Hey everyone. Long time no post. I actually rarely do post even on my own board
and, now that I think about it, I'm not sure I've made more than the occasional
post here.

As the title suggests, I've had a bit of a strange experience involving fido
that I just wanted to share for the fact it's some reasonable sysop chat.

I've only ever been on 2 Fido networks -- micronet and FSXnet. I found even
just gettig them going a few years ago to seem like more of a chore than it
should have been (as in, I had trouble wrapping my mind around some aspects of
it and Synchronet) but I at least succeeded in these two areas.

Flash to earlier this month, where I actually closed the BBS on a whim. 10 days
later I missed it so I fired up the server, opened ports again, and got it back
to normal.

I began to look over it again and noticed something -- I hadn't had a new
message from FSXnet since September 28th. Turns out, for whatever reason, my
board wasn't responding to them in whatever way they check, nor had any
attempts to contact me been successful, and as such I was pulled from the
network. That was, again, late September. Yeah, I didn't notice this until just
now!

I say this not for any particular reason, as I'm nuetral to it all at this
stage, but I found it interesting that there hasn't been a similar issue here.
Again, I've been quite hands-off with my BBS and don't recall changing anything
that should have caused an issue, but obviously something broke, or I missed a
memo somewhere.

I guess it's just one of those strange aspects of running such arcane systems
like BBS's are. Figured some here might have found this at least somewhat
interesting or may have some insight. I guess I could just say I'm... slightly
bemused by the whole thing.

Oh well, at least the unrelated event of me shutting my board down for 10 days
made me grow to appreciate it again, right? That's always a plus.
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