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I got to a point about 8 months ago where I just overlook that stuff as I have learned have zero interest.
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I got to a point about 8 months ago where I just overlook that stuff as I have learned have zero interest.
Yea, I'll probably just 'ignore' any accounts that post the same exact messages 3+ times in a row. Problem solved.
 
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Yea, I'll probably just 'ignore' any accounts that post the same exact messages 3+ times in a row. Problem solved.
Heads up it’s global.
 
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Heads up it’s global.
I'm well aware of that. I ran a popular discussion forum using vBulletin going all the way back to the mid 2000's.

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I'm well aware of that. I ran a popular discussion forum using vBulletin going all the way back to the mid 2000's.

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Ah the days of bbs and ‘true’ newsgroups (nntp)
 
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Ah the days off bbs and ‘true’ newsgroups.
No, no. vBulletin was/is web-based discussion forums. Commercialization of the Interwebz and products like vBulletin is what helped to usher in the end of the (awesome) BBS days ... 😢

My years as a SysOp of a multi-line, FIDO-enabled BBS started back in 1990 and lasted through 1996. I ran T.A.G. BBS software mostly. Ran Maximus on Linux and OS/2 for short while, too.

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No, no. vBulletin was/is web-based discussion forums. Commercialization of the Interwebz and products like vBulletin is what helped to usher in the end of the (awesome) BBS days ... 😢

My years as a SysOp of a multi-line, FIDO-enabled BBS started back in 1990 and lasted through 1996. I ran T.A.G. BBS software mostly. Ran Maximus on Linux and OS/2 for short while, too.

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Np, i go back to the days of ‘The Major BBS’, ‘PCBoard’, and ‘Searchlight’, back when it was a big deal having ‘two’ lines coming into the house, just make sure call waiting wasn’t enabled on the line though.
 
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Np, i go back to the days of ‘The Major BBS’, ‘PCBoard’, and ‘Searchlight’, back when it was a big deal having ‘two’ lines coming into the house, just make sure call waiting wasn’t enabled on the line though.
I ran T.A.G. multi-line under DESQview/MS-DOS, and then Maximus multi-line under Linux. IIRC, I had six or seven phone lines coming to the house during the board's heyday.

I recall that other BBS software, and many more. I don't remember why, but I hated Searchlight. T.A.G. was an offshoot from WWIV.

Remember Computer Shopper (magazine)? That thing was as thick as a phone book!
 

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I ran T.A.G. multi-line under DESQview/MS-DOS, and then Maximus multi-line under Linux. IIRC, I had six or seven phone lines coming to the house during the board's heyday.

I recall that other BBS software, and many more. I don't remember why, but I hated Searchlight. T.A.G. was an offshoot from WWIV.
DESQview rocked!

any chance you recall cp/m?
 
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DESQview rocked!

any chance you recall cp/m?
I recall it, but that was just a little before my time ... :)
 

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