Got it...
So far, I've received 10$ from tfabris, and 10$ from you (stan). Add that to my $10 and we're up to $30...

-mark

...proud to have one of the first Mark I units

Add that to my $10 and we're up to $30...

Just for statistics: I've put GBP 10 in an envelope and snailed it to Paul. That adds US$ 15 to the total

Henno
ex 00120

Hah! I made it through! Took a minimum of four browser-back and try-it-again for each step of the proceedings but Dionysus now has my money to send to PaulH.

This was the first time I was even able to get onto their website!

tanstaafl.

"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"

...just received a $20, and a seperate $10 donation from paypal - come forward if you're the ones that sent this:)Paypal doesn't have your empeg handle on it... that makes it $75 total including henno's $15...
-mark


...proud to have one of the first Mark I units

The $20 one is from me.

tanstaafl.

"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"

This was the first time I was even able to get onto their website!

It's obvious that they're having some capacity-related system troubles just these last couple of days. At least the money isn't getting lost. Although our little BBS upgrade seems to have been poorly timed to coincide with these recent outages, I've never heard of them having this kind of trouble before.

When I first heard about them a couple of months ago, I smacked myself in the forehead and said, "Why didn't I think of that?" It's one of those dot-com startups that you wish you had been in on the ground floor of...

Tony Fabris (http://www.jps.net/tfabris)
Empeg #144

$10 came from me.

D

Payment Sent

NAME:
Mark R
EMAIL:
mr***@mse.ufl.ed*

DATE: TIME:
05/17/00 19:25:28

SUBJECT:
money from scoco

STATUS: AMOUNT:
Completed -$10.00


and then post a reply to this message with the confirmation from paypal.

..Just to confirm, we're up to $70 from paypal; plus another 15$ promissed in snail mail .. Almost there guys!

-mark

...proud to have one of the first Mark I units

Thanks for the upgrade guys, but I fail to see what was wrong with the old software.

Term

Okay - FINALLY got the transaction to go through at Paypal. You've got my $10 now as well.

Bill

Thanks for the upgrade guys, but I fail to see what was wrong with the old software.

Well, let's begin counting, shall we?

1. "Send Private" didn't work.
2. "New" marks were buggy, especially when they involved posts you'd just made.
3. Attachments didn't work (anyone test them on the new BBS yet?).
4. Less secure (some of the upgrades have been security patches).
5. Didn't have a spell checker.

I could go on... but the most important thing is that we want the BBS to continue going strong when the Mark2's are released and the user base increases in size. For that to happen, you want the latest bug-fixed version of the BBS software and the support that comes with it.

Tony Fabris (http://www.jps.net/tfabris)
Empeg #144

I finally got through with paypal.

Payment Sent






EMAIL:


m**@***.***.edu

DATE:

TIME:
05/17/00

14:30:59

SUBJECT:


Empeg BBS Fund

STATUS:

AMOUNT:
Completed

-$10.00






-Waiting to replace the hole in my truck with a Mark2

Payment Sent

NAME:
Mark Rahmani

EMAIL:
[email protected]

DATE: TIME:
05/17/00 22:09:38

SUBJECT:
Empeg BBS Payment

NOTE:
This is from Corby!

STATUS: AMOUNT:
Completed -$10.00

Uh oh, I saw the "new" bug appear on this version as well. From thread top level view, I noticed not all the new messages were "color" marked by the icon... uh oh.

Ok Tony's been begging for someone to try an attachment. Here goes!

Darn, the attachment did not work!

Calvin

...Actually, we're over the mark.. We're up to $95 from paypal, with a couple of snail mail's on the way as well... I'll post a message of who actually donated what as soon as I get a chance to connect real names w/ bbs names:)
-mark


...proud to have one of the first Mark I units

Thanks for the upgrade guys, but I fail to see what was wrong with the old software.

---

I think there's alot of upgrades on the backend as well that we don't necessarily see but will make Paul's life alot easier... It's supported, which means security patches, upgrades, etc... It supports moderators, which aren't necessary now but may be needed as we get more users, etc... Also I think it can show better statistics in this version then the free version...
-mark


...proud to have one of the first Mark I units

tfabris - 5$, 5$ referral bonus
stan - $10
Tanstaafl - $20
Dredd - $10
Scoco - $10
BillB - $10
Bmihulka - $10
Corby - $10, $5 referral bonus
dionysus - $10

Subtotal: $105

---

Snail Mail:
Xavier - $20
Henno (directly to PaulH) - $15
Subtotal: $35
Total: $140

I'll send a check to Paul with the balance that I received as soon as he emails me his address:) It's over the $100 promissed, but it's not enough for the amount of work that he's put into this.. Also, (at the risk of sounding redundant) I think the fact that we could pledge money, then actually follow-through with it after the upgrade had already been performed proves that we're a better BBS. :)

-mark

...proud to have one of the first Mark I units

Since we're over the mark, it occurs to me that wwwthreads has pay-support contracts. I think they're yearly. How much were they? Paul could buy an additional year of support or something.

Or he could just take his S.O. out to dinner.

Tony Fabris (http://www.jps.net/tfabris)
Empeg #144

Well, [censored].

Okay, PaulH... If you're listening... can we cash in on that support and see why attachments still aren't working?

Tony Fabris (http://www.jps.net/tfabris)
Empeg #144

yeah; there's a couple of features that should be turned off... THAT one, and the anonymous postings if you ask me..
-mark

...proud to have one of the first Mark I units

Yeah,... anonymous bugs me as well (turned that off in after about two days on my wwwthreads install).

PaulH: To disable anonymous, remove "Guest" from every board's "Write access" list. To disable the badwordfilter, change ./filters/badwords and just make it one line of something like "Thiswillneverappearmyxlpltzk", and poof, [Censored] disappears.

d

A curse word filter? This isn't a board where people will have their sensibilities damaged, away with it.


Hmm.. a thought has occurred to me, what is Paul as a joke, made the word "empeg" a bad word for the filter. Then there will be [censored] everywhere. :)

Calvin

Reminds me of a celebrity chat transcript I saw. I think it was Penn Jillette on AOL, who was typing up answers to fan questions in a celebrity chat. Or maybe it was someone else. Anyway, it was hilarious when he let slip a small expletive, and discovered that some of his words were being censored. He started deliberately trying different words in his responses to see what would and wouldn't be censored.

Then there's the time that Douglas Adams had the "F" word censored out of one of his novels for the American edition printing. He replaced the word with "Belgium", then wrote a two-page footnote explaining why "Belgium" was a horrendous insult to most of the rest of the galaxy, and that us backwards Earth folk were blissfully using it in everyday conversation.

Then there's what George Carlin said oh-so-many years ago: There's no such thing as bad words, just bad intentions.

Tony Fabris (http://www.jps.net/tfabris)
Empeg #144

FYI - I'm sending a check today to Paul for $135 - this includes Xavier's 20$ pledge that I recevied in snail mail, as well as a last minute donation through paypal from Dearing...

Also, Henno has said that he's going to snail-mail a check for $15 eqiv. directly to Paul, so that's $150 total
-mark



...proud to have one of the first Mark I units

as well as a last minute donation
through paypal from Dearing...

Good, I'm glad you got it.

_~= Dearing =~_
"WAY too happy about having #99."

Dredd wrote:
...just make it one line of something like "Thiswillneverappearmyxlpltzk",...

Are you sure you spelled mytzlplxzk correctly there?


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