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    From Mark Hofmann@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 15 07:47:56 2016
    I can't believe you guys are still working on wwiv 5.0 after the
    release
    of 4.24 17 years ago.

    Not to mention, we have a fully functional WWIVnet with a great group
    of people/systems that have joined.

    Some things have changed - for the better, but we are still rolling
    along.

    - Mark

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  • From dilbert firestorm@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 14 20:45:18 2016
    I can't believe you guys are still working on wwiv 5.0 after the release
    of 4.24 17 years ago.

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  • From dilbert firestorm@21:1/5 to Mark Hofmann on Fri Apr 15 08:55:33 2016
    On 4/15/2016 7:47 AM, Mark Hofmann wrote:

    I can't believe you guys are still working on wwiv 5.0 after the
    release
    of 4.24 17 years ago.

    Not to mention, we have a fully functional WWIVnet with a great group
    of people/systems that have joined.

    Some things have changed - for the better, but we are still rolling
    along.

    - Mark

    I read the newsletter.

    was it really necessary to eliminate support for modems?

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  • From dilbert firestorm@21:1/5 to Jimmy Mac on Sat Apr 16 05:33:36 2016
    On 4/15/2016 3:27 PM, Jimmy Mac wrote:
    RE: Re: wwiv 5.0
    BY: dilbert firestorm <scanb31@bytemei-55.com>

    was it really necessary to eliminate support for modems?

    Since the code to support modems hasn't worked in v5.0, there was no reason to
    keep it in.

    I would love to see modem support but honestly, how many users would use it?



    a better question is how many have dsl or cable service. I would think
    not that many.

    Internet under those 2 services is around 30-40 million last I heard.

    I have to admit that a lot of people are cutting out the POTS line since getting a cell phone. I don't know the numbers for that one tho. prolly
    more than 50 million.


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  • From Mark Hofmann@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 16 17:26:53 2016
    I read the newsletter.

    was it really necessary to eliminate support for modems?

    When you could use a Synchronet program called SexPots to allow modem
    support in any BBS, there was really no need to keep it locally in the application.

    You can still run an analog modem with WWIV if you wish using SexPots.


    - Mark

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  • From dilbert firestorm@21:1/5 to Mark Hofmann on Sun Apr 17 05:49:16 2016
    On 4/16/2016 5:26 PM, Mark Hofmann wrote:

    I read the newsletter.

    was it really necessary to eliminate support for modems?

    When you could use a Synchronet program called SexPots to allow modem
    support in any BBS, there was really no need to keep it locally in the application.

    You can still run an analog modem with WWIV if you wish using SexPots.


    - Mark

    never heard of sexpots. I guess that makes sense if you have a separate
    addon as a feature.

    interesting name tho.

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  • From WEATHERMAN@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 18 08:21:42 2016
    Have you tried this in a VM? ESXi or Hyper-V?

    I have never tried using it and don't really know much about it. I
    don't see any reason why it wouldn't work in a VM.

    I have a serial device connected to my ESXi cluster via a
    serial<->ethernet terminal server, and it works just great.

    - Mark

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  • From Robert Wolfe@21:1/5 to Jimmy Mac on Thu Aug 20 07:09:32 2020
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    On 14 Jun 2020, Jimmy Mac said the following...

    From: "Jimmy Mac" <bloodstone@bsbbs.remove.com>


    RE: Re: wwiv 5.0
    BY: dilbert firestorm <scanb31@bytemei-55.com>

    was it really necessary to eliminate support for modems?

    Since the code to support modems hasn't worked in v5.0, there was no reason to keep it in.

    You could always use SEXPOTS by Rob Swindell which is a dialup to telnet gateway of sorts. I've run it before and it works quite well.
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