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   Message 959 of 1,458   
   Roy Witt to Roger Nelson   
   Nodelist recognition....   
   30 May 13 12:21:43   
   
   Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
   [.FD.]   
      
    RW>> It had it's own quirks that made it obsolete anyway.   
      
    RN> It was obsolete 30 minutes after I tried it.   
      
   If it wasn't for perseverence, it would have been chucked out with the   
   garbage when I first got a copy of it. Eventually, I got it to work and   
   wrote a FD4DUMMIES tutoral, providing sample batch files and a list of   
   software tools needed to make it work. Jack Yates (c1997) asked me for a   
   copy of that tutoral and that was the only way he got FD working.   
      
    RN>   If a mailer can't handle Distinctive Ring, and for me at that   
    RN> period of time it was mandatory, then it is useless.   
      
   Ring distinction or the lack of wasn't my problem with FD...getting it to   
   work at all was the biggest problem.   
      
    RN>   I even got on the case (nicely) of one of the guys who was updating   
    RN> AdeptXBBS, suggesting that if they couldn't get DR to work, they   
    RN> should pull that section from the manual.  I was accused of whining,   
    RN> of course.  (-:   
      
   8^) I got the same treatment from my uplink (he was a big whiner) when I   
   wasn't getting mail from his system, 1:202/900. I finally convinced him   
   that it was his misconfiguration that caused the problem and he finally   
   admitted that he was going through a divorce and had little time to   
   spend tweaking his BBS and that the software upgrade he made to his system   
   wasn't what it was supposed to be. He finally went back to the previous   
   software version and that cured the problem. Meanwhile, Brenda was   
   re-configuring the net hubs and John's 900 hub was the first to go and   
   I got moved to 202/5's net hub, which was probably the best hub I've ever   
   had the pleasure of being linked to.   
      
    RN> So, I deep-sixed Adept.  It was a good idea at the time, but came   
    RN> with a nightmare called GateKeeper.  Another thing about it was I   
    RN> couldn't send to Bill Kirby's The Twin Towers BBS in Austin, but he   
    RN> could send to me and he and I spent many hours on the phone trying to   
    RN> figure that out. I even offered to pay my portion of his LD bill.   
      
   Before I became a node, I used to run a BBS using Wildcat. Had I known at   
   the time that I would eventually be a Fidonet sysop, I wouldn't have   
   chosen Wildcat. I used a net202 BBS to get my Fido fix and it was using   
   Wildcat BBS...had I known how hard it was to implement FD with Wildcat, I   
   would have chosen a different BBS package.   
      
      
            R\%/itt   
      
      
   --- GoldED+/W32 1.1.5-31012   
   --- D'Bridge 3.92   
    * Origin: Lone-Star BBS - San Antonio, Texas - USA (1:387/22)   

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