Subj : ET phone home
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Mon Jan 09 2017 04:56 am

On Sun Jan-08-2017 11:43, Nicholas Boel (1:154/10) wrote to Nick Andre:

 NB> Hello Nick,

 NB> On Sun Jan 08 2017 10:42:28, Nick Andre wrote to Nicholas Boel: 

 NA> I know... but in this case, what it appears people are freaking about
 NA> is a system is running software with a bug or in a way where it could
 NA> be fixed by changing versions, but the operator of that system refuses
 NA> to do so.

 NB> You may even be misunderstanding that whole ordeal. Allen Prunty is
 NB> not running Mystic, yet both are seemingly being blamed at the same
 NB> time. If it is indeed a fault of Mystic causing all of Roger's
 NB> dupes, then it is not Allen Prunty. If Allen Prunty is causing all
 NB> of Roger's dupes, then it is not Mystic. 

Let me say this about that and I'm not writing this to cause friction or to be 
mean, but want to point out the facts as I remember them: I don't recall ever 
placing the blame on anyone's software.  I read a lot of speculation on some 
BBS software being the cause and I wasn't buying that, nor did I respond to it. 
 That left the possibility of it happening, but usually the cause is 
misconfiguring a system, regardless of what system it is.  What I did was point 
out that there were dupes and printed the paths along with the headers and in 
many cases, the MSGID was exactly the same.  Naturally, some took afront to 
this and blamed D'Bridge simply because they don't know better.  That's on 
them.  In all the months I used D'Bridge on a trial basis before finally buying 
it in 1991, Chris was an active participant here, just as Nick is.  Even though 
most of the naysaying, anti D'Bridge troublemakers have faded into the past, 
there are still a few around who want to cause trouble for 2 reasons.  1) they 
can, and 2) they don't have an inkling of what D'Bridge is about.

 NB> That's why I stayed out of the whole ordeal in the first place.
 NB> People pointing fingers in every direction and not actually taking
 NB> the time to figure out what the actual problem is. :/

 NB>> Obviously with this option you're giving in to the possibility
 NB>> that once i bluish-purple with pink polka-dots friggin moon there
 NB>> may be a "false positive" that may slip by and never be seen.

 NA> How come I'm not seeing you in the DR echo?

 NB> What's the DR echo? I may vaguely remember you netmailing me about
 NB> this. Wasn't it originally local to your system? Sorry, it's been
 NB> an unfortunate and busy end to 2016 and beginning to 2017 so far
 NB> and I haven't had much time to do anything productive in this
 NB> hobby.

 NB> I haven't added many new echos to my system (maybe besides
 NB> Fidonet's UTF-8 echo) in quite some time. In any case, I've
 NB> actually been pondering removing a bunch, rather than adding more.
 NB> :)

Most of mine are gone simply because I tired of reading the same old stuff.

....At the end of the day, it gets dark.


Regards,

Roger 
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