Is back up now after a planned power cut.

Best, Paul

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On 01-17-20 19:17, Paul Hayton wrote to All <=-

Is back up now after a planned power cut.

Welcome back. :)


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Is back up now after a planned power cut.

Pay your utilities bill and power will not be cut.

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On 17 Jan 2020 at 02:14p, Ward Dossche pondered and said...

Is back up now after a planned power cut.

Pay your utilities bill and power will not be cut.

Power pole replacement Ward...

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Is back up now after a planned power cut.

Pay your utilities bill and power will not be cut.

Power pole replacement Ward...

What? Power poles? How primitive ...

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On 18 Jan 20 14:09:38, Ward Dossche said the following to Paul Hayton:

Pay your utilities bill and power will not be cut.

Power pole replacement Ward...

What? Power poles? How primitive ...

We have them here too. We get to enjoy them when we are not busy churning butter or caring for the horses that transport our buggy to the town square.

Nick

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Nick Andre wrote to Ward Dossche <=-

Pay your utilities bill and power will not be cut.

Power pole replacement Ward...

What? Power poles? How primitive ...

We have them here too. We get to enjoy them when we are not busy
churning butter or caring for the horses that transport our buggy
to the town square.

I'd love to get out and enjoy them, but I've still got to slop the
hogs and milk the cows before sundown. I taint been to the town
square in nearly a fortnight.



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On 18 Jan 20 13:48:00, Dan Clough said the following to Nick Andre:

We have them here too. We get to enjoy them when we are not busy churning butter or caring for the horses that transport our buggy
to the town square.

I'd love to get out and enjoy them, but I've still got to slop the
hogs and milk the cows before sundown. I taint been to the town
square in nearly a fortnight.

I have these four carcasses I need to haul into Red Rock before the storm...

Nick

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On 18/01/2020 15:09, 2292/854 wrote:

Is back up now after a planned power cut.

Pay your utilities bill and power will not be cut.

Power pole replacement Ward...

What? Power poles? How primitive ...

One as to remember that some places are a tad larger than Belgium. Burying all of the power lines is a rather large task that is still under action.

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What? Power poles? How primitive ...

One as to remember that some places are a tad larger than Belgium.
Burying all of the power lines is a rather large task that is still under action.

So ... sewers are hanging also from poles? Water mains?

No? If these are burried then there's no incentive not to bury power lines ... and phone lines ... and ...

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On 19/01/2020 13:08, 2292/854 wrote:

What? Power poles? How primitive ...

One as to remember that some places are a tad larger than Belgium.
Burying all of the power lines is a rather large task that is still under
action.

So ... sewers are hanging also from poles? Water mains?

No? If these are burried then there's no incentive not to bury power
lines ... and phone lines ... and ...

I think you'll find that much of Australia does not have "sewers" as you know them. Where I live there are no sewers, no piped water.

The unburied power and phone lines date back to before easy burying technology was available. They have continued to maintain the poles and lines since inception as to bury them all now would incur an expense that no-one seems to want to bear.

Much of Australia's road infrastructure is rather shitty too - the country is simply too large for the meagre population to afford better stuff.

Can you drive for 250km along any major highway in Belgium and see no signs of human presence (other than the road you're travelling on)?

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Power pole replacement Ward...

What? Power poles? How primitive ...

Umm You have who for a President? :-)

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Can you drive for 250km along any major highway in Belgium and see no
signs of human presence (other than the road you're travelling on)?

I think it would be hard to drive 250 km along any highway here and not be in at least one other country ... or at the bottom of the sea.

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Power pole replacement Ward...

What? Power poles? How primitive ...

Umm You have who for a President? :-)

The kingdom of Belgium, until further notice, does not have a president ... yet.

Not that we are particularly fond of him, th rulership of the country should not depend upon a specific sperm which swam fater than all the others.

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Re: Re: 3:770/1
By: Ward Dossche to David Drummond on Mon Jan 20 2020 08:03 am

I think it would be hard to drive 250 km along any highway here and not be in at least one other country ... or at the bottom of the sea.

Which is why the America genre of the "road trip" film doesn't map well to European cinema. You could drive two days and still be in Texas!
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Which is why the America genre of the "road trip" film doesn't map well
to European cinema. You could drive two days and still be in Texas!

I've done that in Montana and Alaska, and one time in my life I was unhappily surprised when driving from Missoula MT to NYC.

On the other hand, you can do roadtrips too here ... I can drive to Moscow, Russia while you can drive only to Moscow, Idaho ... :-)

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On 20 Jan 20 21:47:36, Ward Dossche said the following to Kurt Weiske:

I've done that in Montana and Alaska, and one time in my life I was unhappi surprised when driving from Missoula MT to NYC.

Was that in the minivan?

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I've done that in Montana and Alaska, and one time in my life I was

unhappi

surprised when driving from Missoula MT to NYC.

Was that in the minivan?

Yes.

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The kingdom of Belgium, until further notice, does not have a president ...
yet.

Not that we are particularly fond of him, th rulership of the country
should not depend upon a specific sperm which swam fater than all the
others.

My Apologies... I thought you were from the Orange variety :-) At least you have great beer!

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On 01-20-20 10:23, David Drummond wrote to Ward Dossche <=-

I think you'll find that much of Australia does not have "sewers" as
you know them. Where I live there are no sewers, no piped water.

Yep septic systems and tank water are pretty common. :)

The unburied power and phone lines date back to before easy burying technology was available. They have continued to maintain the poles and lines since inception as to bury them all now would incur an expense
that no-one seems to want to bear.

Yeah, new estates often have underground power these days.

Much of Australia's road infrastructure is rather shitty too - the
country is simply too large for the meagre population to afford better stuff.

Yep. :)

Can you drive for 250km along any major highway in Belgium and see no signs of human presence (other than the road you're travelling on)?

Somehow, I think he's run into another country, or water, or anything else other than Belgium. :D I'm 150km from Melbourne, that distance it barely shows on a map of Oz. :)


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On 01-20-20 09:51, Kurt Weiske wrote to Ward Dossche <=-

Which is why the America genre of the "road trip" film doesn't map well
to European cinema. You could drive two days and still be in Texas!

It's a better fit to Australia, except there's too much civilisation in the American version! :D


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Hi! Tony,

On 01/21/2020 11:40 AM, you wrote to David Drummond:

I'm 150km from Melbourne, that distance it
barely shows on a map of Oz. :)

Just down the road a bit. I thought Bendigo was an outer suburb of Melbourne.
;)

Cheers,
Paul.

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The kingdom of Belgium, until further notice, does not have a president ... yet.

Not that we are particularly fond of him, the rulership of the country >should not depend upon a specific sperm which swam faster than all the >others.

My Apologies... I thought you were from the Orange variety :-)

That's a big "Oooops" ... 8-)

At least you have great beer!

Hundreds of different kinds ...

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I think it would be hard to drive 250 km along any highway here and not
be in at least one other country ... or at the bottom of the sea.

Untrue. A certain REC then, RC, now drove 500+Km just to have dinner with a ZC and 500+ back. Still in the same EU country :)

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On Jan 20, 2020 09:59am, Kurt Weiske wrote to Ward Dossche:

Re: Re: 3:770/1
By: Ward Dossche to David Drummond on Mon Jan 20 2020 08:03 am

I think it would be hard to drive 250 km along any highway here and not WD>> be
in at least one other country ... or at the bottom of the sea.

Which is why the America genre of the "road trip" film doesn't map well
to European cinema. You could drive two days and still be in Texas!
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On 01-21-20 15:01, Paul Quinn wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Hi! Tony,

On 01/21/2020 11:40 AM, you wrote to David Drummond:

I'm 150km from Melbourne, that distance it
barely shows on a map of Oz. :)

Just down the road a bit. I thought Bendigo was an outer suburb of Melbourne. ;)

Haha how insulting. :P


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Hi! Tony,

On 01/22/2020 12:11 PM, you wrote:

I'm 150km from Melbourne, that distance it
barely shows on a map of Oz. :)

Just down the road a bit. I thought Bendigo was an outer suburb of
Melbourne. ;)

Haha how insulting. :P

Oh, bummer. I really liked Melbourne, in all of my travels. (It was my favourite town till I found Perth.) There again, I did Melbourne during a -lost- long weekend...

A group of guys from work took me along as a fourth for a 'sports' weekend, on a train trip sampling all the beers from three states to get there. (I wasn't a beer drinker then and still don't care for it, 50 years later.) The lost weekend was a persistent pissy blur.

Cheers,
Paul.

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On 01-22-20 16:52, Paul Quinn wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Just down the road a bit. I thought Bendigo was an outer suburb of
Melbourne. ;)

Haha how insulting. :P

Oh, bummer. I really liked Melbourne, in all of my travels. (It was
my favourite town till I found Perth.) There again, I did Melbourne during a -lost- long weekend...

Haha Melbourne is a good place to visit. I've actually been down the past 2 Sundays for various social things, and will go down again in Febroary. My remark was more along the lines of being called "suburban". :D I left Melbourne in 2010 ans haven't looked back. Lived there for 19 years. At the time it was the right thing to do, but I'm now glad to be out. :)

It's a little under 2 hours to Melbourne by car or train.

A group of guys from work took me along as a fourth for a 'sports' weekend, on a train trip sampling all the beers from three states to
get there. (I wasn't a beer drinker then and still don't care for it,
50 years later.) The lost weekend was a persistent pissy blur.

These days, I don't care much for alcohol in general these days. Just went off it, and dry stretches of months are now the norm for me. :) Oddly enough, the older I get, the more I am involved in sport. :)


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I think it would be hard to drive 250 km along any highway here and PA>WD> not be in at least one other country ... or at the bottom of the sea.

Untrue. A certain REC then, RC, now drove 500+Km just to have dinner with
a ZC and 500+ back. Still in the same EU country :)

That was a memorable event ... I remember the beer too ... :-)

The Saint George Lyccabettus hotel was where we first met ... will never forget
it.

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It's a little under 2 hours to Melbourne by car or train.

2 hours by car in any direction and I'm out of the country ... Netherlands, France, Germany, Luxembourg. 3 hours and I'm in England.

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On 01-22-20 10:05, Ward Dossche wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

It's a little under 2 hours to Melbourne by car or train.

2 hours by car in any direction and I'm out of the country ... Netherlands, France, Germany, Luxembourg. 3 hours and I'm in England.

Here, you can't even drive to all state without getting wet (though the Melbourne to Devonport ferry is funded as a 400km stretch of the "national highway", meaning really good subsidies for putting your car on the ferry.

But going north or west, you can drive for _days_ at highway speeds without reaching the ocean. :)

From here, 2 hours south won't even get you to the coast (that's at least 30 minutes further). 2 hours roughly SE will get you just past the centre of Melbourne. 2 hours east and you're in the foothills below the ski resorts (another couple of hours at least to get to ski). 2 hours north will actually get you to another state (NSW) and in the middle of a featureless plain. 2 hours west and less than halfway to the western state border with South Australia. :)


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On 21/01/2020 16:01, 3640/1384.125 wrote:

 TL>> I'm 150km from Melbourne, that distance it
 TL>> barely shows on a map of Oz. :)

Just down the road a bit.  I thought Bendigo was an outer suburb of Melbourne.  ;)

It is - for certain values of "outer".

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On 22/01/2020 11:05, 2292/854 wrote:

It's a little under 2 hours to Melbourne by car or train.

2 hours by car in any direction and I'm out of the country ... Netherlands, France, Germany, Luxembourg. 3 hours and I'm in England.

And what is the population of Belgium who are paying to maintain/update that infrastructure of the country?

(Yeah, I know I could Google it).

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On 23/01/2020 11:31, 3633/410 wrote:

 WD>> 2 hours by car in any direction and I'm out of the country ...
 WD>> Netherlands, France, Germany, Luxembourg. 3 hours and I'm in England.

Here, you can't even drive to all state without getting wet (though the Melbourne to Devonport ferry is funded as a 400km stretch of the "national highway", meaning really good subsidies for putting your car on the ferry.

But going north or west, you can drive for _days_ at highway speeds

without

reaching the ocean. :)

From here, 2 hours south won't even get you to the coast (that's at least

30

minutes further).  2 hours roughly SE will get you just past the centre

of

Melbourne.  2 hours east and you're in the foothills below the ski

resorts

(another couple of hours at least to get to ski).  2 hours north will

actually

get you to another state (NSW) and in the middle of a featureless plain. 

2

hours west and less than halfway to the western state border with South Australia. :)

Isn't VIC the smallest state in Australia.

Try the above measurements in QLD, or WA...

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2 hours by car in any direction and I'm out of the country ...
Netherlands, France, Germany, Luxembourg. 3 hours and I'm in
England.

And what is the population of Belgium who are paying to maintain/update that infrastructure of the country?

Actually that type of road-infrastructure is a European thing. There is a network of what is called E-highways which stems from a very early EU-decision in the 1950-ies to build a European-wide network for the long-distance transport of goods. It now looks like this ...

https://tinyurl.com/uwddsbf

By staying on the same road you can drive from Lisbon (Portugal) to Malmo (Sweden) and be treated to some of the most wonderful traffic jams in the world.

As especially Belgium is heavy burdened by these roads I'm assuming there must be some kind of a cost-sharing situation between EU-states, but I'm unaware.

8 more days and that map changes.

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Untrue. A certain REC then, RC, now drove 500+Km just to have dinner

with

a ZC and 500+ back. Still in the same EU country :)

That was a memorable event ... I remember the beer too ... :-)

The Saint George Lyccabettus hotel was where we first met ... will never forget it.

I remember the food. I did not drink as I had to drive back same night...

I should visit Brussels sometime this year so we will have one or more of these
famous belgian beers :)

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I remember the food. I did not drink as I had to drive back same night...

I remember the weather was really bad.

There often were issues with your RC, after we met face-to-face we were OK. Not
a single issue anymore.

I should visit Brussels sometime this year so we will have one or more of these famous belgian beers :)

Let me know well in tine. It is possible and Brussels is like 40km.

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On 25 Jan 20 00:49:29, Ward Dossche said the following to Petros Argyrakis:

I should visit Brussels sometime this year so we will have one or more of these famous belgian beers :)

Let me know well in tine. It is possible and Brussels is like 40km.

Yet you make every freaking excuse not to come to Toronto... with offers of horse-piss beer and the largest chicken wings at the most shitty sports bar in town.

Nick

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Hello Kurt!

20 Jan 20 09:51, Kurt Weiske wrote to Ward Dossche:

I think it would be hard to drive 250 km along any highway here and
not be in at least one other country ... or at the bottom of the sea.

Which is why the America genre of the "road trip" film doesn't map
well to European cinema. You could drive two days and still be in
Texas!

Ah, well, the genre may have been invented in the US, but there certainly are European road movies. Probably they don't get much coverage in the US, or are rather "remade" for US viewers than dubbed or brought into the cinemas as original versions.
Anyway, here are a few random examples from Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockin%27_on_Heaven%27s_Door_(1997_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_the_Cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Sharks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_July_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Wants_to_Sea https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/25_km/h https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_gegen_den_Rest_der_Welt


Regards,
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Hello Ward!

20 Jan 20 21:47, Ward Dossche wrote to Kurt Weiske:

On the other hand, you can do roadtrips too here ... I can drive to Moscow, Russia while you can drive only to Moscow, Idaho ... :-)

You can also "downscale" the whole thing by reducing the maximum velocity. Was 25km/h brought into Belgian cinemas (one or two years ago)?


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Hello Ward!

22 Jan 20 10:05, Ward Dossche wrote to Tony Langdon:

2 hours by car in any direction and I'm out of the country ... Netherlands, France, Germany, Luxembourg. 3 hours and I'm in England.

Having so many different countries so close together offers a lot of new opportunities, though.

Ever heard of Jeff Aug? He's holding the official record for performing concerts in more different countries within 24h than anyone else: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-concerts-performed-in- different-countries-in-24-hours/

He is from the US, but of course he couldn't achieve this over there. ;)


Regards,
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Hello Tony and others,

Fri. 17 Jan 2020, 20:35:00, Tony Langdon wrote to Paul Hayton:

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In the eighties there were so many sentences wit "DO IT" in it,
but I cannot find a list with many of them.
One I remember was: surfers DO IT standing up,
but there were many more.
Do you have any idea where I can find a long list of these DO IT sentences? Thanks in advance.

Henri.

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Hello Ward and others,

Sat. 18 Jan 2020, 14:09:38, Ward Dossche wrote to Paul Hayton:

What? Power poles? How primitive ...

Many countries still have them, yours too.

Henri.

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Hello Ward and others,

Fri. 17 Jan 2020, 14:14:11, Ward Dossche wrote to Paul Hayton:

Is back up now after a planned power cut.

Pay your utilities bill and power will not be cut.

Even when paid right, the power can still be cut.
I.e. by Fires and/of floods as in Australia f.i.
Overload somewhere in the net, blown up transformer etc.
And in this case planned works.
(S)he could think of a backup power system, i.e. UPS, generator, sunpanels, windturbine, accumulator and dc-ac inverter etc.
It stands on how important the powerd users are.
The Intensive Care in hospitals for instance, always need continues power.
You do not want the hart-lung machine to stop unplanned etc.

I just changed from internet connection (ADSL2+ to FTTH) at januari 21,
and planned to have a second Pi machine online if necessarry, it was not.
Both lines were active at the same time, so I could easyliy change over.
If not, I could try my mobile 3G link temporarely.
So always take the right actions beforehand,
i.e. a planned shutdown, instead of just cut away the power.
It may happen right 9 times of 10, but then suddenly your disk is broken.
So at least a (tested) backup is ncessarry.

Henri.

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Hello Tony and others,

Tue. 21 Jan 2020, 12:40:00, Tony Langdon wrote to David Drummond:

I think you'll find that much of Australia does not have "sewers" as
you know them. Where I live there are no sewers, no piped water.

Yep septic systems and tank water are pretty common. :)

As is the same at ships.

Yeah, new estates often have underground power these days.

You also could place enough sunpanels and windmills, a storage accumulator,
and a DC= to AC~ inverter and you never need landpower and powerpoles anymore. A wellknown firm in the Almere.Netherlands also produces DC= to AC~ inverters for both the European-, UK, USA and even Australia and NZ-markets, with different Voltages (115/230 Vac~), Frequencies (50/60 Hz) and outlets with earth contact.

Somehow, I think he's run into another country, or water, or anything
else other than Belgium. :D

Yes, from his home in Belgium to mine in NL, you only need 176 km driving.

... I took an IQ test, and the results were negative.

Try again another one.
If that's negative too, you are positive, as 2 x negative is positive ;-).

Henri.

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On 01-26-20 02:48, Henri Derksen wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Do you have any idea where I can find a long list of these DO IT sentences? Thanks in advance.

I remember those, but no I don't know where there's any such lists.

Henri.

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On 01-26-20 03:34, Henri Derksen wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Yep septic systems and tank water are pretty common. :)

As is the same at ships.

:)

Yeah, new estates often have underground power these days.

You also could place enough sunpanels and windmills, a storage accumulator, and a DC= to AC~ inverter and you never need landpower and powerpoles anymore. A wellknown firm in the Almere.Netherlands also produces DC= to AC~ inverters for both the European-, UK, USA and even Australia and NZ-markets, with different Voltages (115/230 Vac~), Frequencies (50/60 Hz) and outlets with earth contact.

True, that would work too.

Somehow, I think he's run into another country, or water, or anything
else other than Belgium. :D

Yes, from his home in Belgium to mine in NL, you only need 176 km
driving.

That's about what I drove to where I am now for the Victorian Country Athletics Championships. Have to make the return trip tomorrow.

... I took an IQ test, and the results were negative.

Try again another one.
If that's negative too, you are positive, as 2 x negative is positive
;-).

Hahaha good one. :)



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Gerrit,

On the other hand, you can do roadtrips too here ... I can drive to GK>WD> Moscow, Russia while you can drive only to Moscow, Idaho ... :-)

You can also "downscale" the whole thing by reducing the maximum
velocity. Was 25km/h brought into Belgian cinemas (one or two years ago)?

I think I don't understand what you're hinting at.

\%/@rd

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On 26 Jan 20 21:29:49, Ward Dossche said the following to Gerrit Kuehn:

You can also "downscale" the whole thing by reducing the maximum
velocity. Was 25km/h brought into Belgian cinemas (one or two years ago)?

I think I don't understand what you're hinting at.

Belgian porn? Two hours of begging?

Nick

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You can also "downscale" the whole thing by reducing the maximum
velocity. Was 25km/h brought into Belgian cinemas (one or two years NA>GK> ago)?

I think I don't understand what you're hinting at.

Belgian porn? Two hours of begging?

Nah ... that's foreplay.

\%/@rd

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Hello Ward!

26 Jan 20 21:29, Ward Dossche wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:

You can also "downscale" the whole thing by reducing the maximum
velocity. Was 25km/h brought into Belgian cinemas (one or two years
ago)?

I think I don't understand what you're hinting at.

A German roadmovie named "25km/h" from 2018 or 2019 (cannot remember exactly) where the main characters used Mofas (top speed: 25km/h) for their trip.


Regards,
Gerrit

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Gerrit,

I think I don't understand what you're hinting at.

A German roadmovie named "25km/h" from 2018 or 2019 (cannot remember exactly) where the main characters used Mofas (top speed: 25km/h) for
their trip.

I don't think such a movie has been released here ...

Just looked-up the theatrical trailer ... it seems like fun.

\%/@rd

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On 27 Jan 2020 at 08:28p, Gerrit Kuehn pondered and said...

You can also "downscale" the whole thing by reducing the maximum
velocity. Was 25km/h brought into Belgian cinemas (one or two years
ago)?

I think I don't understand what you're hinting at.

A German roadmovie named "25km/h" from 2018 or 2019 (cannot remember exactly) where the main characters used Mofas (top speed: 25km/h) for their trip.

I love how this thread became anything but stuff to do with 3:770/1 and yet
the subject remained.. so I'm just creating a new subject so it can turn into something else for a while :)

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Re: Re: Anything But
By: Paul Hayton to Gerrit Kuehn on Tue Jan 28 2020 20:55:25

I love how this thread became anything but stuff to do with 3:770/1 and yet the subject remained.. so I'm just creating a new subject so it can turn into something else for a while :)

Yeah Paul, that's one of my pet peeves. People being to lazy to change the subject line when their post no longer has anything to do with the subject line.

I mean, how hard is it to just add your new subject to the beginning and then putting (was: between the new and old subjects???
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Hi Paul.

28 Jan 20 20:55:24, you wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:

I love how this thread became anything but stuff to do with 3:770/1 and

yet

the subject remained.. so I'm just creating a new subject so it can turn

into

something else for a while :)

Better? ;-)

'Tommi

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Hello Ward!

27 Jan 20 22:54, Ward Dossche wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:

I don't think such a movie has been released here ...
Just looked-up the theatrical trailer ... it seems like fun.

I cannot really tell, I didn't see anything of it beyond the trailers so far, either. But it sure sounded like fun.


Regards,
Gerrit

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I should visit Brussels sometime this year so we will have one or

more of

these famous belgian beers :)

Let me know well in tine. It is possible and Brussels is like 40km.

Will do.

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Hi guys

I have moved the 3:770/1 HUB from FastEcho, Allfix and BinkD across to a combo of HPT, Htick and BinkD. I've also migrated from a Windows system to Linux.

I expect there will be a few wobbles along the way. If you spot anything
amiss please let me know.

Cheers, Paul

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PAUL HAYTON wrote to ALL <=-

Hi guys

I have moved the 3:770/1 HUB from FastEcho, Allfix and BinkD across to
a combo
of HPT, Htick and BinkD. I've also migrated from a Windows system to Linux.

I expect there will be a few wobbles along the way. If you spot
anything amiss please let me know.

Cheers, Paul

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Great work! I'll let you know If I see anything.

Nick
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On 31 Jan 2021 at 08:17p, Nick Mackechnie pondered and said...

Great work! I'll let you know If I see anything.

Nick

Thanks Nick.

It's a been a long time coming.

The feed and files should be status quo and once bedded in I'll seek to
extend the offering.

Just working on getting nodelist compilation sorted now.

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Hi! Paul,

On 31 Jan 21 20:28, you wrote to Nick Mackechnie:

Just working on getting nodelist compilation sorted now.

Are you doing R57 daily segments?

Cheers,
Paul.

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Hi Paul!

31 Jan 2021 19:23, from Paul Hayton -> All:

I have moved the 3:770/1 HUB from FastEcho, Allfix and BinkD across to
a combo of HPT, Htick and BinkD. I've also migrated from a Windows
system to Linux.

What editor are you using?
Anyway ... congratulation!

I expect there will be a few wobbles along the way. If you spot
anything amiss please let me know.

All looks fine!

CU, Ricsi

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On 31 Jan 2021 at 06:03p, Paul Quinn pondered and said...

Just working on getting nodelist compilation sorted now.

Are you doing R57 daily segments?

Not as yet, but give me a few weeks and I may well be :)

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On 31 Jan 2021 at 10:11a, Richard Menedetter pondered and said...

What editor are you using?

None, I'll likely aim to set up GoldEd but first I'm just trying to get the echomail, netmail and file bases working as expected. :)

Anyway ... congratulation!

Thanks :)

All looks fine!

Cheers... I hope that the zone gating / stripping stuff FastEcho did can now be a thing of the past for this system.

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Hello Paul,

@TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46
@MSGID: 3:770/100 afb44019
@REPLY: 2:310/31 60167491
@TZUTC: 1300
On 31 Jan 2021 at 10:11a, Richard Menedetter pondered and said...

What editor are you using?

None, I'll likely aim to set up GoldEd but first I'm just trying to
get the echomail, netmail and file bases working as expected. :)

Anyway ... congratulation!

Thanks :)

All looks fine!

Cheers... I hope that the zone gating / stripping stuff FastEcho did
can now be a thing of the past for this system.

SEEN-BY: 103/705 106/127 124/5016 153/757 154/10 203/0 220/70 221/0 6 226/17
SEEN-BY: 229/101 240/5832 267/800 280/464 5003 5555 292/854 8125
310/31
SEEN-BY: 335/364 340/1000 396/45 423/120 460/58 640/1384 712/848 770/1
100 330
SEEN-BY: 770/340 772/210 220 230 2452/250 4500/1 5019/40 5053/58
@PATH: 770/100 1 280/464 5555 221/6

That's what the path and seen bys look like here. Looks good.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hi Paul!

31 Jan 2021 22:27, from Paul Hayton -> Richard Menedetter:

What editor are you using?

None, I'll likely aim to set up GoldEd but first I'm just trying to
get the echomail, netmail and file bases working as expected. :)

One step after the other ;)

All looks fine!

Cheers... I hope that the zone gating / stripping stuff FastEcho did
can now be a thing of the past for this system.

HPT should handle it better.

CU, Ricsi

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Hi! Paul,

On 31 Jan 2021, Paul Hayton said the following...

Are you doing R57 daily segments?

Not as yet, but give me a few weeks and I may well be :)

Crikey! I've been doing them for R54 since July 2018. In both DOS/Windows & Linux.

Call when you want... whatever,

Cheers,
Paul.

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On 31 Jan 2021 at 08:17p, Nick Mackechnie pondered and said...

Great work! I'll let you know If I see anything.

Folks, apologies. I ran a re-toss process at 3:770/1 and it's sent out some older packets that were unintended. Apologies if I've sent out some dupes.

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Hello Paul!

31 Aug 21 15:52, you wrote to all:

Folks, apologies. I ran a re-toss process at 3:770/1 and it's sent out some older packets that were unintended. Apologies if I've sent out
some dupes.

2665 went into my bad area, some dating back to 2020 (That was a year to remember).
The rest went into the dupe area.... not as many....


Try using the -tooold 60 (Day number) for your config...





Stephen


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On 31 Aug 2021, Paul Hayton said the following...

Folks, apologies. I ran a re-toss process at 3:770/1 and it's sent out some older packets that were unintended. Apologies if I've sent out some

I was wondering. Caught a bunch in my dupes folder that looked like they all came from here. Didn't check the seen-bys or anything as it looked like they were all caught anyway.

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On 31 Aug 2021 at 04:52p, Stephen Walsh pondered and said...

2665 went into my bad area, some dating back to 2020 (That was a year to remember).
The rest went into the dupe area.... not as many....

It was me trying to retoss some packets in BAD that I wanted to retoss but
not realising it would deal to others too :(

I've removed them now out of BAD

Try using the -tooold 60 (Day number) for your config...

Yep use that too - thanks!

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On 31 Aug 2021 at 07:25p, Richard Miles pondered and said...

I was wondering. Caught a bunch in my dupes folder that looked like they all came from here. Didn't check the seen-bys or anything as it looked like they were all caught anyway.

Coolio, thanks Richard :)

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