Subj : ET phone home
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Tue Jan 10 2017 07:34 am

On Mon Jan-09-2017 12:59, Ward Dossche (2:292/854) wrote to Roger Nelson:

RN> Even though
RN> most of the naysaying, anti D'Bridge troublemakers have faded into the
RN> past, there are still a few around who want to cause trouble for 2
RN> reasons.  1) they can, and 2) they don't have an inkling of what D'Bridge
RN> is about.

 WD> I find this a perfectly valid analyses.

Thanks.

 WD> I think I got my license KEE in 1988 ... Eewwhhhh ... I'm in my 
 WD> 29th DB-year.  Back in those days there was a pre-configured 
 WD> setting that made a rescan the first time someone linked-in to an 
 WD> echo but due to some bug it also mirrored the complete content of 
 WD> that or these echo[es] back up the path with a fresh header and 
 WD> everything.

That wasn't DB130, was it?  That's the version I began with.

 WD> So you knew a new D'Bridge-customer had popped-up when massive
 WD> rescans of echoes were posted. This could be avoided and people
 WD> with a brain were not affected.  

(-:

 WD> In those days the usage of D'BROKE or D'BUG became fashionable. The
 WD> problem was fixed, the myth persisted, especially among 
 WD> Frontdoor-users. JoHo had assembled a fanclub and I remember a
 WD> Eurocon where he had a group of followers that were on his trail
 WD> all the time as if he were a guru of some kind. So when he 
 WD> mentioned D'BUG, they all started doing that. He stopped doing that
 WD> when I had a private talk with him July 2nd 1995.

Hero worship.  I remember a bunch of guys (okay, maybe a few) telling Chris 
that they could break his security and make their own kee, but no one that I 
know of succeeded.


Regards,

Roger 
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