Hi All,

Unfortunately, it appears that the VM I used for my BBS was corrupted and
can't be recovered. To make matters worse, it looks like my backups were not working properly and all I've got are some really old ones that are too far back to be useful.

Rather than trying to rebuild from scratch, I've decided to shutter the BBS and shift my focus and time to some other personal things. It was a great experience being a SysOp again and I hope to still be around in the message areas via other boards. Thanks again to everyone who helped me get setup with Mystic!

Cheers,
Mike (aka lemonlime from the Stellar Darkness BBS)

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Re: BBS shutdown
By: lemonlime to All on Tue Jan 07 2020 05:08 am

Rather than trying to rebuild from scratch, I've decided to shutter the BBS and shift my focus and time to some other personal things. It was a great experience being a SysOp again and I hope to still be around in the message areas via other boards. Thanks again to everyone who helped me get setup with Mystic!

Sorry to hear that. Hope to still see you around the boards!

Grease
darkmatt.synchro.net


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On 07 Jan 2020, lemonlime said the following...

Rather than trying to rebuild from scratch, I've decided to shutter the BBS and shift my focus and time to some other personal things. It was a great experience being a SysOp again and I hope to still be around in
the message areas via other boards. Thanks again to everyone who helped
me get setup with Mystic!

Cheers,
Mike (aka lemonlime from the Stellar Darkness BBS)

Sorry to hear this Mike, good luck to you..

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lemonlime wrote to All <=-

Rather than trying to rebuild from scratch, I've decided to shutter the BBS and shift my focus and time to some other personal things. It was a great experience being a SysOp again and I hope to still be around in
the message areas via other boards. Thanks again to everyone who helped
me get setup with Mystic!

Sorry to hear that, but you are always welcome to participate from here, or
my other board.

Mike


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Hello lemonlime!

On 07 Jan 2020, lemonlime said the following...

Rather than trying to rebuild from scratch, I've decided to shutter the BBS and shift my focus and time to some other personal things. It was a

Sorry to hear that, but wishing you all the best!

Take care,

Best regards
Zip

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On 07 Jan 2020 at 05:08a, lemonlime pondered and said...

Rather than trying to rebuild from scratch, I've decided to shutter the BBS and shift my focus and time to some other personal things. It was a great experience being a SysOp again and I hope to still be around in
the message areas via other boards. Thanks again to everyone who helped
me get setup with Mystic!

Cheers,
Mike (aka lemonlime from the Stellar Darkness BBS)

Mike, you'll be missed, If you're about via another BBS connected to fsxNet
do pop in and say Hi... I hope the future treats you kindly and thanks for taking part :)

Best, Paul

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Avon wrote to lemonlime <=-

Mike, you'll be missed, If you're about via another BBS connected to fsxNet do pop in and say Hi... I hope the future treats you kindly and thanks for taking part :)

I hope that by the time I finally hang up my sysop hat there are still BBSes around. I'd like to finish off my BBS experience the same way I started - as
a caller whose only worry wasn't nodelist updates, or corrupted message
bases, or failing hard drives - just busy signals. And no busies now!


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On 08 Jan 2020 at 06:52a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

I hope that by the time I finally hang up my sysop hat there are still BBSes around. I'd like to finish off my BBS experience the same way I started - as a caller whose only worry wasn't nodelist updates, or corrupted message bases, or failing hard drives - just busy signals. And no busies now!

:) Nice...

Yeah for me I think I'll remain a sysop up until the end and when that time comes I hope I am remembered by the online communities I was part of...

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lemonlime wrote to All <=-

Hi All,

Unfortunately, it appears that the VM I used for my BBS was corrupted
and can't be recovered. To make matters worse, it looks like my backups were not working properly and all I've got are some really old ones
that are too far back to be useful.

Oh man - that's GOT to be a hard thing to come back from...

Rather than trying to rebuild from scratch, I've decided to shutter the BBS and shift my focus and time to some other personal things. It was a great experience being a SysOp again and I hope to still be around in
the message areas via other boards. Thanks again to everyone who helped
me get setup with Mystic!

I'm not a sysop, but I *HAVE* felt the frustration of hours and hundreds of hours of effort being put into something just fall apart... I hope that the PROCESS though was the most enjoyable part, and that this won't get you
down. Hopefully you can look and see and then say, "yes, it was worth it,
but now there are other things I want to do."



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