Subj : Re: Opus-CBCS - any boards on
To   : Fandarel
From : AKAcastor
Date : Mon Jun 10 2024 11:34 am

 AK> Is MSGTOSS part of Opus or is it another utility that works with it?
 AK> Interesting to hear what people actually used, thanks for sharing.

 F> I was mixing up talking about RBBS-PC and Opus in the same set of emails.
 F> MSGTOSS was a 3rd party echomail tosser for RBBS-PC.  I 
 F> think it supported *.MSG format too, so I suppose you 
 F> could use it with Opus if you wanted to.

Ah OK!  I appreciate the RBBS-PC info, interesting to learn about after hearing the name years ago but never seeing it myself.

 F> Opus could work with a frontend mailer, and many ran it 
 F> that way, but it has its own decently capable mailer as 
 F> well.  I found it less featureful than I preferred and 
 F> ran FrontDoor or BinkleyTerm instead, but my NC ran on 
 F> just Opus for many years.

Oh, I don't think I realized Opus had its own mailer, but I am not sure how I would have thought that it didn't - Wynn created some of the protocols used, of course he was implementing them!

The local Opus board ran FrontDoor, so I have always kind of associated them in my mind.

 AK> OK, sounds like if one were to setup an Opus 1.79 
 AK> system that really would
 AK> be a good representation of Opus as a whole?

 F> I think so.  Wynn passed on a few years ago, so he's not 
 F> around to disagree with me.

I never got to chat with Wynn, but with Opus being a formative part of my BBS experience and seeing him in the BBS Documentary and reading a bit of his writing, it feels like I knew him in a way, a little bit.

There's a large photo album that was shared online by Rik Wallin (Wynn's husband) a few years ago: 
https://x.com/RikWallin/status/1112533997442289665

Link directly to the photo album: (very long link)
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPUNB6_adSd9urr_IlP5yECikG4t_ff_IzKCsGPo2t-1ddwC5YoqT249XkKHnCNDw?pli=1&key=WTlFcVVZcmhIdWFLbjdrbFlMOUtmM2MtTkRDaXNn

There's some photos of Wynn and Rik beside some computer equipment and server racks labeled DIVANET - looks like a Windows 95 interface on the computer screen, maybe an early ISP?  I didn't spot any photos clearly linked to Opus, but there's a huge number of photos and I just scrolled through.  The photo album feels like a very personal look into Wynn's life.


Chris/akacastor


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