• Re: qwk networking for J

    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Nick Andre on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 00:13:00
    Total abandonware... I mooched every registered SL file from slbbs.com
    a long time ago.

    Didn't Telegrafix buy the SL source code along with ProBoard's source code? I know PB is now open source ... should ask about SL.

    --Sean


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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to Sean Dennis on Monday, August 24, 2020 22:26:40
    Re: Re: qwk networking for J
    By: Sean Dennis to Nick Andre on Tue Aug 25 2020 12:13 am

    Total abandonware... I mooched every registered SL file from slbbs.com a long time ago.

    Didn't Telegrafix buy the SL source code along with ProBoard's source code? I know PB is now open source ... should ask about SL.

    Pat Clawson bought both TeleGrafix/RIP and then (later) SearchLight/Spinaker. And yeah, looks like ProBoard too:
    http://www.thebbs.org/proboard/plspeaks.htm

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Rob Swindell on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 09:47:00
    Pat Clawson bought both TeleGrafix/RIP and then (later) SearchLight/Spinaker >And yeah, looks like ProBoard too: >http://www.thebbs.org/proboard/plspeaks.htm

    PB is currently open source and is being maintained by Slasher of Slasher
    BBS along with a few other folks.

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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Sean Dennis on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 11:48:36
    On 25 Aug 20 00:13:00, Sean Dennis said the following to Nick Andre:

    Didn't Telegrafix buy the SL source code along with ProBoard's source code? know PB is now open source ... should ask about SL.

    I thought someone at one time tried to get that code from Telegrafix and they wanted an obscene amount of money for it.

    Nick

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Nick Andre on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 16:18:00
    Didn't Telegrafix buy the SL source code along with ProBoard's source >code?
    know PB is now open source ... should ask about SL.

    I thought someone at one time tried to get that code from Telegrafix and the >wanted an obscene amount of money for it.


    For SL? Would not doubt it. As I recall, Clawson was a greedy @#%$%@.

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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Robert Wolfe on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 17:52:50
    On 25 Aug 20 16:18:00, Robert Wolfe said the following to Nick Andre:

    I thought someone at one time tried to get that code from Telegrafix and t >wanted an obscene amount of money for it.


    For SL? Would not doubt it. As I recall, Clawson was a greedy @#%$%@.

    I wrote a series of tiny quick-n-dirty programs to duplicate the Echomail database from D'Bridge to Searchlight and some workarounds for Y2K.

    I was a huge SL fan and was very close to ditching Renegade in favour of it but there are some limitations with the message databases that kept me from doing so. Once I had the code to Renegade there was no reason to switch.

    Nick

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  • From Kostie Muirhead@1:342/17 to Nick Andre on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 16:29:16
    Re: Re: qwk networking for J
    By: Nick Andre to Sean Dennis on Tue Aug 25 2020 11:48 am

    I thought someone at one time tried to get that code from Telegrafix and they wanted an obscene amount of money for it.
    Nick

    I think that was several years ago now, so maybe the tune has changed, but my understanding was that they thought RIP had value to the mobile market (They may not have been wrong if they'd actually decided to, you know, DO anything with it) and hence wanted mega bucks for anything related (searchlight, ripterm/tel, et al).
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  • From Dumas Walker@1:2320/105 to ROBERT WOLFE on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 18:48:00
    Pat Clawson bought both TeleGrafix/RIP and then (later) SearchLight/Spinaker >And yeah, looks like ProBoard too: >http://www.thebbs.org/proboard/plspeaks.htm

    PB is currently open source and is being maintained by Slasher of Slasher
    BBS along with a few other folks.

    Someone was working on an open-source clone of it that they were originally calling PCBoard. They've since changed the name to Legacy/X. Is that the
    one you are thinking of?

    Mike


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  • From Matt Munson@1:218/109 to Robert Wolfe on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 18:21:26
    RE: Re: qwk networking for J
    BY: Robert Wolfe(1:261/20)


    For SL? Would not doubt it. As I recall, Clawson was a greedy @#%$%@.

    Clawson is dead I think.


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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Kostie Muirhead on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 09:40:26
    On 25 Aug 20 16:29:16, Kostie Muirhead said the following to Nick Andre:

    I think that was several years ago now, so maybe the tune has changed, but understanding was that they thought RIP had value to the mobile market (The may not have been wrong if they'd actually decided to, you know, DO anythi with it) and hence wanted mega bucks for anything related (searchlight, ripterm/tel, et al).

    The mobile market? You mean pre-smartphone era stuff like WAP browsing? Yeah RIP could've possibly had something there. I was thinking more of the Spinnaker web server that had direct integration with Searchlight. Spinnaker was buggy as hell but if it was fixed up and *really* worked on seriously it had the potential for something interesting. It was purely database-driven and in a weird way seemed like the precursor to CMS-websites like Wordpress.

    Nick

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Nick Andre on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 10:26:00
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    "We have clearance, Clarence."
    "You can tell me, I'm a doctor."
    "Chump don't want da help, chump don't get da help."

    So on and so forth :)

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Dumas Walker on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 10:28:00
    PB is currently open source and is being maintained by Slasher of Slasher
    BBS along with a few other folks.

    Someone was working on an open-source clone of it that they were originally >calling PCBoard. They've since changed the name to Legacy/X. Is that the >one you are thinking of?


    Nope. Different package.

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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Robert Wolfe on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 13:16:43
    On 26 Aug 20 10:26:00, Robert Wolfe said the following to Nick Andre:

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    "We have clearance, Clarence."
    "You can tell me, I'm a doctor."
    "Chump don't want da help, chump don't get da help."

    So on and so forth :)

    I just want to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.

    Nick

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  • From Mike Miller@1:154/30.1 to Robert Wolfe on Thursday, August 27, 2020 00:49:18
    Hello, Robert Wolfe.
    On 8/25/20 9:47 AM you wrote:

    Pat Clawson bought both TeleGrafix/RIP and then (later)
    SearchLight/Spinaker And yeah, looks like ProBoard too:
    http://www.thebbs.org/proboard/plspeaks.htm
    PB is currently open source and is being maintained by Slasher of
    Slasher BBS along with a few other folks.

    Proboard was the first BBS software I ever ran, since all the popular BBSes in my area also ran it.

    I guess it was really popular in Europe, and a small section of Wisconsin. :)

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Robert Wolfe on Thursday, August 27, 2020 08:02:00
    Robert Wolfe wrote to Nick Andre <=-

    "We have clearance, Clarence."
    "You can tell me, I'm a doctor."
    "Chump don't want da help, chump don't get da help."

    So on and so forth :)

    Airplane is featured on Netflix this month.



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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Nick Andre on Thursday, August 27, 2020 15:43:00
    So on and so forth :)

    I just want to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.

    LOL!

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Mike Miller on Thursday, August 27, 2020 15:44:00
    Proboard was the first BBS software I ever ran, since all the popular BBSes >my area also ran it.

    I guess it was really popular in Europe, and a small section of Wisconsin. :

    So, you are saying it was cheesy software? :P

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Kurt Weiske on Thursday, August 27, 2020 15:45:00
    Airplane is featured on Netflix this month.

    ok, will have to check it out! Thanks for the heads up :)

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  • From Mike Miller@1:154/30.1 to Robert Wolfe on Thursday, August 27, 2020 18:17:27
    Hello, Robert Wolfe.
    On 8/27/20 3:44 PM you wrote:

    Proboard was the first BBS software I ever ran, since all the
    popular BBSes my area also ran it. I guess it was really popular
    in Europe, and a small section of Wisconsin. :
    So, you are saying it was cheesy software? :P
    It was the.... wurst?
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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Mike Miller on Thursday, August 27, 2020 19:17:00
    So, you are saying it was cheesy software? :P
    It was the.... wurst?

    Kinda like German WiFi, right? :)

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Rob Swindell on Friday, August 28, 2020 23:11:00
    Rob,

    Pat Clawson bought both TeleGrafix/RIP and then (later) SearchLight/Spinaker. And yeah, looks like ProBoard too: http://www.thebbs.org/proboard/plspeaks.htm

    I wondered what happened to it. A former local Sysop (also
    a fellow ham radio operator) noted "I thought RIP was what
    you did to a f@r+" <G>. I have a bunch of the Outworld Arts
    ANSI and RIP graphics files over here.

    Daryl

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Kurt Weiske on Friday, August 28, 2020 23:12:00
    Airplane is featured on Netflix this month.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to read the echo. <G>

    Daryl

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Daryl Stout on Saturday, August 29, 2020 09:46:00
    Airplane is featured on Netflix this month.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to read the echo. <G>

    LOL!

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Robert Wolfe on Sunday, August 30, 2020 13:16:00
    Robert,

    Airplane is featured on Netflix this month.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to read the echo. <G>

    LOL!

    When there's an opening like this, I can't resist. <G>

    But, I've been at the other end of that...asking for it. Before
    my wife died 13 1/2 years ago, I said to her that "My head is so
    far up my butt, that I can see my throat!!". Without missing a
    beat...grinning wryly...she said "That's why your eyes are brown!!".
    <ZING!!>.

    Daryl

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:116/17 to Daryl Stout on Monday, August 31, 2020 15:56:26
    Airplane is featured on Netflix this month.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to read the echo. <G>

    Daryl

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    LOL!

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