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    From Donald Price@1:218/700 to All on Fri Mar 21 12:48:00 2014
    Hellooooooo




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  • From Paul Quinn@1:218/700 to Donald Price on Sat Mar 22 10:23:00 2014
    Hi! Don,

    In a message to All you wrote:

    Hellooooooo

    Ahahaha... your turn to 'shout the bar' (buy a round of drinks)! Those types of messages are fined a 'shout' ;-)

    Did you want to talk Argus, Radius, Taurus or Trapgate with us?

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Björn Felten@1:218/700 to Paul Quinn on Sat Mar 22 01:39:56 2014
    Ahahaha... your turn to 'shout the bar' (buy a round of drinks)! Those types of messages are fined a 'shout' ;-)

    I'll have a glass of Auchentoshan if you have it. With a dash of water in it. Thank you.

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  • From Paul Quinn@1:218/700 to Björn Felten on Sat Mar 22 10:48:00 2014
    Hi! Bj÷rn,

    On Sat, 22 Mar 14, you wrote to me:

    Ahahaha... your turn to 'shout the bar' (buy a round of drinks)!
    Those types of messages are fined a 'shout' ;-)

    I'll have a glass of Auchentoshan if you have it. With a dash of
    water in it. Thank you.

    Don't tell me your woes. Tell the offender: Donald.

    Don, I'll have a 'Pygmy' (Short Black Russian; no mixer; single block of ice), ta muchly.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Björn Felten@1:218/700 to Paul Quinn on Sat Mar 22 03:04:16 2014
    I'll have a glass of Auchentoshan if you have it. With a dash of
    water in it. Thank you.

    Don't tell me your woes. Tell the offender: Donald.

    Duh! This is echomail, mate! It's a message to every participant, including the shouter.

    Don, I'll have a 'Pygmy' (Short Black Russian; no mixer; single block of ice), ta muchly.

    Sounds sweet. Gotta try that in the next round... Ditto with the ta muchly.

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  • From Paul Quinn@1:218/700 to Björn Felten on Sat Mar 22 12:08:00 2014
    Hi! Bj÷rn,

    On Sat, 22 Mar 14, you wrote to me:

    Don, I'll have a 'Pygmy' (Short Black Russian; no mixer; single
    block of ice), ta muchly.

    Sounds sweet. Gotta try that in the next round... Ditto with the
    ta muchly.

    Absolutely. You'll be feeling warm & cudley after three of them. You'd better

    make sure that is Anita the 'designated driver', too. :)

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Björn Felten@1:218/700 to Paul Quinn on Sat Mar 22 03:14:06 2014
    Absolutely. You'll be feeling warm & cudley after three of them. You'd better make sure that is Anita the 'designated driver', too. :)

    How cute is that, you remember my wife's name. 8-)

    But how's about I sleep over at your place rather than going on the road?

    Nah... 'nuff with the OT already. Even if it's Friday night and the whiskey bottle is half empty, tomorrow is another day.

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  • From Paul Quinn@1:218/700 to Björn Felten on Sat Mar 22 12:18:00 2014
    Hi! Bj÷rn,

    On Sat, 22 Mar 14, you wrote to me:

    Nah... 'nuff with the OT already. Even if it's Friday night and
    the whiskey bottle is half empty, tomorrow is another day.

    Okey dokey.

    Your tomorrow is already half gone, here. It's midday![sfx: giggle snort]

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Björn Felten@1:218/700 to Paul Quinn on Sat Mar 22 03:41:11 2014
    Your tomorrow is already half gone, here. It's midday![sfx: giggle snort]

    Ah yes, You're half a day ahead of us. I keep forgetting.

    Gotta go to bed and spoon up with my Anita now. See ya later, alligator...

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  • From Donald Price@1:218/700 to Paul Quinn on Sun May 4 08:09:00 2014
    Hellooooooo

    Ahahaha... your turn to 'shout the bar' (buy a round of drinks)! Those types of messages are fined a 'shout' ;-)

    Did you want to talk Argus, Radius, Taurus or Trapgate with us?


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    I myself am using Argus. Been using it since I fired the BBS back up. Seems
    to work properly all these years, but no updates, etc.


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  • From Paul Quinn@1:218/700 to Donald Price on Mon May 5 09:10:00 2014
    Hi! Don,

    On Sun, 04 May 14, you wrote to me:

    I myself am using Argus. Been using it since I fired the BBS back up. Seems to work properly all these years, but no updates, etc.

    I started using Argus in the early noughties and loved it. There weren't any updates to it directly.

    However, the source code was taken up by a 'maintainer' team of Denis Voituk (Russian) and Alex Shakhaylo (Ukrainian), who called the new effort "Radius". Radius is a drop-in replacement for an Argus installation, though there might be some additional settings required to be configured in its setup. Radius contains many fixes & enhancements over the basic Argus.

    Alex went a little overboard with some of his 'steak knife' extras coded into later versions, so Denis asked him to fork the development of those extras. This further development became known as a thing called "Taurus".

    Since then, a feller named Frans Lupschen has done 'some work' on the Argus & Radius sources in late 2013 on a project called "Trapgate". I don't know what changes he may have made as I haven't run any versions of his. Nothing has turned up in the Trapgate echo over here and I haven't checked his website since December, so, I don't know what's going on with it (other than I think he

    was de-constructing some GUI aspects, unnecessarily).

    I sincerely hope that I haven't told you things that you already knew of. :|

    I'm running Radius from the latest (I think) version issued in January 2005, since then. It's a magnificent improvement on Argus. OTOH, I have noticed that some very recent versions of BinkD barf on first-time connects.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Paul Hayton@1:218/700 to Paul Quinn on Wed May 7 22:05:00 2014
    On 05-05-14, Paul Quinn pondered and said...

    I sincerely hope that I haven't told you things that you already knew
    of. :|

    Well having just read all of that I found it really helpfull :-)

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  • From Donald Price@1:218/700 to Paul Quinn on Fri May 9 15:49:55 2014
    Hi! Don,

    On Sun, 04 May 14, you wrote to me:

    I myself am using Argus. Been using it since I fired the BBS back up. Seems to work properly all these years, but no updates, etc.

    I sincerely hope that I haven't told you things that you already knew of.
    :|
    I'm running Radius from the latest (I think) version issued in January
    2005, since then. It's a magnificent improvement on Argus. OTOH, I have noticed that some very recent versions of BinkD barf on first-time
    connects.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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    Lots of good info! I appreciate it and will use this new info!

    Thanks!


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  • From Gaylen Hintz@1:218/700 to Paul Quinn on Fri May 30 13:11:48 2014
    For reasons unknown to us Paul Quinn said thus to Donald Price:

    Since then, a feller named Frans Lupschen has done 'some work'
    on the Argus & Radius sources in late 2013 on a project called
    "Trapgate". I don't know what changes he may have made as I
    haven't run any versions of his. Nothing has turned up in the
    Trapgate echo over here and I haven't checked his website
    since December, so, I don't know what's going on with it
    (other than I think he was de-constructing some GUI aspects, unnecessarily).

    Interesting, I've downloaded Trapgate and have been playing around with it a bit. I've got to admit that I'm a complete novice when it comes to these mailers as I have been using Irex for years. Many years ago I had a multiple dialup line using FrontDoor but this stuff to me is completely different. :)


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  • From Paul Quinn@1:218/700 to Gaylen Hintz on Sat May 31 08:49:00 2014
    Hi! Gaylen,

    On Fri, 30 May 14, you wrote to me:

    Since then, a feller named Frans Lupschen has done 'some work'
    on the Argus & Radius sources in late 2013 on a project called
    "Trapgate".

    Interesting, I've downloaded Trapgate and have been playing around
    with it a bit. I've got to admit that I'm a complete novice when it
    comes to these mailers as I have been using Irex for years. Many
    years ago I had a multiple dialup line using FrontDoor but this stuff
    to me is completely different. :)

    No doubt it is a different science entirely from running FrontDoor, or Irex. I

    know the feeling: I started in early '94 with FrontDoor, alternately using the commercial & non-commercial versions. Fortunately, the whole configuration (including a RemoteAccess BBS) blew itself away in the 'big bang' of November '98.

    During reconstruction, I commenced using BinkleyTerm (and a Mystic BBS, later).

    Binkley gave me the edge I needed to work on a binkD arrangement as well; since all of my Fidonet links were LD, it made sense to explore an IP method of

    exchanging mail & files. So, there was a time when I was running both Bink & binkD. Then I discovered Argus, and later Radius: the best ever mailer arrangment of its time.

    Pray, tell us more of this Trapgate thing. :)

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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