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   -=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Sean Dennis <=-   
      
    AT> You started around 1983 - but at that time, was there Fidonet? Or was   
    AT> there even a decent message base system around? I guess Telegard was ok   
    AT> for messaging but I just couldn't learn to deal with WC! or PCBoards.   
    AT> They were for file leeching only!   
      
   Fidonet didn't exist yet.  Nearly all BBSes were islands unto   
   themselves.  I'm sure there were rudimentary message networks then but I   
   didn't know about them.   
      
    AT> I think early versions of Telegard didn't have an option to "clear   
    AT> screen between messages," and that was and still is a very desirable   
    AT> option for me.   
      
      
   While Tim Strike did a lot for Telegard, he made bizarre choices also,   
   such as not supporting *.MSG (SDM) message bases and not ever fixing   
   several issues that he knew about because of his "principles".  I once   
   contacted him about purchasing TG's source code and he gave me a huge   
   laundry list of excuses, not reasons, of why he couldn't do that.  He   
   didn't want to admit that as soon as he graduated college and started   
   making money, he couldn't care less about the BBS scene.   
      
      
   That's why I stopped using Telegard though I -really- loved it and many   
   of its features.  I switched to Maximus which admittedly is not the   
   easiest BBS in the world to set up and configure but once it's running,   
   it's incredibly stable.  Like I said earlier, I've used a lot of BBS   
   software but now with my poor health, I just don't have the energy or   
   desire to learn something new.   
      
   I hope to keep running a BBS for a while longer unless something   
   changes.  I have thought about, when I can, buying a small motorhome and   
   travelling around the US full-time.  If that happened, I'd probably shut   
   the BBS down and give my FTN network to someone else to run.  I'd still   
   keep in touch with offline mail though; even after all of these years,   
   QWK still works for me.   
      
   Later,   
   Sean   
      
   ... Forty isn't considered old if you're a tree.   
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