Subj : WWIV 5.0 Release + News.
To   : mark lewis
From : RUBEN FIGUEROA
Date : Fri Jan 08 2016 07:57 am

-> 07 Jan 16 10:01, you wrote to me:

->  RF> But the Synchronet was on a server I sold and did not save the setup
->  RF> (to my regret)

-> i was only going by your other statement which seemed to indicate that you 
got
-> rid of the software, not the machine... i knew you had done mystic at one 
time
-> but i wasn't sure if you still did... i've got a couple of others i'm 
thinking
-> about bringing up to see what they're like... while i hate to do it, i'm
-> probably going to be forced to leave my beloved RA/FD/FE setup behind and 
move
-> to something native to modern OSes (hint: linux) that definitely has offline
-> mail capabilities and i'm really wanting bluewave compatibility also for my
-> users... of the few doors that i have installed, scrabble and king of the 
board
-> are really the only two that see any action... so those two are must haves, 
as
-> well, and that means dosemu for them... hopefully without the problems that
-> others have seen running them in dosemu...

-> )\/(ark

-> "So let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When 
you've
-> killed all the bad guys, and when it's all perfect, and just and fair, and 
when
-> you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to 
do
-> with the people like you? The trouble makers. How are you going to protect 
your
-> glorious revolution from the next one?" - The twelfth Doctor

-> ... Chicken Little was right.
-> ---
->  * Origin:  (1:3634/12.73)

Guess I was not clear that the machine went, but it was a rush job, this
financial org was in a hot spot and needed to prove they had a back up
machine ready to go in less than 24 hrs if they completely lost their
server (only have one) and they did not and could not invest online back
up service.  They only have dsl where they are at so I proposed setting
up this older server I was playing with and didn't need, so they bought
the windows server os and I setup and got their financial program
running which requires a domain server with sql.  We met the deadline
and they are happy.  That was in December, the worst time of year to get
things done in a hurry.

Anyways I have though about Linux, but am so green that I've been
hesistant of trying (green to Linux).  I bit my teeth on command line
with the old dos 2.11 and more comfortable getting thins done at the
command prompt than using the GUI, though the gui does ease certain
functions, but I like my cmd/bat files.

I've tried all the bbs software, almost and wwiv is one I have not and
am trying out.  Mostly because it is so different than the other
packages.  Ezycon is one I have not tried but from what I have seen it
fits into most of how the others are setup.  So far Mystic is my
favorite.  I use it to feed my other bbs's as points.  

Wildcat I hang onto because I am so vested in it, it is ridiculous on
the amount of money I have spent on it.  But the WinServer portion is
great and has been worth the money to maintain and update.  Though I
have not paid for updating in about a year but have not seen anything I
want to spend the money on updating my current setup.

Well off to work I go.  See ya later.



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