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|    Dan Clough to Nick Andre    |
|    Re: BBS'ing    |
|    03 Jun 22 18:32:00    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 1223.fido_bbscarni@1:123/115 26ffd750       REPLY: 1:229/426 F087D92E       PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Linux master/ddd4d10b2 May 21 2022 GCC 11.2.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.15-Linux master/ddd4d10b2 May 21 2022 GCC 11.2.0       BBSID: PALANT       CHRS: ASCII 1       -=> Nick Andre wrote to Dan Clough <=-               DC> I lived in the Chicago-land area back then, so there were quite a few        DC> boards around. I'd say PCB was certainly not the majority of them, but        DC> the ones that were seemed much "nicer" than most of the rest. Maybe        DC> "more professional" looking is the right term. So that's what I ran        DC> then, and liked it a lot. Also registered InterMail and InterEcho for        DC> mail stuff, worked well also. As I recall the USRobotics modem site ran        DC> PCB back then. :-)               NA> I keep hearing from many people that Chicago had *the* scene,        NA> possibly the biggest in the country at one time. Toronto had a        NA> big one but nothing compared to some other American cities.              Yes, it was pretty active, and Net 115 at the time was fairly big. I        was running the BBS and Fido from 93-96. Really a great time.               NA> Lol wow, Dale Barnes the current IM/IE author I think lives in        NA> Chicago... somewhere in IL anyhow.              The nodelist shows him in both Chicago and Houston, which seems a little        strange. As far as I know, IM/IE is not under further development.                     ... Is fire supposed to shoot out of it like that!?       === MultiMail/Linux v0.52       --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux        * Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (1:123/115)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 15/0 18/0 200 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 114/705       SEEN-BY: 116/116 120/302 340 616 123/0 10 25 115 120 126 131 180 200       SEEN-BY: 123/525 755 124/5016 129/215 305 330 331 135/300 153/250       SEEN-BY: 153/757 7715 154/10 30 40 50 700 203/0 218/700 840 220/70       SEEN-BY: 220/90 221/0 1 6 360 222/2 226/17 18 30 100 227/114 229/110       SEEN-BY: 229/111 112 113 206 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664 700       SEEN-BY: 230/0 240/1120 5832 250/1 5 8 266/512 267/800 275/1000 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 282/1038 292/8125 298/25 299/6 300/4 301/1 305/3       SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/81       SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/280 712/848 1321 770/1 2320/105 2452/250 3634/0       SEEN-BY: 3634/12 15 24 27 50 56 119 4500/1 5020/1042       PATH: 123/115 3634/12 154/10 280/464 221/1 6 218/840 770/1 317/3       PATH: 229/426           |
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