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|    Nicholas Boel to All    |
|    Re: BBS Software Recommendations    |
|    23 Nov 24 11:04:20    |
      TZUTC: -0600       MSGID: 2004.bbscarni@1:154/700 2ba748e8       REPLY: 1:229/426 294C9F3D       PID: Synchronet 3.20a-Linux master/277855436 Nov 23 202 GCC 14.2.1       TID: SBBSecho 3.23-Linux master/277855436 Nov 23 2024 03:23 GCC 14.2.1       BBSID: PHARCYDE       CHRS: UTF-8 4       NOTE: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko       20100101Thunderbird/128.4.3       Hello Nick,              On Sat, Nov 23 2024 05:20:58 -0600, you wrote..              > I wish I kept all the hilarious messages from 2002 telling me I was       > going to be "hacked tomorrow" for running XP let alone running on       > port 23.              > Tomorrow never came...              IMO, people that freak out about EOLs are just too ingrained that they        should be paying for and/or upgrading to the latest and greatest when        they're told to do so.              How could you possibly be hacked on port 23, running a BBS, aside from        having some kind of backdoor in the software you're answering with        (which you don't, so it's basically impossible without gaining sysop        access)?              Regards,       Nick              ... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.       --- SBBSecho 3.23-Linux        * Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (1:154/700)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 18/200 102/401 103/1 705 104/119 105/81 106/201 120/302       SEEN-BY: 120/616 124/5016 128/187 129/215 305 153/757 7715 154/10       SEEN-BY: 154/30 50 700 203/0 214/22 218/0 1 215 501 601 700 720 810       SEEN-BY: 218/840 850 860 870 880 930 940 220/20 90 221/0 6 226/18       SEEN-BY: 226/30 44 50 227/114 229/110 114 206 275 300 310 317 400       SEEN-BY: 229/426 428 470 550 664 700 240/1120 5832 266/512 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 5006 282/1038 291/111 292/8125 301/1 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/120 460/58 467/888 633/280       SEEN-BY: 712/848 770/1 902/26 2320/105 3634/12 5020/400 5075/35       PATH: 154/700 10 280/464 103/705 218/700 229/426           |
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