Hey Nancy!

Sometimes it was a configuration issue, and that the sysop could
fix...

You'd think that should be doable.

and when it was a software bug, the sysop can pass it along to the author... ;)

Highly debatable that there is a reachable author given all the abandonware still in use. A decent hacker would probably be what is required. Mind you I believe that has always been true.

At least the updates didn't create new problems.... ;)

So far so good. :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 13-Oct-2018 01:01 <=-

Sometimes it was a configuration issue, and that the sysop could
fix...

You'd think that should be doable.

And generally was... :)

and when it was a software bug, the sysop can pass it along to the
author... ;)

Highly debatable that there is a reachable author given all the abandonware still in use.

It does depend on the software, true.... I know of at least 4 that are currently still being developed, and have authors that are reachable...
and reasonably responsive... :) But I was also talking about past
softwares before they became abandonware... On a number of occasions I
had (and still have) a sysop who was helping to beta test some software, sometimes as the main software for the bbs, and sometimes off in a more
private area... :)

A decent hacker would probably be what is
required. Mind you I believe that has always been true.

And so it often is... :)

At least the updates didn't create new problems.... ;)

So far so good. :-)

That's good.... :)

ttyl neb

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