Subj : ET phone home
To : Ward Dossche
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Tue Jan 10 2017 07:34 am
On Mon Jan-09-2017 12:59, Ward Dossche (2:292/854) wrote to Roger Nelson:
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.
WD> I find this a perfectly valid analyses.
Thanks.
WD> I think I got my license KEE in 1988 ... Eewwhhhh ... I'm in my
WD> 29th DB-year. Back in those days there was a pre-configured
WD> setting that made a rescan the first time someone linked-in to an
WD> echo but due to some bug it also mirrored the complete content of
WD> that or these echo[es] back up the path with a fresh header and
WD> everything.
That wasn't DB130, was it? That's the version I began with.
WD> So you knew a new D'Bridge-customer had popped-up when massive
WD> rescans of echoes were posted. This could be avoided and people
WD> with a brain were not affected.
(-:
WD> In those days the usage of D'BROKE or D'BUG became fashionable. The
WD> problem was fixed, the myth persisted, especially among
WD> Frontdoor-users. JoHo had assembled a fanclub and I remember a
WD> Eurocon where he had a group of followers that were on his trail
WD> all the time as if he were a guru of some kind. So when he
WD> mentioned D'BUG, they all started doing that. He stopped doing that
WD> when I had a private talk with him July 2nd 1995.
Hero worship. I remember a bunch of guys (okay, maybe a few) telling Chris
that they could break his security and make their own kee, but no one that I
know of succeeded.
