Subj : Re: Queen City BBS Power Issues
To   : TheNerd
From : Gamgee
Date : Thu Aug 08 2024 11:57 am

-=> TheNerd wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga> Well, it's not so much that.  You could easily prevent the issue by
 Ga> simply having the equipment on a UPS.  Because it's a "hobby" makes it
 Ga> not important enough for a $75 UPS?

 Th> Really?   Of course it isn't important enough for a UPS.  Good lord
 Th> man, people priorities should not land with the BBS being #1.

Who said anything about it being a #1 priority?  Those are your words.

It's important enough to me simply to prevent hardware damage or 
software corruption due to a power outage.  It that isn't important to 
you, that's fine.  Not sure why you're so offended.

 Th> Mine also doesn't sit on a UPS.  If it goes down..  its down..  
 Th> this isn't an ISP with thousands of clients PAYING for service, its a
 Th> toy.

Yours may be a toy.  Some BBS operators (like me), who are 
hubs/coordinators for FTN message networks, *DO* have other systems 
relying on a stable uplink.  Are they PAYING?  No.  Can/should they have 
an expectation of reliability upstream?  Yes.

 Th> At some point I may get a UPS but I'm not going to prioritize
 Th> one and neither should the other guy..

There's that "prioritize" thing again, which nobody but you has said 
anything about.  Just try to understand that not everybody uses this 
hobby the exact same way that you might.  Putting a UPS on a computer 
system, whether it's a BBS or just another home computer, is not some 
"extreme" kind of thing.  It's normal, to most folks.



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