On Wed May-29-2013 09:40, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    RW> Roger Nelson wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    ml>> On Mon, 27 May 2013, Roger Nelson wrote to Bill McGarrity:   
      
    ml>BM>> Right now I'm thinking about using FD and NetSerial. Mark offered   
    ml>BM>> to point me in the right direction.  I already have FD, just need   
    ml>BM>> to get the other from PCMicro.   
      
    ml>RN>> FD is also abandonware, so beware.   
      
    ml>> while FD may be abandonware, it does work properly and has never had   
    ml>> the weird problems that other programs have exhibited...   
      
    RW> It had it's own quirks that made it obsolete anyway.   
      
   It was obsolete 30 minutes after I tried it.  If a mailer can't handle   
   Distinctive Ring, and for me at that period of time it was mandatory, then it   
   is useless.  I even got on the case (nicely) of one of the guys who was   
   updating AdeptXBBS, suggesting that if they couldn't get DR to work, they   
   should pull that section from the manual.  I was accused of whining, of   
   course.  (-:  So, I deep-sixed Adept.  It was a good idea at the time, but   
   came with a nightmare called GateKeeper.  Another thing about it was I   
   couldn't send to Bill Kirby's The Twin Towers BBS in Austin, but he could send   
   to me and he and I spent many hours on the phone trying to figure that out.  I   
   even offered to pay my portion of his LD bill.   
      
    RN> Maybe for you it does/did, but it doesn't do Distinctive Ring, AKA   
    RN> RingMaster.  When I asked for help in the FD echo, you cold hear   
    RN> crickets chirp.  D'Bridge did/does it flawlessly.   
      
    RW> Yeup.   
      
    ml>RN>> Don't know about NetSerial.   
      
    ml>> mike still supports his software...   
      
    RN> I don't know Mike, which also means I don't know who the author of   
    RN> NetSerial is.   
      
    RW> Why, it's Mikey, of course.   
      
   LOL!   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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