Subj : Looking forward to it
To   : Brian Wood
From : Richard Webb
Date : Wed Mar 23 2011 10:58 pm

HI Brian,

On Wed 2039-Mar-23 16:48, Brian Wood (1:116/903) wrote to Richard Webb:

 > ymmv. The binkley docs are fairly good, make sure you've
 > got them. THe reference document bt-ref.txt is pretty
 > comprehensive, and bt-user.txt gives some good basics and

BW> Well, I had v2.60 but I upgraded because Danny is runnning the XE
BW> version and the docs are kind of scattered but I think I got it set
BW> up pretty fair.  It dials and does events like it should.  I never
BW> used binkley before I was a punk on FD it was pretty easy setup, but
BW> it looks like they crippled FrontDoor pretty bad in the later
BW> versions.

ONly set up fd to help another guy get going with fido back
in the day, and used it myself from my point to test before
I helped him get it going.
still some fd users could tell you quite a bit about later
versions.  My uplink is fd conversant.

 > found out it did some strange things with mail bundles, so
 > disabled it here. WAs just snooping through the nodelist and

BW> Man it's an old 160meg WD it has to have some kind of cache, I tried
BW> norton and might try the old hyperdisk I found it online.  I'm using
BW> DV too so it's all buggered up.

YEah this is a 133 mhz and even with that might benefit from some caching, but 
I've just learned to put up with it
without it.

 > BW> I'm only up for modem midnight to 8AM EDT because I
 > BW> heard there are less sunspots at night.
 > <rotfl> YOu can't be serious are you?

BW> Did you not hear about the alignment of Elenin or Nibiru or whatever
BW> the dark star thing and all the solar flares and the supermoon? 
BW> Well it's pretty complicaed but I think the mailer is working
BW> anyway.

I'm more inclined to think of sunspots aas friendly, being a radio op, but big 
ones can do stuff like an emp that aren't
nice, but that's another thread entirely <grin>.



Regards,
           Richard
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