Subj : Anyone seen/connected to... To : Avon From : Accession Date : Sun Dec 03 2023 07:51 am Hello Avon, On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 22:05:04 +1300, you wrote: Ac>> Unfortunately, I've had to remove quite a few non-responsive nodes Ac>> lately. A> Yes I can see a few more I will likely delist from NET 1 soon, there is A> a mix of activity with various nodes but when folks depart most don't A> let you know and it's not until traffic really builds up that you find A> out. Bit of pain but part of doing the admin roles I guess.. I would imagine 'they' don't know when they depart either. Whether it be the system is left on autopilot for months on end, and then finally something breaks and they don't realize it until whenever they decide to check on things, or just don't bother and turn the machine off. But yeah, I usually take a quick look at my outbound directories once every few months and if there's backed up packets/bundles, I look further into it. A>>> That makes you older than Jesus :) Ac>> Yikes! That one hit kinda hard. ;) A> Sorry, no offense intended... just that you've been active in this space A> far longer than I have... like a wise Jedi, this is the netmail you are A> looking for... No offense taken. Just made me stop and realize how long it really has been. But then I realize Digital Man and Atreyu (shameful redirection/plug because I know they read here!) have been around even longer, and feel better because I'm not THAT old. ;) <3 Ac>> Haven't really been doing much lately besides keeping up with the Ac>> software I use that is still under development. Other than that, the Ac>> server machine is still chugging along nicely so there's no reason Ac>> to make any drastic decisions. A> I'm the same, family and work have kept me busy, I would like to create A> a system/hardware etc. that I could run several things on it at once, A> BBS HUB, Agency, NNTP server etc... but I lack the skills / knowledge to A> do it. I have three machines running upstairs that ideally would be A> (somehow) all running under one system... save some power.. it's the A> devil in the detail and the mental energy to drive the process that A> nobble me at the moment. If your interested, get yourself a cheap server machine. I snagged an HP Proliant ML310e Gen8 - Intel Xeon, 32g ram, enough hdd space (4x 2TB drives I believe) I will never use all of off Amazon I think (I would imagine you could get something 5x better now for the same price). I don't even remember how long ago but it has to have been over 5+ years now - for a few hundred bucks. I basically setup a RAID 1 array in case any single drive fails (and I don't need 8TB, heck I don't even need 4TB hdd space), install VMWare or Proxmox on it, and you can install however many VMs you want, run whatever OS you want on each separate VM, etc. Then you can either use your other hardware for other things or get rid of/sell/donate it. It's quite easy, especially after everything you've already accomplished in regards to getting old, dusty BBS related stuff to work seamlessly. ;) Ac>> Turned off my plex server VM as we don't use it any more. Also Ac>> turned off the VM that hosts Mystic for now, just due to lack of Ac>> development and me not wanting to maintain two BBSs. If g00 ever Ac>> makes his way back I can easily fire it back up where I left off, Ac>> on the latest version, with all message and file distribution Ac>> networks currently disabled. A> fair enough, I have not seen / heard from g00 in many months... but I'm A> not overly as invested in Mystic as I once was either and daily real A> life stuff has kept my focuses elsewhere also... Same. As I said, I follow the development process. When it stops, I start to lose interest. ;) Ac>> Call it 'winding down', if you will. ;) A> I hope it's not in totally, the scene would be very much the poorer for A> your departure. I don't plan on going anywhere any time soon but I do A> find my activity levels are far more variable than they once were. A> perhaps I'll end up swinging back in to a more active phase over my A> summer (or not). Guess time will tell. I have no plans or need to go anywhere any time soon, unless there's some kind of catastrophic hardware failure. My system basically runs itself with very minimal intervention (or breakage, if you will) by me. As for activity levels, it's all based on what you've done, and what you can do. When you build your entire system you always have something to do to keep you busy. When you start running out of things to do, you start slowing down and really can't do much except maintain what you've already done. When all of that runs smooth as silk, you get bored and find something else to do. ;) Regards, Nick .... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway." --- Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.34; x86_64-w64-mingw32) * Origin: _thePharcyde distribution system (Wisconsin) (21:1/200.0) .