Subj : The Elist service To : Vincent Coen From : Daniel Path Date : Wed May 03 2023 09:45 am Hello Vincent, 02 May 23 17:01, you wrote to All: VC> Right well no one has expressed an interest in taking over the Elist VC> service along with the Pi it is running on. VC> To remind every one I will be 76 as of June 23 and my health could be VC> better. VC> Historically, for the previous two Elist maintainers etc, on their VC> death the service died as well as their next of kin had no usage of VC> the service or any other within fido land etc so could not be VC> contacted any way. VC> So this caused someone else to program a solution that the previous VC> elist keeper had in fact done. What a waste of effort. VC> I had hoped that by moving the entire operation on to a Raspberry Pi VC> which is low power system someone (a lot younger) might have been VC> interested in taking it over. VC> I having been running back ups of the running system on the Pi to my VC> primary system and in turn creating an archive of it so at least all VC> the elements are together on a JIC (Just in case basis). Again I have VC> not seen anyone grabbing it. VC> So I may well transfer the service back to my primary system as a VC> independent bbs system, if nothing else it will save me 2.5Kw VC> electricity bill per day which in money terms works out at the moment VC> as 0.35 pounds per day - no not a lot. VC> IF any one might be interested in taking this service over, hopefully VC> younger than myself please get in touch. You can use the Pi as a VC> complete system or run it side by side of you existing bbs system if VC> you run Linux as it uses mbse as the bbs system and the elist software VC> is designed to use the bbs mailer and other services to run which make VC> it fairly automated - any bugs allowed for. VC> I will be bundling up the source code for Elist into an archive along VC> with a manual and other documentation for historic value may VC> be. Remember the elist system also looks after the BACKBONE.NA and VC> BACKBONE.RPT files where the former is usable with you file manager as VC> a list of all echos available in Fidonet. It does not hold any other VC> nets as one one has requested such - remember the .NA file does not VC> support the network name for each echo and any change to it would VC> require BBS file manager software to be modified which is yet another VC> issue. VC> No, I am not intending to get very unwell or to die any time soon, but VC> I have to start allowing for such. why don't you put it on github or archive.org ? Regards, -- dp -=>> telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=- .... Uptime: 1d 16h 4m 42s --- GoldED/2 1.1.4.7+EMX * Origin: Roon's BBS - Budapest, HUNGARY (2:371/52) .