Subj : Re: Do Not Call To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Fri Oct 25 2019 01:11:56 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 16-Oct-2019 10:52 <=- BM> Welcome back again! Thank you... and now I finally am truly back... shouldn't be any more real trips now until next April... :) Maybe I'll finally get some of this backlog taken care of... :) I didn't even bring the computer with me to the camp for this last trip, since it was just an overnight, and I just didn't want the hassle of transfering the files back and forth this time... :) NB>> And now answering from the Pond, 10 September at about 12:15am NB>> (yes, that's just after midnight)... got up here this afternoon, NB>> had just enough time to unpack stuff before a friend came over to NB>> work on our Pond Directory... it was needing final tweaks before NB>> we publish... our fall Board meeting is Saturday... ok, by the NB>> time you get this it will be was Saturday.... ;) Then I went and NB>> visited with another friend that I'd not been able to connect NB>> with all the previous visits this year... So here I am, answering NB>> a couple messages before going to bed... ;) NB>> Editing to say... I guess I was already partly asleep, as that NB>> should be October not September there.... BM> Or that was some long weekend! Sounds like you got a lot of sork and BM> fun stuff done. A lot of work, anyway... And yes, some fun, too... :) BM>> Apparently fixed whatever problem there as - sometimes things appear BM>> working properly from the SysOp's side but not on the User's side. NB>> Turned out that I'd not updated the port number in the dialing stack NB>> on the laptop, so it couldn't connect... that will be fixed before my NB>> next trip with expected access.... :) I had wondered if that was the NB>> issue, but didn't have access to anything that could confirm, or give NB>> me the right port... BM> Yes, usually better not to go randomly 'correcting' things. Over the BM> years I have had various connection issues, most resolved by waiting BM> for the other side to come back online, a handful by rebooting, and BM> then a few where an updating was needed on my side. When I got home, and was using the regular computer, there wasn't any issue... so obviously the issue was all on my end... actually rather a relief... ;) NB>>>> They think we should believe them on that... ;) Both the hold NB>>>> message and the scam/spammers play to our supposed credulity... ;) BM>>> Yes; we tend to believe others even though we don't know who they are BM>>> -- otherwise why would they take the time and effort to inform us? NB>>> Guess there's not that much effort in simply having a recording NB>>> keep replaying.... and much repetition is supposed to make it NB>>> more believable.... ;) BM>> Yes, recreate the format of a real/valid source to reinforce the BM>> hoax's validity. LIS, we've gone to not answering the phone if we BM>> don't recognize the number display on on the Caller ID. NB>> Sometimes I'm just curious enough to pick up, just not say anything NB>> until there's a real hello... but usually it just drops the call on NB>> its own.... BM> I've sometimes wondered if picking up the phone (so effectively BM> answering) increases the spam, at least by that caller as identified BM> as a number probably answered by a human (as less than the usual four BM> rings when answered by an answering machine). Not necessarily... Somewhere along the line we acquired a telephone handset that has a built-in "Tele-Zapper" which sends a tone that is supposed to tell a computer that it got a not-in-use line... dunno if that is why we get so many hang-ups from what are obviously computer generated calls or not... even though that handset isn't particularly useable any more (the display has given up the ghost), we've left it in the circuit, as it generates the tone to any of the other extensions... And even the ones where there's actually a real person on the other side, not saying anything generally ends up with their hanging up when they get no response.... The four-ringers just keep trying, sometimes more than 3-4 times in a single day, so they don't seem to be detered by our NOT picking up the phone, either... BM>> I don't remember what? Do recall last weekend was rainy; enough BM>> so the river levels were getting close to flood stage and though hasn't BM>> rained this week locally it has to the north and all that water is BM>> coming down and will cause local rivers to go over flood. Nothing BM>> major like last Spring. but the usual low-lying areas will be flooded. NB>> It's like the on-going issues here (Rochester) with the Lake Ontario NB>> shoreline any time there's some rain and a bit extra wind.... BM> They announced on the local news this morning additional road closures BM> on both sides of the Mississippi River, which is about two feet over BM> flood stage. No major traffic re-routing like last Spring, just some BM> lower-traffic neighbourhood streets, though they did show a four-lane BM> road on the Illinois side with a car passing another and both kicking BM> up some pretty impressive water rooster tails! Just the typical minor league flooding, obviously... ;) NB>> Fall's here... ;) BM> Yup! A lot of the trees I can see from my window up here are starting BM> to turn colours. Still early for the Burning Bush in the back yard BM> (the one I trimmed out the dead branches), but we're thinking the BM> Burning Bush is what died and what's left is a wild shrub that got BM> mixed in years ago. Guess you'll get a better idea as the fall progresses... Here in Rochester, the colors are starting to get nice... up at the Pond last trip, the colors were obviously at peak, and quite pretty, though not as brilliant as some years... this trip, most of the leaves were on the ground already... some small patches of color... A little further north, in Canada, it was more like getting towards peak still... of course, our camp is nestled just outside the Adirondack Park Preserve, so somewhat in the mountains... :) NB>>> And more important that the service (weather from graph.no) NB>>> actually still is working, despite the short glitch... :) BM>> Yes; short glitches are better than permanent outages! NB>> SOW, this morning when I was doing the morning checkup, it wasn't NB>> responding again... hopefully by the time I get home, it will be NB>> back to normal... :) BM> "Absense makes the user grow fonder?" Maybe... In any case, it seems to be working just fine at the moment... ;) BM>>>> Really clever to decipher some of mine! Not illegible but sometimes BM>>>> close,plus I tend to use a lot of abbreviations and symbols. NB>>>> Well, that is more cryptic than merely cursive... BM>>>> Though I've been cursed at for my cryptic cursive! NB>>>> Yours is obviously more of a challenge... ;) BM>>> Sometimes!! NB>>> It would appear... BM>> Sometimes that is the problem: it appears, just isn't apparent! NB>> Ummm..... ok.... BM> And sometimes I can't even read it! That IS illegible... ttyl neb .... I still have a full deck, I just shuffle slower now. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .