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|    Kurt Weiske to Nick Andre    |
|    Re: BBS Software Timeout Values    |
|    10 Apr 23 07:33:00    |
      TZUTC: -0700       MSGID: 693.bbscarni@1:218/700 289ad035       REPLY: 1:229/426 CEAECFE3       PID: Synchronet 3.20a-Win32 master/f5d4c9bdb Mar 30 2023 MSC 1929       TID: SBBSecho 3.20-Win32 master/f5d4c9bdb Mar 30 2023 MSC 1929       BBSID: REALITY       CHRS: ASCII 1       -=> Nick Andre wrote to Sean Dennis <=-               NA> This is true.. If you bought either MBBS or TBBS it was an investment        NA> that you wanted recouped. I never once saw a totally "free" one of        NA> those systems until much later, when the novelty wore off.              If I recall, there were some other paid packages - Searchlight, Wildcat       and others were expensive (to me), but not in the range of the       multi-line BBSes. Those seemed more geared to the well-off sysop rather       than the sysop looking to run a business off of his/her BBS.                            ... UNPRISON YOUR THINK RHINO       --- MultiMail/Win 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: 123/131 129/305 153/7715 214/22 218/0 1 215 501 700 720 810       SEEN-BY: 218/820 840 850 860 880 226/30 227/114 229/110 111 112 113       SEEN-BY: 229/206 275 307 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664 700 266/512       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58       SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848       PATH: 218/700 229/426           |
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