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  • Re: New BBS Disclaimer

    From George Pope@1:153/757 to Daryl Stout on Mon Mar 10 06:31:22 2025
    George,
    You forgot "even if it accesses your bank and moves your entire balance
    off-shore 'somewhere'; this nly happens, t ops, TOPS, one a week, so
    not to worry. . . you've paid your insurance rto tyhe sysop, right?
    It took me a minute to figure out your reply...then I looked at the
    subject line.
    I got very little sleep last night, and had to go to the Emergency
    Room at 5am this morning, with severe foot pain (I thought I had
    fractured it), and severe rectal spasms (I thought my butt was on
    fire).
    It turns out I had an attack of gout (I already have arthritis all
    through my body), and they gave me some medicine for the spasms. But,
    I didn't want a renegade storm to come in while I was gone, so I had
    shut the BBS down. When you tried to get in this morning, the system
    was trying to run a message base utility, and that's why it said "you
    have no time left".
    I'm trying to get the system to busy itself out to run the nightly
    doorgame maintenance, but it won't do it. So, I have to take the BBS
    down manually. I did see an email from digital man (Rob Swindell), the
    author of Synchronet, but I haven't gotten to it in the QWK packet yet.
    The thing is, during maintenance, accessing an item (message bases,
    file areas, or doors), can corrupt things big time.
    Shame on you, you've been around long enough to know better!

    You omitted a joke or funny/punny bit of content in your reply, unless the bit about you going to the hospiotal with a throbbing abnus & broken foot was intended to be for a laugh? You oughta know that if you try to kick your own arse, things can happen that might hurt, at your age. . .

    BTW, I support you're coming gout of the closet about your condition.

    "Didn't you say you had gout & couldn't even walk?"
    (I stand corrected, as I've been to the doc.)

    I'm taking Allopurinol, too, to dissolve uric acid buildup in my kidneys (leading to big honking painful stones); is that the drug they gave you?

    I've old you that you need to wear your readers when reading the Bible; the quote is to separate the goats from the sheep, not the GOUTS!

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-7
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)