Text 2914, 78 rader
Skriven 2004-12-06 16:26:13 av Roy Witt (1:10/22)
   Kommentar till text 2822 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
Ärende: Z1B <> EP1
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06 Dec 04 13:47, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> You're conversing with one individual (Matt) who was
 RW>> part of that scheme, when it was being used. It was
 RW>> used by the Z1Backbone, a long, long time ago. There
 RW>> were two sysops who first implemented the scheme,
 RW>> Bruce Bodger and John Sylvester.

 ml> actually, it goes back even further than that...

Before my time.

 ml> back when or before george peace was a top level hub...

That's when I came in.

 ml> in fact, i recall that being the case before john souvestre (not
 ml> sylvester)

Reminders of the The Cajon Pussy always makes me spell his name Sylvester.
It's a FLAME echo thing.

 ml> moved up the echomail chain and that goes back to before the Z1B was
 ml> thought of...

Right, but I had forgotten what it was called then. Z1B was as good as
any. Wait! Does BOFAQ ring a bell. That was before the Z1B and Bodger
and Souvestre were involved then. Bodger being the Z1EC who set all of
the standards for the, hmmmm, .

 ml>  the Z1B came about when john and others got together to start
 ml> another backbone because john left the original one due to his not
 ml> likeing the way some things were going or being done...

Uh huh, when he and Seaborn finally had the last straw with each other.

 RW>> You might recognize node 1:396/1 as a major echomail
 RW>> mover during that time.

 ml> the use of the echolist was going on years before 396/1 thought about
 ml> becoming a major mail mover...

 ml> [trim]

 RW>> You can also see the works of both sysops, Bodger and
 RW>> Sylvester in your own EP1, as they were the people who
 RW>> wrote the original.

 ml> there were others involved at that time, too...

I used to have a copy here, but it may be on another HD that's out of use
right now. Hell, I've got MFM HDs in storage with those early days on it.

 RW>> Their version was rejected by the *Cs of this zone and

 ml> i think it was a bit more involved than that... ISTR that it was
 ml> rejected here before it ever had a chance to be presented to any
 ml> other zones...

But may have been where they came up with it.

 ml>  those zones were extremely small in comparison to Z1 at that time...
 ml> i don't recall if we had progressed as far as Z4 or Z5, though...
 ml> possibly... possibly not... i'll have to dig in my floppy archives to
 ml> see what i can find from that era...

That'd be interesting.

 ml> excellent quote, BTW... it definitely shows that it was the
 ml> backbone(s) that had these (disputed) requirements...

Yeup, hopefully clearing things up a bit for those who blame it all on the
echolist.


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