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  • Re: Changes in echo rules

    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Daryl Stout on Wed Feb 23 15:32:47 2022
    Daryl Stout wrote to Daniel Path <=-

    frontend (I ran BGFAX at the back end), and InterEcho for

    B.J. Gulliot, the author of BGFAX, is still alive and well. He's a member
    of my BBSing 2.0 Facebook group. Dale Barnse is still developing InterMail and is a current member of Fidonet.

    -- Sean

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to Mike Powell on Wed Feb 23 09:11:00 2022
    Mike,

    Not sure about Daryl's, but mine ran GT Power BBS software. It had its own proprietary network mailer/tosser which was only compatable with networks built on its topology. One thing it had going for it was that all messages entered into an echo were routed to the
    sponsor's/moderator's system first.
    Made it much easier to moderate echos! :)

    I ran GT Power from 1992 to 2005, while it was still under dial-up only.
    For the same reasons you noted, I preferred the way GT tossed messages. If
    I knew how to create a command shell, I'd do one for Synchronet.

    Daryl

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  • From Daniel Path@2:371/52 to Mike Powell on Thu Feb 24 20:30:01 2022
    Hello Mike,

    22 Feb 22 16:41, you wrote to me:

    what bbs (mailer, tosser, etc) did you run on your XT ?

    Not sure about Daryl's, but mine ran GT Power BBS software. It had
    its own proprietary network mailer/tosser which was only compatable
    with networks built on its topology. One thing it had going for it
    was that all messages entered into an echo were routed to the sponsor's/moderator's system first. Made it much easier to moderate
    echos! :)

    My XT had an internal 2400 baud modem. For the longest time, I could
    only get it to work at 1200 on outgoing calls. Finally figured out
    how to set it up properly to get full use out of it.

    I also tried once to put an upgraded 8-bit serial card in it so I
    could use a 16550 UART and a faster modem. Did not work as well as I expected. That eventually lead me to my third PC, an 80386DX-40. I
    loved that machine!

    I still have it somewhere, too, but I think the power supply on it
    stopped working.

    and what was the setup for the 386? same bbs software?

    Regards,
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    dp

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to DANIEL PATH on Thu Feb 24 15:45:00 2022
    and what was the setup for the 386? same bbs software?

    I ran the same BBS software but, on the 386, it ran under Desqview. Also
    had a 14.4 and, latter, 33.6, modem instead of the 2400. :)

    Mike


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  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to Sean Dennis on Thu Feb 24 10:34:00 2022
    Sean,

    B.J. Gulliot, the author of BGFAX, is still alive and well. He's a
    member of my BBSing 2.0 Facebook group. Dale Barnes is still
    developing InterMail and is a current member of Fidonet.

    B.J. is also an amateur radio operator...I'm not sure of Dale Barnes.
    But I was very happy with both products.

    ... There are lots of good $1.99 burgers but they run $8.99 these days.

    Just like the song "Lord, Mister Ford" by Jerry Reed. One of the lines
    notes "Well, I figured it up, and over a period of time, this $4000 car
    of mine cost $14,000 and 99 cents". <G>

    Daryl

    ... You can't force it to rain by waxing your car.
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  • From Brian Klauss@1:104/116 to Daryl Stout on Fri Feb 25 14:33:08 2022
    Re: Re: Changes in echo rules
    By: Daryl Stout to Mike Powell on Wed Feb 23 2022 09:11 am

    I ran GT Power from 1992 to 2005, while it was still under dial-up only. For the same reasons you noted, I preferred the way GT tossed messages. If
    I knew how to create a command shell, I'd do one for Synchronet.

    Interesting. There was a MajorBBS system called GT Power BBS out of Southern California back in the early to mid-90s. If I were to guess, it wasn't yours.

    Brian Klauss <-> Dream Master
    Caught in a Dream | caughtinadream.com a Synchronet BBS
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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to BRIAN KLAUSS on Sat Feb 26 10:34:00 2022
    I ran GT Power from 1992 to 2005, while it was still under dial-up only. For the same reasons you noted, I preferred the way GT tossed messages. If I knew how to create a command shell, I'd do one for Synchronet.

    Interesting. There was a MajorBBS system called GT Power BBS out of Southern lifornia back in the early to mid-90s. If I were to guess, it wasn't yours.

    GT Power was the actual name of the software. Interesting that someone
    used the name for a BBS running different software. :) My other BBS,
    Moe's Tavern, still runs GT Power here on port 27 and on dial-up.

    Mike


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