a programmer who is not getting paid to code his software.

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Mrproper on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 01:21:39
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    To: Mrproper
    Re: SBBS
    By: Mrproper to Bill Gordon on Wed Mar 16 2005 07:06 am

    To: Bill Gordon
    Re: SBBS By: Bill Gordon to All on Tue Mar 15 2005 01:38 pm

    Hello All.

    I quit. I've worked on this thing all day, and nothing is going right.

    Forget it. Thanks for your help.

    Bill


    Lordy lordy.. quitters never get anything accomplished..

    shall I cry a tear for you?

    If I quit just because I ran into tons of complications with BBS Software my BBS never would have exsisted, much less be over 10 years old as it stands.

    The BBS Scene is based on cooperation. Yes, we need to get the word out and continue to help it grow again. HOWEVER -- that does not mean the BBS Scene
    is for everyone. Whats good for the goose is not nessesarily good for the gander.

    Back in the day, I used to Pester people into trying to join Xpresit. Ask Jokester if he's still ranting and raving about me someplace. It used to be somethin he got on my case for. However, I'm glad he did.

    I've long since found that how many BBS's are in my Network, how many users
    it has and how many posts it gets or not is irrelevant. QUALITY is prefered over quantity. If you throw elements into a situation that do not mix well, instead of progress you get kaos.

    So if someone wants to give up on something BBS Related, or leave the scene
    or my BBS or my Network I'm not going to say a word to try and stop them.

    If something doesn't make them happy -- well, lets just say missery loves company. It's bad to force anyone to do something they really don't want to do.

    It makes them unhappy and dealing with their unhappiness makes everyone ulse unhappy. Let people do as they will.

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to MBR on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:16:47
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    To: MBR
    Re: SBBS
    By: MBR to Time Warrior on Wed Mar 16 2005 02:11 pm

    To: Time Warrior
    Re: SBBS By: Time Warrior to Mrproper on Wed Mar 16 2005 02:21 am




    is for everyone. Whats good for the goose is not nessesarily good for the gander.

    does anyone actually know what that means? kinda like the saying "There's more than one way to skin a cat" first of all. who wants to skin a cat. and secondly just how many ways is there to skin the cat? i can only think of one.

    Well as for skinning a cat you got a point. As for "whats good for the goose is good for the gander" simply means "if its good for them, it's good for me as well". A "goose" is the female of the species and the "gander" is the
    male.

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Digital Man on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 23:48:24
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    To: Digital Man
    Re: SBBS
    By: Digital Man to Time Warrior on Thu Mar 17 2005 12:10 am

    To: Time Warrior
    Re: SBBS By: Time Warrior to MBR on Wed Mar 16 2005 12:16 pm

    is for everyone. Whats good for the goose is not nessesarily good f gander.

    does anyone actually know what that means? kinda like the saying "Ther more than one way to skin a cat" first of all. who wants to skin a cat secondly just how many ways is there to skin the cat? i can only think one.

    Well as for skinning a cat you got a point. As for "whats good for the go is good for the gander" simply means "if its good for them, it's good for as well". A "goose" is the female of the species and the "gander" is the male.

    I'm pretty sure that cliche' is normally used to specifically refer to the different sexes. In other words:

    What's okay/acceptible for a man, should also be okay/acceptible for a woman

    If you're using it in some other context, you're misusing it.

    I do not think it is male / female specific.

    It clearly does not mean whats ok/acceptible for a man, should also be acceptible for a woman. Because if what is ok for the goose (female) is also ok for the gander (male) then to get as technical about syntax as you've decided to get -- this means that a woman thinks that what is good for her should also be good for her mate being male.

    I think (but do not know for a fact) that this is based on a woman's irrationality and lack of logic when she gets emotional. Ya know -- the age old problem of a woman thinking that the guy is doing something just to be a jerk, the woman EXPECTING a guy to know what is on her mind instead of communicating because in her perception -- it is so clear and obvious to her that she thinks if it also does not appear to be clear and obvious to the guy -- then the guy is simply pretending to not understand just to be an asshole for reasons unknown to her.

    I think the whole phrase is simply based on the age old communication problem between men and women.

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Poindexter Fortran on Sunday, March 20, 2005 20:43:58
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    To: Poindexter Fortran
    Re: Re: SBBS
    By: Poindexter Fortran to Time Warrior on Mon Mar 21 2005 01:48 am

    To: Time Warrior
    Time Warrior wrote to Mrproper <=-

    Back in the day, I used to Pester people into trying to join Xpresit.

    I can vouch for TW. :)

    Alot of people can :-) But if your Matt Munson (you had alot of different handles) I hardly talked to ya much less had a chance to pester ya. You've always had this tendancy to dissapear for long durrations :-) Plus your BBS was always going up and down and up and down all the time (i.e - 6 months up, 1 year down -- that kinda thing) :-)

    I'm surprised you weren't shocked when I switched to Synchronet. I was always an RG/TG/Mystic type of Sysop before that :-)

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  • From Time Warrior@VERT to Artiken on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 19:09:31
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    To: Artiken
    Re: Re: SBBS
    By: Artiken to All on Tue Mar 22 2005 05:37 am

    Digital wrote:

    digital man

    Snapple "Real Fact" #161: The first TV network kids show in the U.S.
    was "Captain Kangaroo."

    Hey DM,

    I was reading www.rotten.com last night. I was doing some research for
    my father. He wants me to find some totaly nuseating pictures of real
    death to show my nephew. He is obsessed with first person shooter games
    and thinks the more graphic the better. He also thinks that it isn't a
    good paint/snow/ice ball fight if someone doesn't get hurt.

    I noticed in the obituaries for 2004 that the Captain died. (http://deadpool.rotten.com/deaths2004.html) The entry says this
    "Captain Kangaroo 23-Jan-2004 Captain Kangaroo, Bob Keeshan, dies in Quechee, VT, after a long illness."

    Well like George Burns said, "Getting Old just means that you get to
    watch all of your friends and loved ones die."

    Its good of you to undertake that (no pun intended). People, espeially children, need to learn the difference between action entertainment and real life issues. I think in general there are 4 factors at fault, speaking in general:

    #1 - parents being too busy in this fast paced world to enforce those kinds
    of concepts to their children.

    #2 - The main stream media enforcing in their minds that this sort of thing
    is "cool" and should be embraced as more than simply fiction.

    #3 - Everyone, including children, has their own personality and some people are more open minded than others regardless.

    #4 - Schools not caring and doing NOTHING about it.

    Most people these days seem to be media sheep anyways.

    There are a good amount of people, including myself who are semi-intuitive. The human race is far from being able to know, understand or explain the powers of the human mind, physics, quantum physics and everything inbetween.

    Yet stupid media sheep watch these scifi movies and think it's an all or nothing concept and buy into the "BS" that anyone with the least amount of intuition is a full blown "psychic" and can read minds or tell the future.

    Trust me I think if any of us had the ability to know what those winning
    lotto numbers are, none of us would let that goto waste. lol

    The human race is very deluded and needs to pull the stick out of its collective ass as soon as humanly possible.

    I hope your mission to correct your Newphew's line of thinking will be corrected. God forbid he ever beats the crap out of some kid for "refusing to tell the future" or goes killing small animals or something thinking that an animal sacrafice can actually conjur up some sort of supernatural powers.

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  • From IB Joe@VERT to All on Friday, November 30, 2018 21:29:49
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    Finding all kinds of things working today...

    :)
    IB Joe
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of Joe's BBS
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