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|    Jas Hud to Sean Dennis    |
|    Re: BBS Software Timeout Values    |
|    14 Apr 23 06:26:10    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 11248.bbs_carn@1:103/705 289e9d7f       REPLY: 1:18/200@fidonet 63c32fc2       PID: Synchronet 3.19b-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan 2 2022 MSC 1928       TID: SBBSecho 3.20-Linux master/89f12cc2c Apr 13 2023 GCC 12.2.0       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: ASCII 1        To: Sean Dennis        Re: Re: BBS Software Timeout Values        By: Sean Dennis to Jas Hud on Wed Apr 12 2023 06:28 pm               > -=> Jas Hud wrote to Sean Dennis <=-        >        > JH> he used a bad example. what it was, was the boards all had their data        > JH> files linked. so same doorgames, msg areas, user files, etc.        >        > To me that is not anything individulistic but more of a hivemind.              well it's something that wasn't very well thought out.       why have all these bbses when the datafiles are all linked?       why not have one?              i'm sure it started as 'hey we can get more users in our doorgames and people       don't have to setup msg echos'.       --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       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: 218/820 840 850 860 880 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 206       SEEN-BY: 229/275 307 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664 700 266/512       SEEN-BY: 280/464 282/1038 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/280 712/848       PATH: 103/705 218/700 229/426           |
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