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    From Daniel Path@2:371/52 to All on Sun Mar 7 09:16:00 2021
    Hello All.

    I try to join the nets from Gert Andersen since weeks, but there is always some problems in his systems configuration, and he barely answers my messages. and if he answers i can hardly understand what he wants.
    But these systems seems to be a big mess, so do you think is it worth to
    join ? are there any messages on those networks or just bots posting ?

    Virnet for example seems to be a big mess in the nodelist. Hungary is
    still in there, but the boards are not working since 20+ years. even i
    have my nodenumber in the nodelist, but now Gert gave me a new nodenumber.

    thanks,
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    Daniel

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Daniel Path on Sun Mar 7 06:04:04 2021
    Re: virnet/linuxnet/stnet
    By: Daniel Path to All on Sun Mar 07 2021 09:16:01

    I try to join the nets from Gert Andersen since weeks, but there is
    always some problems in his systems configuration, and he barely
    answers my messages. and if he answers i can hardly understand what
    he wants. But these systems seems to be a big mess, so do you think
    is it worth to join?

    quite simply, absolutely not... there's nothing there any more... most all of those networks were sundowned by their original maintainers because traffic simply disappeared as the internet became more and more used by the
    users and operators of the systems carrying the traffic... nothing has been preserved and too much has been lost... it just is not worth the effort...


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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Daniel Path on Tue Mar 9 22:51:00 2021
    Daniel,

    I try to join the nets from Gert Andersen since weeks, but there is always some problems in his systems configuration, and he barely
    answers my messages. and if he answers i can hardly understand what he wants. But these systems seems to be a big mess, so do you think is it worth to join ? are there any messages on those networks or just bots posting ?

    I was connecting to Gert's BBS to send out packets, but I didn't see a
    single packet come back in several weeks. It was as if I was doing the
    only posting...so for now, I removed all his networks from my system.

    I also recently had GatorNet dropped into my lap. I had told Kris Jones
    that I wouldn't mind taking it over, but I'd need pointers on getting
    things set up, as I had never run a network before.

    Unfortunately, that help NEVER came. I found out second hand that Kris' server died, and he felt with "no traffic" (apparently only my autoposts
    were going in), plus other things in his life, he decided to "pull the
    plug". So, with what I have, I'm basically redoing GatorNet from scratch.
    With other things outside the BBS, I'm working to get it back up, but I'm
    not in a big hurry to do it.

    Daryl

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