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- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!eodell
- From: eodell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eugene O'Dell)
- Subject: Re: Re: What is the best BBS?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.111151.19683@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <61995@cup.portal.com> <shudson.08qy@vsbbs.UUCP> <36521@uflor
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 11:11:51 GMT
- Lines: 41
-
- In article <36521@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> jma@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad'
- Adams) writes:
- >Did shudson@vsbbs.UUCP really type:
- >
- >> If you had looked at the manual, you would have found out that ALL CNe
- commands, as well as all text, could be changed simply by editing a file
- Changing 'Pfiles' and 'Gfiles' (Hold-overs from the C64 version), to som
- thing less cryptic to most uses would have taken less than 5 minutes. I h
- ve found CNet to be the most powerful BBS program available for the Amiga
- (Or any other system, for that matter. And it dosn't put one of those lam
- '-Via ' line at the bottom of the message, either.)
- >
- >My congratulations to your implementation of UUCP/Usenet on C-Net. The
- >above is one line of 496 characters, instead of 7 lines. Someone who
- >wanted to respond to only a part of the message (as I wanted) would have
- >to do a bit of work to reformat it properly.
- >
- >As to the tear line, I must be getting senile in my old age, as every bl
- ody
- >message I see in Fidonet from a C-Net board has the line:
- >--- XFido x.x
- >
- >'Nough said.
- >--
- >John Adams - Sysop - Beachside BBS. (Amiga/Cyber/Fido/UUCP) _
- >Internet: jma@cis.ufl.edu John_Adams%lamia.uucp@ufl.edu _ // Amiga
- >Fidonet: 1:3612/57.0 UUCP: uflorida!lamia!John_Adams \X/ Foreve
-
- >Cybernet: 57:2163/57.0 AT&T: 1-904-492-2305 (Pensacola, FL)
-
-
- ALL Fidonet nodes add the -- Fido lines at the end. What he's talking
- about is the --Via DLG Pro line that is added onto Usenet messages.
- What's your point about the formatting of the text? I don't see how
- it follows in this discussion.
-
- --
- --Eugene O'Dell
- Internet Address: EAO430S@VMA.SMSU.EDU "I would give my life to find it,
- eodell@nyx.cs.du.edu I would give it all...
- Bitnet Address: EAO430S@SMSMVMA Catch me if I fall." - R.E.M.
-