Just a sample of the Echomail archive
Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.
|    BBS_CARNIVAL    |    Your BBS software rules and others suck    |    5,461 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 3,617 of 5,461    |
|    Gaylen Hintz to mark lewis    |
|    Irex and Argue    |
|    29 May 19 17:25:32    |
      CHRS: CP437 2       MSGID: 1:18/200@fidonet 56308f02       PID: MBSE-BBS 1.0.7.12 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)       TZUTC: -0400       TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.7.12 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)       -=> mark lewis spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-               ml> the main thing on linux systems was that DNS lookup stuff changed and        ml> IREX did not come out with an update to fix that... as a result, IREX               ah yes, that would create problems for Irex users and connections with those        linux systems.               ml> on *nix cannot perform DNS lookups on today's *nix systems... that made        ml> it a lot harder for operators because they had to manually look up a        ml> node's domain in the DNS and put the IP number in the IREX record for        ml> that node... when the IP changes, they have to dance that dance        ml> again...               bummer! Maybe I got out at the right time. :) Well to be honest I was       running Mystic the last year of two that I actually had a board.                     ... A woman drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her.       --- MultiMail/Win32        * Origin: Outpost BBS * Limestone, TN, USA (1:18/200)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 18/200 226/17 229/200 354 426 452 1014 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 400 280/464 317/3 322/757 342/200 393/68 633/280       PATH: 18/200 229/426           |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca