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|    Kurt Weiske to Rob Swindell    |
|    Re: BBS'ing    |
|    05 Jun 22 08:35:00    |
      TZUTC: -0700       MSGID: 450.bbscarni@1:218/700 27020654       REPLY: 10925.bbs_carn@1:103/705 270131ae       PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Win32 master/94ea4bf4e May 18 2022 MSC 1929       TID: SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 master/94ea4bf4e May 18 2022 MSC 1929       BBSID: REALITY       CHRS: ASCII 1       -=> Rob Swindell wrote to Nick Andre <=-               RS> More than "influenced": Renegade, Telegard, TAG and many other BBS        RS> programs of the era are actual hacks/rip-offs of the WWIV v3 Pascal        RS> source code.              I recall FORUM-PC being accused of ripping off WWIV, I thought the BBSes you        mentioned all sort of ripped off each other - but I'm sure they all shared        common roots with some other source-available BBS -- like WWIV.                     ... Only a part, not the whole       --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52        * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org | tomorrow's retro tech (1:218/700)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 18/200 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201       SEEN-BY: 120/340 123/131 129/305 330 331 153/7715 214/22 218/0 1 109       SEEN-BY: 218/501 650 700 720 810 840 850 860 870 880 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 111 112 113 206 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664       SEEN-BY: 229/700 266/512 282/1038 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848       PATH: 218/700 229/426           |
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