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   Hello Vincent,   
      
   02 May 23 17:01, you wrote to All:   
      
    VC> Right well no one has expressed an interest in taking over the Elist   
    VC> service along with the Pi it is running on.   
      
    VC> To remind every one I will be 76 as of June 23 and my health could be   
    VC> better.   
      
    VC> Historically, for the previous two Elist maintainers etc, on their   
    VC> death the service died as well as their next of kin had no usage of   
    VC> the service or any other within fido land etc so could not be   
    VC> contacted any way.   
      
    VC> So this caused someone else to program a solution that the previous   
    VC> elist keeper had in fact done. What a waste of effort.   
      
    VC> I had hoped that by moving the entire operation on to a Raspberry Pi   
    VC> which is low power system someone (a lot younger) might have been   
    VC> interested in taking it over.   
      
    VC> I having been running back ups of the running system on the Pi to my   
    VC> primary system and in turn creating an archive of it so at least all   
    VC> the elements are together on a JIC (Just in case basis). Again I have   
    VC> not seen anyone grabbing it.   
      
    VC> So I may well transfer the service back to my primary system as a   
    VC> independent bbs system, if nothing else it will save me 2.5Kw   
    VC> electricity bill per day which in money terms works out at the moment   
    VC> as 0.35 pounds per day - no not a lot.   
      
    VC> IF any one might be interested in taking this service over, hopefully   
    VC> younger than myself please get in touch. You can use the Pi as a   
    VC> complete system or run it side by side of you existing bbs system if   
    VC> you run Linux as it uses mbse as the bbs system and the elist software   
    VC> is designed to use the bbs mailer and other services to run which make   
    VC> it fairly automated - any bugs allowed for.   
      
    VC> I will be bundling up the source code for Elist into an archive along   
    VC> with a manual and other documentation for historic value may   
    VC> be. Remember the elist system also looks after the BACKBONE.NA and   
    VC> BACKBONE.RPT files where the former is usable with you file manager as   
    VC> a list of all echos available in Fidonet. It does not hold any other   
    VC> nets as one one has requested such - remember the .NA file does not   
    VC> support the network name for each echo and any change to it would   
    VC> require BBS file manager software to be modified which is yet another   
    VC> issue.   
      
    VC> No, I am not intending to get very unwell or to die any time soon, but   
    VC> I have to start allowing for such.   
      
   why don't you put it on github or archive.org ?   
      
   Regards,   
   --   
   dp   
      
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