Subj : Maximus on Solaris 10
To   : Mvan Le
From : Ryan de Laplante
Date : Sat Apr 14 2007 10:51 pm

I just wanted to say how much our long discussions reminds me of my very first
days BBSing.  It must have been around 1990-1992? My favorite BBS happened to
be running Maximus.  The guy owned a computer store and back then businesses
had a BBS, not a website.  In 1993 I wanted to start my own BBS, so he
recommended Maximus. Big mistake for him, because I must have wasted hours of
his time with questions about everything.  I didn't even know how to extract
ARJ files :)

Anyway, he was on FidoNet, and I spent countless hours reading echo's.  One of
the people I talked to the most was in Australia, like you.  I don't remember
what we talked about, but I do remember it would take 2 days for my messages to
get to him, and 2 days for his responses to come back.  Back then packetmail
was delivered overnight, and I guess it had to go through so many hubs before
getting to Australia that it just took a long time.

Those were the days!  BBSing was the most incredible thing to me, and that's
why I keep mine around to this day.


Ryan


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