Subj : Re: Housekeeping
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Commodore Clifford
Date : Wed Apr 26 2023 09:24 pm

On 26 Apr 23  07:04:00 poindexter FORTRAN wrote...

PF> -=> Commodore Clifford wrote to Thom Miller <=- 
PF> 
PF>  CC> This is actually the #1 reason I don't call "Modern" PC based
PF>  CC> BBS's. Graffiti ANSI screens that go on forever and the struggle
PF>  CC> to find an actual active conversation. 
PF> 
PF> I had *7* ANSI screens on my BBS, reduced them down to a single
PF> screen chosen at random. It was a nice exercise to write a
PF> randomizer, after years of not coding.
PF> 
PF>  (I was a computer science major in college, but I got better...)
PF> 
PF> 
PF> 
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PF> power. (21:4/122) 

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

I have a few myself... all Star Trek themed of course.  And I also only
show one... but what I was trying to get at... mine are only 20 lines or
so long... not 300 or so.... :)  Some of them just seem to go on and on
and on.

Sure, sometimes you can ^c them, but it's just.... why?

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