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|    Jas Hud to Sean Dennis    |
|    Re: BBS Software Timeout Values    |
|    10 Apr 23 06:30:56    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 11195.bbs_carn@1:103/705 28997dc2       REPLY: 1:18/200@fidonet 63c32ec0       PID: Synchronet 3.19b-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan 2 2022 MSC 1928       TID: SBBSecho 3.20-Linux master/f4dcbf61d Apr 5 2023 GCC 12.2.0       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: ASCII 1        To: Sean Dennis        Re: Re: BBS Software Timeout Values        By: Sean Dennis to Kurt Weiske on Sun Apr 09 2023 08:27 pm               > -=> Kurt Weiske wrote to Dennis Scott <=-        >        > KW> Sysops freaked out about sharing user info, but I liked the        > KW> telegram-like feel of it. Messaging had gone from multiple day        > KW> round-trips with dial-up star/backbone systems to real-time.        >        > Why not just use Telegram and leave the middleman out of it?              he used a bad example. what it was, was the boards all had their data files       linked. so same doorgames, msg areas, user files, etc.       --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 123/131 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 129/305 153/757 7715 154/10 203/0 218/700 221/0 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 111 112 113 206 275 307 317 400 424 426 428 452 470       SEEN-BY: 229/550 664 700 240/1120 5832 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/267 280 281 412 418 509 712/848       PATH: 103/705 280/464 633/280 229/426           |
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