Hello All,

With my recent heart attack, I have been working on ensuring the continuity of many of my BBS projects, to include Micronet and Cheepware, if something happens to me.

In the case of Micronet, Andrew has full access not only to my BBS server but my webhost so he can take over Micronet's website as well as control of Micronet.

I am working on Cheepware right now. I'm cleaning up all the source code and going to put it on my Sourceforge repo which Andrew will have access to as well.

As for my BBS, it would be up to Andrew whether or not to continue it if something happens to me.

This is an unpleasant thing to talk about but with a ticking timebomb in my chest, I feel it's something I need to plan for. I am not planning on dropping dead anytime soon but you never know.

Micronet is very important to me and I want it to continue on whether or not I am at the helm.

-- Sean

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Re: Just in case
By: Sean Dennis to All on Thu Apr 07 2022 10:57 am

Hello All,

With my recent heart attack, I have been working on ensuring the continuity of man
of my BBS projects, to include Micronet and Cheepware, if something happens to me.

In the case of Micronet, Andrew has full access not only to my BBS server but my
webhost so he can take over Micronet's website as well as control of Micronet.

I am working on Cheepware right now. I'm cleaning up all the source code and goin
to put it on my Sourceforge repo which Andrew will have access to as well.

As for my BBS, it would be up to Andrew whether or not to continue it if something
happens to me.

This is an unpleasant thing to talk about but with a ticking timebomb in my chest,
feel it's something I need to plan for. I am not planning on dropping dead anytim
soon but you never know.

Micronet is very important to me and I want it to continue on whether or not I am
the helm.

-- Sean

... If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?

Well, I guess this is just like when people talks about Volkerdig's plans to hand over
Slackware to somebody else, or Linus' plans to pass the control of the kernel to
somebody else if need be. They are plans that are there just because people wants for
it to be a plan, but this people are eternal and will be building software forever.

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On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 10:57:41 -0400
"Sean Dennis" <sean.dennis@618:618/1> wrote:

Micronet is very important to me and I want it to continue on whether
or not I am at the helm.

I wish all network owners were as conscientious. We're here one day,
gone the next and it's left to everyone else to deal with the mess
that's left behind. Thanks for making sure the network is in good hands.

I've also been thinking, we should have a sysop memorial wall website somewhere. I was looking for a sysop's contact details. He is in the
nodelist and everything, Yet, he expired some time ago. It'd also be a
good way to honor those who have run a BBS in the past, or currently,
but is no more.

Nodelists should also maybe have a deceased.

Umm anyway, I am rambling now :)...and we all know you're not going
anywhere just yet!
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To: Nigel Reed
Re: Re: Just in case
By: Nigel Reed to Sean Dennis on Thu Apr 07 2022 06:31 pm

I've also been thinking, we should have a sysop memorial wall website somewhere. I was looking for a sysop's contact details. He is in the nodelist and everything, Yet, he expired some time ago. It'd also be a
good way to honor those who have run a BBS in the past, or currently,
but is no more.

for like over 10 years i was the bbs obituary guy.
i just got sick of doing bbsnews.
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SEAN DENNIS wrote to ALL <=-

This is an unpleasant thing to talk about but with a ticking timebomb
in my chest, I feel it's something I need to plan for. I am not
planning on dropping dead anytime soon but you never know.

We are at that age now. I don't have any big legacy, so when I am gone,
my step-daughter has instructions to sell what she doesn't want and
toss whatever doesn't sell LOL. Yea, someone would have to make over my Micronet hubbing, but that's easily handled.

I just need to set her up with a list of email addresses to email when
I am gone.

Kev

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Kevin Nunn wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I just need to set her up with a list of email addresses to email when
I am gone.

I am lucky that I have Andrew to take over things if need be. It would be a real PITA to try to train someone how to do some of the stuff involved with
FTN hubbing. Thankfully I took the time to automate the creation and
hatching of the Micronet nodelist and infopack which means Andrew can just
copy over the files and the script will work with very minor modification in his system.

I am not planning on going anywhere soon, thankfully.

-- Sean

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DIGIMAUS wrote to KEVIN NUNN <=-

I am not planning on going anywhere soon, thankfully.

Me either LOL, but with good planning we can reduce stress and work on
others after we are gone.

Kev

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Hello Nigel Reed!

** On Thursday 07.04.22 - 18:31, Nigel Reed wrote to Sean Dennis:

I've also been thinking, we should have a sysop memorial
wall website somewhere. I was looking for a sysop's
contact details. He is in the nodelist and everything,
Yet, he expired some time ago. It'd also be a good way to
honor those who have run a BBS in the past, or currently,
but is no more.

Perhaps something like this, but for othernets:

https://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua/

Nodelists should also maybe have a deceased.

"DOWN," seems to serve the same function, no?

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Hello digimaus!

** On Friday 08.04.22 - 19:18, digimaus wrote to Kevin Nunn:

with FTN hubbing. Thankfully I took the time to automate
the creation and hatching of the Micronet nodelist and
infopack which means Andrew can just copy over the files
and the script will work with very minor modification in
his system.

FYI, the latest .098 nodelist still bears the March 12
headline/data in the header.

I am not planning on going anywhere soon, thankfully.

Good!
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August Abolins wrote to Nigel Reed <=-

Nodelists should also maybe have a deceased.

"DOWN," seems to serve the same function, no?

If you're referring to a memoriam by leaving deceased sysops' entries in the nodelist, the nodelist police were having none of that a couple of years
back.

It might be interesting to come up with a downlist, *all* of the BBS sysops that have left the scene. You'd want to key on the sysop name and remove any duplicate entries, but you could log the first time they arrived in the nodelist and when they left.


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It might be interesting to come up with a downlist, *all* of the BBS sysops that have left the scene. You'd want to key on the sysop name and remove any duplicate entries, but you could log the first time they arrived in the nodelist and when they left.

IIRC, one of Europe's nodelist police has a way of telling people when a system/sysop first showed up, and the last time they were listed. Not sure
if he is doing it by hand or what, be he sometimes chimes in to correct
someone about when they first joined FIDO.

He must not have much to do.

Mike


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Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

It might be interesting to come up with a downlist, *all* of the BBS sysops that have left the scene. You'd want to key on the sysop name and remove any duplicate entries, but you could log the first time they arrived in the nodelist and when they left.

IIRC, one of Europe's nodelist police has a way of telling people
when a system/sysop first showed up, and the last time they were
listed. Not sure if he is doing it by hand or what, be he
sometimes chimes in to correct someone about when they first
joined FIDO.

He must not have much to do.

Probably just looking them up here:

https://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua/


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Hello Mike,

11 Apr 22 16:30, you wrote to KURT WEISKE:

He must not have much to do.

Is it Willie?

-- Sean

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|03Quoting message from |11Mike Powell |03to |11Kurt Weiske
|03on |1111 Apr 22 16:30:00|03.

It might be interesting to come up with a downlist, *all* of the BBS sysops that have left the scene. You'd want to key on the sysop name and remove any duplicate entries, but you could log the first time they arrived in the nodelist and when they left.

IIRC, one of Europe's nodelist police has a way of telling people when a system/sysop first showed up, and the last time they were listed. Not sur if he is doing it by hand or what, be he sometimes chimes in to correct someone about when they first joined FIDO.

He must not have much to do.

Mike

when i go i'm taking all of you with me so there will be nobody to write
our obituaries.

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Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

IIRC, one of Europe's nodelist police has a way of telling people when
a system/sysop first showed up, and the last time they were listed.
Not sure if he is doing it by hand or what, be he sometimes chimes in
to correct someone about when they first joined FIDO.

He must not have much to do.

There is a web site that you can search the nodelist for a sysop, and it'll pull up the name and all the changes. I'd forgotten some of the telephone numbers I'd run with back in the day and found it mildly entertaining.


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11 Apr 22 16:30, you wrote to KURT WEISKE:

He must not have much to do.

Is it Willie?

IIRC, yes it is.

Mike


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Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

IIRC, yes it is.

How did I know? That guy must have a tiny prick or just is batshit crazy
from being Dutch. Almost all the people who are annoying me in Fidonet are Dutch. Is it in their DNA to be a bunch of assholes? <G>

-- Sean

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To: Mike Powell
Re: Just in case
By: Mike Powell to SEAN DENNIS on Tue Apr 12 2022 03:53 pm

From Newsgroup: Micronet.MIN_CHAT

11 Apr 22 16:30, you wrote to KURT WEISKE:

He must not have much to do.

Is it Willie?

IIRC, yes it is.

Mike

atleast someone is keeping track. i was on the nodelist over 4 years after quitting fidonet.
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To: digimaus
Re: Re: Just in case
By: digimaus to Mike Powell on Tue Apr 12 2022 07:43 pm

From Newsgroup: Micronet.MIN_CHAT

Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

IIRC, yes it is.

How did I know? That guy must have a tiny prick or just is batshit crazy from being Dutch. Almost all the people who are annoying me in Fidonet are Dutch. Is it in their DNA to be a bunch of assholes? <G>

-- Sean

dutch are fucking whackos. i was working in a dutch company. i had to get the fuck outta there.
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