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|    Rob Swindell to Nick Andre    |
|    Re: BBS'ing    |
|    04 Jun 22 14:39:13    |
      TZUTC: -0700       MSGID: 10925.bbs_carn@1:103/705 270131ae       REPLY: 1:229/426 8A8C4EA2       PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Win32 master/d4b5eea9b Jun 1 2022 MSC 1929       TID: SBBSecho 3.15-Linux master/92bcd45eb Jun 1 2022 GCC 8.3.0       COLS: 80       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: CP437 2       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.104        Re: Re: BBS'ing        By: Nick Andre to Andre Robitaille on Fri Jun 03 2022 06:12 pm               > On 03 Jun 22 13:51:13, Andre Robitaille said the following to Nick Andre:        >        > AR> NA> I never really saw any WWIV or even any Tag systems in my area,        > AR> NA> ever.        >        > AR> There were only a few boards in my small town, and mine was WWIV because        > AR> yo could buy the source. My friend had Hermes (WWIV mac clone), and I        > AR> was alwa jealous of the much better configuration system. But having        > AR> access to bette doors and WWIVNet gave me a huge advantage.        >        > I heard the source of WWIV was available, pretty sure thats what influenced        > Renegade and some others. Mark Hoffman I believe still runs Wwivnet? I        > helped him add the INTL kludge to Netmail.              More than "influenced": Renegade, Telegard, TAG and many other BBS programs of       the era are actual hacks/rip-offs of the WWIV v3 Pascal source code.       --         digital man (rob)              Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #45:       IP = Internet Protocol       Norco, CA WX: 76.1øF, 55.0% humidity, 4 mph ESE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs       --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 114/705 120/340       SEEN-BY: 123/120 131 124/5016 129/305 330 331 153/250 757 7715 154/10       SEEN-BY: 203/0 218/700 840 220/70 221/0 1 6 360 226/17 30 100 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 111 112 113 206 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664       SEEN-BY: 229/700 230/0 240/5832 250/5 8 266/512 267/800 280/464 5003       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 292/8125 298/25 301/1 305/3 317/3 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 335/364 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/81 460/58 633/280 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 2452/250 4500/1       PATH: 103/705 280/464 221/1 6 218/840 770/1 317/3 229/426           |
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