On Mon Jan-09-2017 12:59, Ward Dossche (2:292/854) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
   RN> Even though   
   RN> most of the naysaying, anti D'Bridge troublemakers have faded into the   
   RN> past, there are still a few around who want to cause trouble for 2   
   RN> reasons.  1) they can, and 2) they don't have an inkling of what D'Bridge   
   RN> is about.   
      
    WD> I find this a perfectly valid analyses.   
      
   Thanks.   
      
    WD> I think I got my license KEE in 1988 ... Eewwhhhh ... I'm in my    
    WD> 29th DB-year.  Back in those days there was a pre-configured    
    WD> setting that made a rescan the first time someone linked-in to an    
    WD> echo but due to some bug it also mirrored the complete content of    
    WD> that or these echo[es] back up the path with a fresh header and    
    WD> everything.   
      
   That wasn't DB130, was it?  That's the version I began with.   
      
    WD> So you knew a new D'Bridge-customer had popped-up when massive   
    WD> rescans of echoes were posted. This could be avoided and people   
    WD> with a brain were not affected.     
      
   (-:   
      
    WD> In those days the usage of D'BROKE or D'BUG became fashionable. The   
    WD> problem was fixed, the myth persisted, especially among    
    WD> Frontdoor-users. JoHo had assembled a fanclub and I remember a   
    WD> Eurocon where he had a group of followers that were on his trail   
    WD> all the time as if he were a guru of some kind. So when he    
    WD> mentioned D'BUG, they all started doing that. He stopped doing that   
    WD> when I had a private talk with him July 2nd 1995.   
      
   Hero worship.  I remember a bunch of guys (okay, maybe a few) telling Chris   
   that they could break his security and make their own kee, but no one that I   
   know of succeeded.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+ W10 (1607)   
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