Subj : Re: ET phone home
To : Roger Nelson
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Mon Jan 09 2017 12:59 pm
RN> Even though
RN> most of the naysaying, anti D'Bridge troublemakers have faded into the
RN> past, there are still a few around who want to cause trouble for 2
RN> reasons. 1) they can, and 2) they don't have an inkling of what D'Bridge
RN> is about.
I find this a perfectly valid analyses.
I think I got my license KEE in 1988 ... Eewwhhhh ... I'm in my 29th DB-year.
Back in those days there was a pre-configured setting that made a rescan the
first time someone linked-in to an echo but due to some bug it also mirrored
the complete content of that or these echo[es] back up the path with a fresh
header and everything.
So you knew a new D'Bridge-customer had popped-up when massive rescans of
echoes were posted. This could be avoided and people with a brain were not
affected.
In those days the usage of D'BROKE or D'BUG became fashionable. The problem was
fixed, the myth persisted, especially among Frontdoor-users. JoHo had assembled
a fanclub and I remember a Eurocon where he had a group of followers that were
on his trail all the time as if he were a guru of some kind. So when he
mentioned D'BUG, they all started doing that. He stopped doing that when I had
a private talk with him July 2nd 1995.
