From: jason@hdcbbs.com.remove-15v-this   
      
     To: Avon Kerr   
     Re: Re: Testing   
     By: Avon Kerr to alt.bbs.allsysop on Wed Feb 17 2016 10:17 pm   
      
    > Hi Jason. Welcome to  this newsgroup.   
    >   
    > Best, Paul   
      
   Thanks! Glad to be here...   
      
   Just so everyone knows, i've been a Sysop since around 1993.  I started out   
   running VirtualBBS by Roland de Graaf and ran that through about 1997 until the   
   bbs machine suffered a big crash, and then around 2001 I began to run a BBS   
   again, and searched for VBBS but it wasn't around as that anymore it was around   
   as Virtual Advanced BBS and didn't really satify everything that I wanted in a   
   BBS and so I cam across Synchronet, which seemed to fulfill everything I wanted   
   and begin learning and running Synchronet.  Been running it ever since then.   
      
   Well, my BBS back then was The Games BBS, and after being online for a while, i   
   was calling around to other BBSs online and found The Hard Drive Cafe BBS,   
   which i called long distance back in the 90's because it was one of the more   
   popular BBS's that i had heard about.  Well just so happens, when i called in,   
   i noticed a messge from the Sysop (Dave Toy) talking about how he didn't have   
   time to run the BBS like he wanted to and was going to shut it down... Well   
   after reaching out to him, and having several conversations, I agreed to   
   acquire it from him, and change the name of my BBS to The Hard Drive Cafe BBS   
   so the name would stay alive since it was one of the greats from back in the   
   day...   
      
   Which brings me to now... Been running it ever since.. I did suffer another   
   crash around 2007 and wasn't able to bring it back online until i was able to   
   get things in my life situated, but brought it back online back in 2010 and   
   moved it around a little bit, until i finally found a permanent home for it at   
   my Web Hosting company, where it still sits today...   
      
   Glad to be here, glad to know real people monitor this group, and I look   
   forward to being a part of the conversation here! :)   
      
   Jason   
      
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