Subj : Resend Re: Daryl To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sat Jun 13 2020 09:42:00 Hi Nancy! This one ought to be interesting! -=> NANCY BACKUS wrote to BARRY MARTIN <=- NB> Original Date: 02 Jun 20 14:31:46 NB> Subj: Re: Daryl -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 19-May-2020 11:10 <=- NB>>>> Good that he's not really giving up... :) And nice that there was NB>>>> less damage than first thought... :) BM>>> Yes, appears the attitude is he gets kicked, down for a bit licking BM>>> wounds but figures out how to get back up and fight back. NB>>> This is just too important to him really to let it go too easily... NB>>> and with other people pulling for him too there's encouragement to NB>>> continue... :) BM>> Agree. LIS it's sort of the get knocked down, OK, enough is enough I BM>> give up, ...no, I will not give up! and he comes back fighting. NB>> Yup, the funk doesn't last too long.... BM> He seems to come through as a lot better now his new system is being BM> build: there's light at the end of the black hole! NB> Um... yeah... good simile... I took Mangling Metaphors 101 and 102! NB>>> The important thing is that he's working on getting himself back up NB>>> and running... A rather odd spew of messages from Apr 14 to Apr 24 NB>>> appeared in MEMORIES a couple of days ago, and then nothing since... NB>>> Still working on things, I guess... :) BM>> The messages in Memories appeared to be from Daryl/his site? Possible BM>> he attempted to get back on-line and the message timestamps got BM>> screwed up and so uploaded. NB>> Yes, from Daryl's computer/bbs... I don't think the timestamps were NB>> disturbed, more like they just hadn't gone out yet, and when he tried NB>> getting things set-up, this batch went out... The real messages were NB>> all the 14th, the rest were the daily Burma-Shave ads from the 14th NB>> to the 24th.... BM> Years ago I had a private computer tech (had his own shop) replace BM> either the PSU or the motherboard (maybe both) on my computer because BM> at the time going into the Christmas season and I didn't have time to BM> do the repair. He powered up to test and the system would usually do BM> the automated BBS events -- he half-knew what they were/why occurring BM> but had to wait a few minutes for them to complete. I don't have any BM> auto-posts but could see where when Daryl was getting back on-line all BM> the missed events would trigger and so be uploaded. NB> And as I mentioned in yesterday's set of messages, apparently NB> setting up ILink on his computer let another batch out to here, NB> from Apr 18th... Not unusual for the mail tossers to 'get confused' and think old mail is new if a flag/bit isn't set or recognized. ...I've had more than a few times where my e-mail on Q.com (Qwest --> CenturyLink) has been re-re-re downloaded because of a change on their end. ...So a thousand and some messages later........ BM>>> I also suggested he didn't have to come back to ILink as a SysOp: BM>>> could come back as a regular member. NB>>> For sure.... just has to find a bbs to call that has ILink... ;) NB>> I've not yet checked out calling any other bbses that might carry it, NB>> though... probably should sometime... BM> Last I mentioned anything he seemed to pretty much dismiss the BM> user-only aspect. NB> Not really surprising... From what I've seen, once a sysop, it NB> gets into one, and never lets go... ;) There is something! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Songs from the Hospital Hit Parade: "Going to take a Sentimental Gurney" --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .