Subj : Re: Resend Daryl To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Sat Jun 20 2020 00:01:04 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 13-Jun-2020 09:42 <=- 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... BM> I took Mangling Metaphors 101 and 102! You mean it wasn't from Creative Metaphors 201....? ;) 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 setting NB>> up ILink on his computer let another batch out to here, from Apr 18th... BM> Not unusual for the mail tossers to 'get confused' and think old mail BM> is new if a flag/bit isn't set or recognized. ...I've had more than a BM> few times where my e-mail on Q.com (Qwest --> CenturyLink) has been BM> re-re-re downloaded because of a change on their end. ...So a thousand BM> and some messages later........ But these weren't dupes... I recognized them as ones that hadn't come thru before... He had a few points there where the computer was obviously on enough for him to be able to be reading/answering mail, but then not able to actually send it out until later, and it stacked up some... ;) 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 gets NB>> into one, and never lets go... ;) BM> There is something! Just being a bbs user is addictive enough... ttyl neb .... Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .