Subj : Nodelist recognition....
To   : Roger Nelson
From : Roy Witt
Date : Thu May 30 2013 12:21 pm


Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

[.FD.]

 RW>> It had it's own quirks that made it obsolete anyway.

 RN> It was obsolete 30 minutes after I tried it.

If it wasn't for perseverence, it would have been chucked out with the
garbage when I first got a copy of it. Eventually, I got it to work and
wrote a FD4DUMMIES tutoral, providing sample batch files and a list of
software tools needed to make it work. Jack Yates (c1997) asked me for a
copy of that tutoral and that was the only way he got FD working.

 RN>   If a mailer can't handle Distinctive Ring, and for me at that
 RN> period of time it was mandatory, then it is useless.

Ring distinction or the lack of wasn't my problem with FD...getting it to
work at all was the biggest problem.

 RN>   I even got on the case (nicely) of one of the guys who was updating
 RN> AdeptXBBS, suggesting that if they couldn't get DR to work, they
 RN> should pull that section from the manual.  I was accused of whining,
 RN> of course.  (-:

8^) I got the same treatment from my uplink (he was a big whiner) when I
wasn't getting mail from his system, 1:202/900. I finally convinced him
that it was his misconfiguration that caused the problem and he finally
admitted that he was going through a divorce and had little time to
spend tweaking his BBS and that the software upgrade he made to his system
wasn't what it was supposed to be. He finally went back to the previous
software version and that cured the problem. Meanwhile, Brenda was
re-configuring the net hubs and John's 900 hub was the first to go and
I got moved to 202/5's net hub, which was probably the best hub I've ever
had the pleasure of being linked to.

 RN> So, I deep-sixed Adept.  It was a good idea at the time, but came
 RN> with a nightmare called GateKeeper.  Another thing about it was I
 RN> couldn't send to Bill Kirby's The Twin Towers BBS in Austin, but he
 RN> could send to me and he and I spent many hours on the phone trying to
 RN> figure that out. I even offered to pay my portion of his LD bill.

Before I became a node, I used to run a BBS using Wildcat. Had I known at
the time that I would eventually be a Fidonet sysop, I wouldn't have
chosen Wildcat. I used a net202 BBS to get my Fido fix and it was using
Wildcat BBS...had I known how hard it was to implement FD with Wildcat, I
would have chosen a different BBS package.


         R\%/itt


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