-=> Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 11-26-14  01:40 <=-   
      
    DS>> I had to do a fresh install of Windows XP. I tried to fix a   
    DS>> corrupted device driver, and crashed the system. When I rebooted, XP   
    DS>> would not let me use it, because "it hadn't been activated", and I was   
    DS>> never given the chance to.   
    NB>>Not nice.   
      
    DS> Then to add to it, I spent all day Tuesday rebuilding message areas   
    DS> in trying to get a new message network online. I think the problem   
    DS> was at the hub system...but, I discovered I had duplicate deals for   
    DS> several echoes, and I had to go through over 500 areas (the original   
    DS> purpose for BBS's was messages), and remove those. I didn't get a   
    DS> chance to eat until after I finished 3 ham radio nets at mid-evening.   
      
   Busy, busy...  I've always seen bbses as primarily for messages, and   
   only secondarily for games and/or files.     
      
    DS> A nightmare and thirst woke me, so I got up to see if maintenance   
    DS> had run...a batchfile glitch had skipped the echomail and netmail part   
    DS> of it, so I had to do that again. Never a dull moment being a Sysop   
    DS> (sigh!).   
      
   Always something else needing to be done... :)   
      
   ttyl         neb   
      
   ... Medicine: the art of amusing the ill while nature heals   
      
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