TID: PX/Win v7.0 PX36-1252M   
   MSGID: 954:895/1 6e5f5e5c   
   TZUTC: -0400   
   On 7/22/2023 10:25 AM, Ewing wrote to All:   
      
   -> Hi All,   
   ->    
   -> TLDR; Mortal BBS (954:895/29) is now on HobbyNet!   
   ->    
   -> As of today, Mortal BBS here in the beautiful Blue Mountains in Australia is   
   -> connected to HobbyNet (954:895/29) and I wanted to send a quick hello to   
   -> everyone.   
   ->    
   -> I originally started the BBS in 1996 as a 12 year old (with a very   
   -> understanding mother who wasn't too bothered by 3 extra phone lines being   
   -> installed at home) using RemoteAccess. I always wanted to use Wildcat! but   
   -> couldn't afford it back then so had to make do with what I could.   
   ->    
   -> The BBS took a break from 2005 to 2011 when I moved cities at which point I   
   -> resurrected it using Synchronet.   
   ->    
   -> It then had another break from 2014-2021 but was never really stable on the   
   old   
   -> operating system it was running on so when it crashed in February this year   
   I   
   -> left it offline for a few months.   
   ->    
   -> But that's all changed now. Mortal BBS has been rebuilt with the only thing   
   -> that was kept being the user base. Message networks and file areas have been   
   -> imported from scratch, I've dug out my old DOOR registrations and   
   resurrected   
   -> those, and modified a lot of the Synchronet stock menus to suit my own   
   -> structure.   
   ->    
   -> The BBS is still (as always) a work in progress but it's nice to be here!   
   ->    
   -> -Shaun   
      
   Welcome Shaun!   
      
   I purchased the DOS version in the late 1980's and then the Winserver version   
   even    
   before it was written.  I got it a half the cost because they hadn't developed   
   it yet.   
      
   I immediately started the HobbyNet network because I was intrigued with   
   Prodigy and    
   wanted to create my own version of it for myself.  I lived in the Fort   
   Lauderdale area at    
   the time and was networked to about 10 nodes ranging south into Miami and   
   north into    
   Palm Beach counties.   
      
   So much easier to network now with the advent of the internet than it was via   
   modem.     
   I actually considered myself as an ISP because I had a dedicated phone line to   
   a local    
   provider.  I was able to share my internet connection over my other 3 lines   
   for my dial-   
   up customers, but it was of course very slow:)   
      
   Anyway, happy to have you here.   
      
   Mike Dippel   
       
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