Just testing to see if this gets out.

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Re: Testing
By: Dave Perrussel to All on Sat Nov 01 2025 07:35:23

Just testing to see if this gets out.

It escaped all right.
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Hi Dave...

Just testing to see if this gets out.
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It got out and about.

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Just testing to see if this gets out.

It made it to Arkansas.

Daryl

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Hello Daryl!

03 Nov 25 23:48, you wrote to Dave Perrussel:

It made it to Arkansas.

Where is asia ?

no link? ;-)

Dennis


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Re: Re: Testing
By: Daryl Stout to Dave Perrussel on Mon Nov 03 2025 11:48 pm

Just testing to see if this gets out.

It made it to Arkansas.

Daryl

Surprised you're on this echo. Normally this is used by the Net 275 admin
for testing. :)

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It made it to Arkansas.

Where is asia ?

no link? ;-)

Maybe it's like where India was awarded the Gold Medal for
telemarketing. <G>

Daryl

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Surprised you're on this echo. Normally this is used by the Net
275 admin for testing. :)

It was what was in the Echolist that I got...I'll have to remove it.

Daryl

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Re: Re: Testing
By: Daryl Stout to Dave Perrussel on Wed Nov 05 2025 22:31:37

Surprised you're on this echo. Normally this is used by the Net
275 admin for testing. :)

It was what was in the Echolist that I got...I'll have to remove it.

I think Dave was teasing you. ;) This echo is still in the echolist and is Asia Link. There are a person or two that also use it to do some testing, some of which often spawns additional discussions among the participants.

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Re: Re: Testing
By: Mike Powell to Daryl Stout on Thu Nov 06 2025 08:24 am

I think Dave was teasing you. ;) This echo is still in the echolist and is Asia Link. There are a person or two that also use it to do some testing, s of which often spawns additional discussions among the participants.

Carol pretty much just uses this for those connected to her node for Fidonet traffic. Anyone can post here, of course. But it's mostly used by us sysops. :)

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Hello Dave!

** On Saturday 08.11.25 - 21:47, Dave Perrussel wrote to Mike Powell:

Carol pretty much just uses this for those connected to
her node for Fidonet traffic. Anyone can post here, of
course. But it's mostly used by us sysops. :)

Most people are simply enamoured and distracted by the chat
apps, games and tv. No time to engage in "conversations"
anymore. :(



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Hey August!

Most people are simply enamoured and distracted by the chat apps,
games and tv.

What's your point?

No time to engage in "conversations" anymore. :(

I seriously doubt their abilities. I also doubt whatever apps will connect them to real people anyhow so catering to them is a complete waste of time and resourses.

Дуже груви,
Maurice

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On 10 Nov. 2025 21:22, you wrote to August:

Hey August!

Most people are simply enamoured and distracted by the chat apps,
games and tv.

What's your point?

My point is "distracted", as stated.

No time to engage in "conversations" anymore. :(

I seriously doubt their abilities. I also doubt whatever apps will connect them to real people anyhow so catering to them is a complete waste of time and resourses.

True. Even using something like Aftershock cannot attract users. Although some editing features are available, cleaning up a quoted message from penguins that look like they've escaped from the zoo can be a daunting task. ;)


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Hey August!

cleaning up a quoted message from penguins that look like they've
escaped from the zoo can be a daunting task.

The heathen bastards!!!

Дуже груви,
Maurice

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Re: But it's mostly used by us sysops..
By: Maurice Kinal to August Abolins on Tue Nov 11 2025 00:35:55

hello from California USA !
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Hej Christian!

hello from California USA !

I feel your pain.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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Hello Carol Shenkenberger!

** On Tuesday 14.07.26 - 20:28, you wrote to Dave Perrussel:

Carol pretty much just uses this for those connected to her node for
Fidonet traffic. Anyone can post here, of course. But it's mostly used by
us sysops.

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Yup, and no objection if others need it for testing too! The official testing echo is useless for that.

FIDOTEST seems pretty active.
But is another one just called TEST, and rarely used.

Is there another one that you mean?

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Yes, I often use it for testing. I had a bad crash while in the hospital due to
severe low sodium, something that has plagued me for decades. It caused something simular to a stroke.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are doing well now!

Unfortunately, I was not aware of how much it messed up my head until later. I
broke the 1:275/100 node badly. I am looking at installing a completely new
box with Mystic and have part of that complete. It's win11 instead of XP.

The holdup is how to make the transition seamless for those who get mail from
me. There aren't many but in fairness, they deserve that.

Same here in that there are not too many. More on othernets than FIDO. A few months back, I migrated the hub over to a different machine. I let the connections know in advance which day I planned to be offline for a while and got the destination machine configured. On the day of, I took everything down, migrated any waiting mail from the old machine to the new, and then brought the new mailer instance online in place of the old one. Then I let the connections know the system was back.

Took some thinking, and wasn't without a few small issues, but that was as seamless as I could think to make it.

Mike

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Re: Re: Testing
By: Mike Powell to Carol Shenkenberger on Wed Jul 15 2026 02:43 pm

Yes, I often use it for testing. I had a bad crash while in the hospital

due to

severe low sodium, something that has plagued me for decades. It caused something simular to a stroke.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are doing well now!

Unfortunately, I was not aware of how much it messed up my head until

later. I

broke the 1:275/100 node badly. I am looking at installing a completely

new

box with Mystic and have part of that complete. It's win11 instead of X

The holdup is how to make the transition seamless for those who get mail

from

me. There aren't many but in fairness, they deserve that.

Same here in that there are not too many. More on othernets than FIDO. A f months back, I migrated the hub over to a different machine. I let the connections know in advance which day I planned to be offline for a while an got the destination machine configured. On the day of, I took everything do migrated any waiting mail from the old machine to the new, and then brought new mailer instance online in place of the old one. Then I let the connecti know the system was back.

Took some thinking, and wasn't without a few small issues, but that was as seamless as I could think to make it.

Mike

Brain's now working at least! Right now I need toget a new feed though.
xxcarol
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Brain's now working at least!

That is always a plus!

Mike

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Re: Re: Testing
By: Mike Powell to Carol Shenkenberger on Wed Jul 15 2026 02:43 pm

Yes, I often use it for testing. I had a bad crash while in the hospital

due to

severe low sodium, something that has plagued me for decades. It caused something simular to a stroke.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are doing well now!

Unfortunately, I was not aware of how much it messed up my head until

later. I

broke the 1:275/100 node badly. I am looking at installing a completely

new

box with Mystic and have part of that complete. It's win11 instead of X

The holdup is how to make the transition seamless for those who get mail

from

me. There aren't many but in fairness, they deserve that.

Same here in that there are not too many. More on othernets than FIDO. A f months back, I migrated the hub over to a different machine. I let the connections know in advance which day I planned to be offline for a while an got the destination machine configured. On the day of, I took everything do migrated any waiting mail from the old machine to the new, and then brought new mailer instance online in place of the old one. Then I let the connecti know the system was back.

Took some thinking, and wasn't without a few small issues, but that was as seamless as I could think to make it.

Mike

I think I have figured it all out. Likely will pull chocks
tomorrow.

xxcarol

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