We ended up going to her parents house to where I could ask her father to DL>marry her. Was so nervous that he looked me in the eye & asked me if I wante DL>just the hand or all of her. In my mind...thought he said no. I blush easy & DL>was looking for a way to go hide...while everyone was laughing...including DL>her. Looking at me...she said...ya gonna answer him? Are you interested in m DL>hand or the rest of me? Finally...said all of her when my mind figured out DL>what was happening.
Want embarrassment...we lived 2 hours away & were staying with her DL>grandmother. She lived in a big house...so they had the room a few weeks DL>after we got married. Going to bed after a long day...woke up the next DL>morning & went in with everyone sitting in the kitchen. Her grandmother aske DL>me if I'd slept good...so said yes I did. Not missing a beat...she said DL>great...didn't hear a thing. Would've made the perfect extra on Fantastic DL>Voyage when they all got shrunk. Couldn't find anywhere to hide from them DL>laughing up a storm.
We ended up going to her parents house to where I could ask her father DL>marry her. Was so nervous that he looked me in the eye & asked me if I DL>just the hand or all of her. In my mind...thought he said no. I blush eLOL. It's like being so nervous, you join the family for dinner, and drop the ring into the spaghetti. :P
Want embarrassment...we lived 2 hours away & were staying with her DL>grandmother. She lived in a big house...so they had the room a few week DL>after we got married. Going to bed after a long day...woke up the next DL>morning & went in with everyone sitting in the kitchen. Her grandmotherLOL. There's so little to laugh at nowadays, and if you can't laugh at yourself, you've got problems.
My biggest blunder in another hobby, amateur radio, is that "I need blind hams to direct me out of hospitals and parking decks"...which has literally happened!! <BG>
With these folks it would be more like Rocky Mountain Oysters. ;) That would DL>have a meaning on more than 1 level.
The only thing I didn't like was I was not expecting the remark & everyone DL>sitting around waiting on me. Otherwise...my response would've been quite DL>different & more adult.
Was at a field day several years ago. They were using solar to run the rigs DL>couldn't figure out why no power was getting to the rigs. Started walking th DL>field where the lines were & someone forgot to plug in a connector between DL>the cells/rig table. Having been in commercial radio for around 20 DL>years...was a very firm believer in Murphy's Law...no matter where I was at.
Shortly after my wife and I got married, we had flown down to her parents place in Apopka, just outside of Orlando. I was singing with the song "The Vows Go Unbroken" by Kenny Rogers...which I had at my wedding. When I got to the line "Though, I've been tempted....no, I have never strayed"...one of her cousins blurts out "OH!! HE'S BEEN TEMPTED!!". I nearly said "Oh, $h!+". That would've been just as bad as at the
wedding, if I had said "With this ring, I thee bed". Talk about being an eager beaver. <G>
Or they plug the power strip into itself, and can't figure out why it won't work.
Besides, before I got married, I filled out, and presented them with
the "Application To Date My Daughter". <G>
ACME BBS-Member of fsxNet/WWIVNet/SciNet/AmigaNet/VKRadio/FidoNet/MicroAre you the one in charge of FSXNet, or it someone else?? I forgot
where the message was on that.
Tried to answer this before heading to work earlier...but ran out of time. DL>Glad you didn't because down there...you may have been used for bait.
Favorite show is The IT Crowd. That's a running joke in the whole series.
ACME BBS-Member of fsxNet/WWIVNet/SciNet/AmigaNet/VKRadio/FidoNet/MicroNet.
As a matter of fact...I also get my FidoNet feed from him since he's
the Zone 3 hub for FidoNet.
As a matter of fact...I also get my FidoNet feed from him since he's the Zone 3 hub for FidoNet.His *one* of the Zone3 hubs. We have four systems that act as hubs.
Knew it had to be more than one. Looked on a globe the other day &
noticed if he handled all of Zone 3...he would never have enough time
for anything else.
Fidonet's echomail distribution is fucked up. Plain an simple. There is really no rhyme or reason of how it flows. People get feeds from all
over the place, it is a wonder at times that it even works.
Take my example...took almost a month to get my node number...then the
hub for the area tried to work with me...but gave up...so went with
Paul. No problems at all. This is crazy...especially since you have
those like me who use this medium like I used to do Facebook. Yourself...Paul & everyone else on everything but FidoNet have bent over backwards to make sure everything is running the way it's supposed to. I thank all of you for all your help & encouragement. Makes me excited to get home from work to see what everyone's talking about.
Netsurge wrote to Don Lowery <=-
The sad part in all of this is Paul, Attreyu and I all live in Fidonets administration, RCs or ZC in this case. I can't really speak for Paul
but I know that Nick and myself rail at Fidonet in general most of the time and technically we are railing at ourselves. Yelling into an empty room.
As a matter of fact...I also get my FidoNet feed from himsince he's
the Zone 3 hub for FidoNet.His *one* of the Zone3 hubs. We have four systems that act as
hubs.
Knew it had to be more than one. Looked on a globe the other day &
noticed if he handled all of Zone 3...he would never have enough time
for anything else.
but I know that Nick and myself rail at Fidonet in general most of the time and technically we are railing at ourselves. Yelling into an empty room.
When Paul changes 770/1 to use a different mail process that wont strip seen-bys I will moving to more interlinking of echo's with his system.
Fidonet's echomail distribution is fucked up. Plain an simple. There is really no rhyme or reason of how it flows. People get feeds from all over the place, it is a wonder at times that it even works.
On 03-15-20 23:10, Tracker1 wrote to Netsurge <=-
I really like NNTP myself... just makes more sense to me in an internet age vs the alternatives. QWK also seems more reasonable today than FTN though... I don't get the support that FTN seems to get other than, "it was good enough for my great grand father." (slightly hyperbolic)
I would like to see a better NNTP or general BBS client option that
used it though. Synchronet's adaptation is relatively good. I do wish the setup for Dovenet's boards were more usenet like.
"dove.synchronet" vs "Dove-Net.Synchronet_Discussion"
or
"dove.synchronet.javascript" vs "Dove-Net.Synchronet_JavaScript"
But that's less to do with the protocol... the fact that thunderbird
defaults reply to the user's email instead of "Followup" with the
group... or setting X-Apparently-To, etc... Which sync works around.
On 03-15-20 23:10, Tracker1 wrote to Netsurge <=-
I really like NNTP myself... just makes more sense to me in an internet
age vs the alternatives. QWK also seems more reasonable today than FTN though... I don't get the support that FTN seems to get other than, "it
was good enough for my great grand father." (slightly hyperbolic)
What do you particularly like about NNTP? Just curious.
me,I would like to see a better NNTP or general BBS client option that
used it though. Synchronet's adaptation is relatively good. I do wish
the setup for Dovenet's boards were more usenet like.
As I've said elsewhere, NNTP, as it stands, has a major design weakness for
in that last read pointers and newsgroup subscriptions are kept client side. There's also the matter of a lack of To: address in the standard setup, which runs against BBS tradition, but can apparently be worked around.
Synchronet's implementation of QWK networking is very good, with routing information, QWK netmail, long subjects and other features. It's alsopublicly
documented, so other BBS software can incorporate these extensions (ifsomeone
is maintaining the package). I quite like it, though FTN also has theconcept
of file echos, which is great for distributing things like nodelists and infopacks.
Tr> "dove.synchronet" vs "Dove-Net.Synchronet_Discussion"
Tr> or
Tr> "dove.synchronet.javascript" vs "Dove-Net.Synchronet_JavaScript"
Tr> But that's less to do with the protocol... the fact that thunderbird
Yeah that's a configuration issue. If it was my net, I'd use a more Usenet style of naming as well.
thedefaults reply to the user's email instead of "Followup" with the
group... or setting X-Apparently-To, etc... Which sync works around.
I think that's a Thunderbird/newsreader thing. I remember having to remember to followup a post to reply in the group, and use reply is I want to email
poster.
Maybe I should play more with the NNTP side of my Synchronet system. I'veonly
ever tried it as a means of access to the BBS, not a way to network BBSs.
As I've said elsewhere, NNTP, as it stands, has a major design weakness forme,
in that last read pointers and newsgroup subscriptions are kept client side. There's also the matter of a lack of To: address in the standard setup, which runs against BBS tradition, but can apparently be worked around.
On 03-19-20 22:07, Tracker1 wrote to Vk3jed <=-
What do you particularly like about NNTP? Just curious.
It's a simple protocol that is easy to follow, and works well enough
for very frequent polling leading to less disconnect on a network
level.
That said, there's nothing stopping a regular user from connecting to a telnet bbs, and it's effectively the same... just NNTP between boards
vs FTN or QWK. Also, nothing stopping anyone from creating a client
that will centralize the storage of pointers.
Agreed, would be able to add that support in terms of NNTP as
additional X-* headers that any given client/bbs can support.
Yeah that's a configuration issue. If it was my net, I'd use a more Usenet style of naming as well.
Yeah... it's a relatively minor niggle... just something I wish the default setup did.
Yeah, I changed the default as I kept hitting the wrong thing...
Maybe I should play more with the NNTP side of my Synchronet system. I'veonl
y
ever tried it as a means of access to the BBS, not a way to network BBSs.
It's interesting... not the greatest in terms of any setup, but for me, much more easy to understand as a protocol than FTN or QWK, not that either are too difficult, but I'm wanting to do more client integration work eventually.
On 03-19-20 23:21, Tracker1 wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Yeah, the existing clients suck... forgot to mention in my prior reply that I used to have thunderbird's data directory symlinked under my dropbox, so that I could carry the config on multiple systems.
One of the things I really want to do is work on a nice web ui, as well
as a standalone ui that's more BBS driven for messages as part of the
hub idea. It's one of a couple things I want to concentrate on for bbs.land and getting a hub working is just one part of that.
Of course, given how quickly I progress with things, it'll be done
around 20 years from now. At least once it's setup, with appropriate backups in place, should be able to keep it running as long as the bill for the VM is paid... so hub will definitely be around a while.
I understand FTN well, since that was the first message networking
protocol that I was familiar with. QWK came later, and NNTP, I've
only ever done as a user. I never got around to playing with INN.
On 03-21-20 02:53, Tracker1 wrote to Vk3jed <=-
@VIA: VERT/TRN
On 3/19/2020 11:59 PM, Vk3jed wrote:
I understand FTN well, since that was the first message networking
protocol that I was familiar with. QWK came later, and NNTP, I've
only ever done as a user. I never got around to playing with INN.
The nntp service in sync is actually a pretty decent primer... haven't looked at it in probably a decade plus at this point, I know there's
more there than when I last looked...
Since I'm pretty good with JS, for me it's a natural place to start
when integrating client/platform work for the couple sites I want to integrate with. Being a pretty standard protocol should help, and Synchronet/platform extensions should help as well...
Will have to dig in a bit, really interrested in the vote bits and how those carry over the network, not to mention the avatars, I don't think those are currently in the headers, but could be a nice addition as
well.
Will have to dig in a bit, really interrested in the vote bits and how those carry over the network, not to mention the avatars, I don't think those are currently in the headers, but could be a nice addition as
well.
Ahh, OK. I don't see any of that stuff, because it's not currently available in offline readers. I rarely read online for a number of reasons.
On 03-26-20 05:26, Tracker1 wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Yeah, I was surprised myself... was playing with setting up my header/reader mod on TRN... still need to adjust my lightbar reader
prompt to match the new/added commands.
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