Subj : Re: sending to a fido address in thunderbird
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Aug 11 2022 09:09:20

  Re: Re: sending to a fido address in thunderbird
  By: Gamgee to Spectre on Thu Aug 11 2022 08:36 am

 Sp>> Can't clarify much, only that the make completed and the install
 Sp>> portion whatever it was doing destroyed the file system.  Shrug,
 Sp>> multiple times... At this point its moot anyways, I'm not going
 Sp>> near it again, the risk is too high.

 Ga> Again, this doesn't make any sense at all. There is no "install 
 Ga> portion". Things get compiled under the /sbbs directory, and *NOTHING* 
 Ga> else in the file system is touched. No idea what you could have done to 
 Ga> "destroy" anything. Maybe you were running it as 'root', but even that 
 Ga> wouldn't have affected anything outside of /sbbs. Sorry, but your story 
 Ga> doesn't hold water.

I thought he said he was running it in Windows?  The Windows version of Synchronet has an installer and comes with pre-compiled binaries (so you wouldn't have to compile anything), and there is no "root" user in Windows.
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