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    From August Abolins@2:221/360 to Alan Ianson on Fri May 10 02:53:00 2019
    Hi Alan,
    On <Thu, 09 May 19>, you wrote me:

    Andrew Pamment wrote Magicka BBS, a BBS that has internal BW support
    so you could try a Magicka BBS. His own BBS is called The Fat
    Sandwich at sandwich.magickabbs.com on port 2023 or SSH port 2024.


    Andrew only had a very small subset of fidonet echos. No FIDOTEST. I picked OTHERNETS. The downloaded bluewave packet had about 760+ messages. But there was a new problem. All the message dates were:

    "ddd, nn Dec 00 00:00"

    ..where the only things that changed were ddd for the day of the week, and nn for the date.

    Then... there was another problem. I accidentally hit the Space-Bar and the BBS disconnected me. But when I tried a reconnect, and entered my login credentials, the BBS would report "Already logged in" and disconnect me. I waited about 15 minutes and even pulled the internet connection too. But when I tried to reconnect, I got the same "Already logged in" and it would disconnect me. :( I have now waited over an hour, and the same thing is happening.

    I wanted to test a QWK packet, but I guess this little experiment won't work
    at that Fat Sandwich. :(

    I'll give him a shout about the above session problem.


    ../|ug


    * SeM. 2.26 * 'The universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter'

    --- Concord/2/BW 001B30d (Reg.)
    * Origin: - rbb - telnet://rbb.homeip.net - (2:221/360)
  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to August Abolins on Fri May 10 15:17:40 2019
    Hi! August,

    On 10 May 19 02:53, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

    Andrew only had a very small subset of fidonet echos. No FIDOTEST.

    Send him a netmail at 3:640/461 and ask for the area to be connected. It's far easier for him to ask than for me to hook him up.

    I wanted to test a QWK packet, but I guess this little experiment
    won't work at that Fat Sandwich. :(
    I'll give him a shout about the above session problem.

    Tell him of your difficulty, with my compliments, and ask for better service. :)

    Cheers,
    Paul.

    ... I ruin my day when I've put the Left Sock on my Right Foot.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20130515
    * Origin: Quinn's Rock - Live from Paul's Xubuntu desktop! (3:640/1384)
  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to August Abolins on Fri May 10 00:39:08 2019
    Andrew only had a very small subset of fidonet echos. No FIDOTEST. I
    picked
    OTHERNETS. The downloaded bluewave packet had about 760+ messages. But there
    was a new problem. All the message dates were:

    "ddd, nn Dec 00 00:00"

    That is odd. Do you see that when you get messages here or other BBSs?

    You could try looking at those messages in another mail reader and see if that problem shows itself there as well.

    Then... there was another problem. I accidentally hit the Space-Bar and the BBS disconnected me. But when I tried a reconnect, and entered my login credentials, the BBS would report "Already logged in" and disconnect me. I
    waited about 15 minutes and even pulled the internet connection too. But when
    I tried to reconnect, I got the same "Already logged in" and it would disconnect me. :( I have now waited over an hour, and the same thing is happening.

    Your BBS session exited, crashed maybe. Andrew will want to know about that.

    I wanted to test a QWK packet, but I guess this little experiment won't work at that Fat Sandwich. :(

    I'll give him a shout about the above session problem.

    Yep, Andrew will be glad to assist and I'm sure will want to know how your BBS experience goes on Magicka.

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)
  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Alan Ianson on Fri May 10 20:16:00 2019
    Hello Alan!

    ** 10.05.19 - 00:39, Alan Ianson wrote to August Abolins:

    Andrew only had a very small subset of fidonet echos. No FIDOTEST. I
    picked OTHERNETS. The downloaded bluewave packet had about 760+
    messages. But there was a new problem. All the message dates were:

    "ddd, nn Dec 00 00:00"

    That is odd. Do you see that when you get messages here or other BBSs?

    The above date problem is *only* on Fat Sandwich (Magicka).


    You could try looking at those messages in another mail reader and see if
    that problem shows itself there as well.

    True. But if it ain't gonna look right in SemPoint, I have to move on. I don't want this to turn into a BW debug/test. This is initially a
    SemPoint test! ;)

    SemPoint *wants* to work well, but it can't do its job if the data in the packet it gets is munged. :(

    Meanwhile, this has been quite a ride into telnetting into BBSes. I am totally impressed with the telnetbbsguide.com It is a GREAT asset for the BBS community.

    I am primarily a "message user", so spending too much time on any BBS is
    not my thing. But I was impressed with the creativity (funny ansii
    screens) and unique styles of the systems I checked out.

    I was *almost* convinced to delve into BBS sysoping, again too!. But
    today, my system would be pretty boring"

    Welcome screen:

    "Want to play a game..?"

    Main menu:

    [M]essages.


    That's it! LOL


    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.38
    * Origin: /|ug's Point, Ont. CANADA (2:221/1.58)
  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to August Abolins on Sat May 11 00:41:18 2019
    I am primarily a "message user", so spending too much time on any BBS is
    not my thing. But I was impressed with the creativity (funny ansii
    screens) and unique styles of the systems I checked out.

    I was *almost* convinced to delve into BBS sysoping, again too!. But
    today, my system would be pretty boring"

    You can be a node in fidonet with or without a BBS.

    I happen to have a bit of a BBS bug so I still have a BBS online but it isn't required.

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)