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Hello Vincent,

02 May 23 17:01, you wrote to All:

 VC> Right well no one has expressed an interest in taking over the Elist
 VC> service along with the Pi it is running on.

 VC> To remind every one I will be 76 as of June 23 and my health could be
 VC> better.

 VC> Historically, for the previous two Elist maintainers etc, on their
 VC> death the service died as well as their next of kin had no usage of
 VC> the service or any other within fido land etc so could not be
 VC> contacted any way.

 VC> So this caused someone else to program a solution that the previous
 VC> elist keeper had in fact done. What a waste of effort.

 VC> I had hoped that by moving the entire operation on to a Raspberry Pi
 VC> which is low power system someone (a lot younger) might have been
 VC> interested in taking it over.

 VC> I having been running back ups of the running system on the Pi to my
 VC> primary system and in turn creating an archive of it so at least all
 VC> the elements are together on a JIC (Just in case basis). Again I have
 VC> not seen anyone grabbing it.

 VC> So I may well transfer the service back to my primary system as a
 VC> independent bbs system, if nothing else it will save me 2.5Kw
 VC> electricity bill per day which in money terms works out at the moment
 VC> as 0.35 pounds per day - no not a lot.

 VC> IF any one might be interested in taking this service over, hopefully
 VC> younger than myself please get in touch. You can use the Pi as a
 VC> complete system or run it side by side of you existing bbs system if
 VC> you run Linux as it uses mbse as the bbs system and the elist software
 VC> is designed to use the bbs mailer and other services to run which make
 VC> it fairly automated - any bugs allowed for.

 VC> I will be bundling up the source code for Elist into an archive along
 VC> with a manual and other documentation for historic value may
 VC> be. Remember the elist system also looks after the BACKBONE.NA and
 VC> BACKBONE.RPT files where the former is usable with you file manager as
 VC> a list of all echos available in Fidonet. It does not hold any other
 VC> nets as one one has requested such - remember the .NA file does not
 VC> support the network name for each echo and any change to it would
 VC> require BBS file manager software to be modified which is yet another
 VC> issue.

 VC> No, I am not intending to get very unwell or to die any time soon, but
 VC> I have to start allowing for such.

why don't you put it on github or archive.org ?

Regards,
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dp

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