From: daryl.stout@1:19/33.remove-108y-this

To: POINDEXTER FORTRAN

What wasn't music to my ears was the time I left to go to a training class o PF>of town. The modem hung shortly after I left, and FrontDoor tried in vain to PF>reset the modem, then did it's little morse code SOS, and the batch file PF>restarted. 90 seconds later, SOS and restart... and so on, and so on, for 3 PF>days. My neighbors must have heard it...

That was the BBS having a case of separation anxiety, whenever the
Sysop went away. I know of several Sysops (including myself) who have experienced this. :P

Daryl

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From: daryl.stout@1:19/33.remove-108y-this

To: MORTIFIS

I remember getting a little excited when I heard the modem squeal for an M>incoming call ... I actually had BGFAX as a main front-end then if it was not M>an incoming fax it would pass it off to Front Door and if it was not a FidoNe M>query it would pass it off to the BBS ... I was younger and my brain worked M>better in those days .... though I actually ended marrying one of my callers M>... that's why I have page SysOP turned off now LOL

You and I had a lot in common.

I had BGFAX at the frontend, but then moved it to the back end behind FrontDoor, then InterMail.

I met the woman who became my wife (and Co-Sysop) on a BBS that was
run by the computer science department at the University Of Arkansas at
Little Rock. I got a Bachelor of Arts in Radio/TV/Film there...she got
her Masters Degree in Psychology there (her Bachelor's Degree in
Psychology was obtained from Cornell University). The college and
computer science department are still there...the BBS is long gone. I do
have a bulletin over here of "long gone Arkansas BBS's".

We were friends for 17 1/2 years, and never thought about marriage;
let alone to each other. We hit it off in 2002, got married in 2003; but tragically, I lost her to a heart attack 3 weeks shy of our 4th
anniversary in 2007 (she had a defective aortic heart valve since
birth), and was only 48 when she died. I didn't marry for the first time
until I was 43, but never dreamed that I'd be a widower at 47...and I
never remarried...even at 12 years after her death. With taking care of
the things with my elderly Mom in a nursing home right now, re-marriage
is the least of my worries.

On the BBS, she and I competed in several doorgames, and while she was
a great winner, she sure was a sore loser. <G>

Daryl

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From: mortifis@ALLEYCAT.remove-yfq-this

To: Daryl Stout

I remember getting a little excited when I heard the modem squeal for an M>incoming call ... I actually had BGFAX as a main front-end then if it was not M>an incoming fax it would pass it off to Front Door and if it was not a FidoNe M>query it would pass it off to the BBS ... I was younger and my brain worked M>better in those days .... though I actually ended marrying one of my callers M>... that's why I have page SysOP turned off now LOL

You and I had a lot in common.

I had BGFAX at the frontend, but then moved it to the back end behind FrontDoor, then InterMail.

So sorry to hear about your wife :(

2 wrongs don't make a right, but 3 left turns will get you back on the freeway!

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From: daryl.stout@1:19/33.remove-xjk-this

To: MORTIFIS

So sorry to hear about your wife :(

Thanks...hard to believe it has been almost 12 years since I lost her.

Daryl

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