To: Avon Kerr
Re: Re: Testing
By: Avon Kerr to alt.bbs.allsysop on Wed Feb 17 2016 10:17 pm
Hi Jason. Welcome to this newsgroup.
Best, Paul
Thanks! Glad to be here...
Just so everyone knows, i've been a Sysop since around 1993. I started out running VirtualBBS by Roland de Graaf and ran that through about 1997 until the bbs machine suffered a big crash, and then around 2001 I began to run a BBS again, and searched for VBBS but it wasn't around as that anymore it was around as Virtual Advanced BBS and didn't really satify everything that I wanted in a BBS and so I cam across Synchronet, which seemed to fulfill everything I wanted and begin learning and running Synchronet. Been running it ever since then.
Well, my BBS back then was The Games BBS, and after being online for a while, i was calling around to other BBSs online and found The Hard Drive Cafe BBS, which i called long distance back in the 90's because it was one of the more popular BBS's that i had heard about. Well just so happens, when i called in, i noticed a messge from the Sysop (Dave Toy) talking about how he didn't have time to run the BBS like he wanted to and was going to shut it down... Well after reaching out to him, and having several conversations, I agreed to acquire it from him, and change the name of my BBS to The Hard Drive Cafe BBS so the name would stay alive since it was one of the greats from back in the day...
Which brings me to now... Been running it ever since.. I did suffer another crash around 2007 and wasn't able to bring it back online until i was able to get things in my life situated, but brought it back online back in 2010 and moved it around a little bit, until i finally found a permanent home for it at my Web Hosting company, where it still sits today...
Glad to be here, glad to know real people monitor this group, and I look forward to being a part of the conversation here! :)
Jason
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