"Netsurge" wrote in message
news:4B4EBCC7.13.scibscen@bbs.diskshop.ca...
> To: Desireless
> $ Desireless mentioned . .
> %
>> Well, until recently it was pretty well neglected - but I got myself a
>> new
>> A1200 keyboard (Amigakit rules)
>> and no longer have to search for words without an R in them lol. Just a
>> few
>> days ago I tidied things up a fair bit
>> by cron'ing a daily backup of the BBS, time sync with NTP server - plus a
>> few bits and pieces
>> on the BBS itself. I hope to do more, perhaps even getting a larger drive
>> and filling the BBS with
>> files, like the oldschool /X boards.
>>
>> Quite a while ago I did put together my BBS (stripped down, of course,
>> user.data etc) into a 4mb zip file -
>> almost-ready to run in WinUAE. I can't for the life of me find the second
>> author of /X (Joseph Hodge)
>> and a fair few people are asking for the software. Textfiles has a few
>> copies, but nothing you can easily
>> setup - so I'm thinking of putting my files on our main /X webpage. I
>> dunno
>> it's all illegal. I wish Joseph would
>> surface for five minutes for a chat.
>
> I hear ya. You know what they say, it's easy to beg for forgiveness than
> ask
> for permision. Put it up man.
> Do you have any message net's setup? BinkD for Amiga run's somewhat
> stable
> and CrashMail's key is in the wild. I run a somewhat underground message
> network called SciNet (http://hysteriabbs.com/scinet) might be something
> ur
> users would be interested in.
I'll get that AmiExpress up on the site over the weekend. As for message
net's -
I never understood that in the past, you mean Fidonet? Funnily enough, I was
checking out such possibilities a couple of weeks ago, so yeah I'm
interested -
depends on the load it puts on the Amiga. I'm 6mb fast, 2mb chip - I'll
study the
/X guide soon and see what it says.
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