Subj : Re: Man ....
To   : Jas Hud
From : Atreyu
Date : Mon Mar 07 2022 08:57:47

On 07 Mar 22  02:19:09, Jas Hud said the following to Atreyu:

M> bbs people are parasitic pieces of shit usually. they take and they dont gi
A> 
A> To each his own I guess. BBS people paid for a LOT of my tech stuff in the 
A> early 90's. Even the annoying ones paid the subscription.
JH> 
JH> i never heard of your stuff until the telnet age.

I've never heard of a "Jas hud" until a few years ago but not here for a penis
comparison contest. Names don't impress me and shouldn't impress others.

All I know is that of the few things I've read, you've taken it upon yourself
to insult someone who wrote BBS software. Either you have written your own and
are proud of your stuff, or your name is really Rob Swindell, or you just seem
to have a way about you that seems.... negative. Anyhow, doesn't matter.

To be on topic about BBS people... In 94 had enough subscribers to pay for
the phone lines which averaged over a hundred calls a day, was published in
an article about BBS'ing in a local rag, paid for my own modems, a hard drive
upgrade at one time and license keys for several utils and doorgames. Had a
paid UUCP connection to an ISP in Toronto for newfangled Internet email and
another connection in Montreal for Usenet groups.

This was all on Renegade... endured some who laughed in my face and told me it
sucked or it "wouldn't last"  Lol, those "eleet" Sysops? Long gone now...

The annoying ones I spoke of... these are the ones who trolled me day and 
night about not having enough files. You need more files. Need more doors, 
Lord needs more turns, I got killed can you resurrect my character etc etc... 
yes, some of them subscribed.

The phone lines used to get slammed at midnight from people calling to play 
their game turns. This caused all sorts of problems with some games 
file-sharing and record locking that I had to babysit sometimes or write an 
elaborate series of OS/2 batch files and scripting to manage this. 

Then theres all the Fido crap, hubbing mail, destroying Dave Vandermeer or 
Timelord or whatever his name was on Xpressitnet, first running into RGSNet
and Exodus (I think thats where we met at the time), STN, some others. Which I
paid for the long-distance dialup modem calls to the 'states to exchange
packets. I paid the long distance bill myself. About an extra $100 a month.

Was doing all this at..... Pffffft 15 years old I think... while others in the
neighborhood were busy bumming weed and playing Nintendo.

Did I mention there was no hand-holding in the 90's... nothing to google, no 
Sysops I could bug to have them hold my hand to fix things. Had to figure all 
the shit out on my own. Or risk losing users, paying subscribers.

I didn't get into telnet till around '01 and thats around the time I made the
switch from OS/2 to Windows 2000. One summer night, said goodbye to OS/2 
forever and never looked back.

I don't call other boards except for Exodus, and don't care about what others 
think of me or my "creds" or whatever. Too busy doing my own shit.

Atreyu

--- Renegade vY2Ka2
 * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (25:25/5)

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