Subj : Re: sending to a fido address in thunderbird
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Thu Aug 11 2022 11:34:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 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.

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

Well, I'm very confused by his whole story, but right there above he 
said "the make completed".  That implies a Linux build, not a Windows 
installer wizard.  He has actually never stated whether this was on 
Windows or Linux, which makes the whole thing rather suspect in my 
opinion.  He may just be a SBBS-hater telling tall tales...


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