Might be a Mac/iOS issue as my messages seem to have the same behavior.
On Mar 15, 2019, at 2:28 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
From: Tony Bogan <thebogans@mac.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Speaking of BBSes... Date: March 15, 2019 at 2:28:39 PM EDT To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>
Eugene, sometime a few months back (perhaps it was late last year) something changed with the list and even my own emails come back to be as a .mime attachment. It did not used to be that way, and I did not change anything on my end. Perhaps my .mac/iCloud service changed something, I do not know.
There are a handful of people on the list whose emails come through as you describe.
Tony
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On Mar 15, 2019, at 2:23 PM, Blake Patterson via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hah, this is great. I hope it does bring the spotlight on BBS of past (and present!). I am active on several boards daily, right now. The one I hit the most frequently is The Level 29 BBS ( bbs.foxxtexx.com ) which is the official BBS of the r/Retrobattlestations subreddit. Stop in (telnet or dial-up)!
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Not trying to get into politics but from the histoical "okay that is crazy..."
It just hit the naws that one of the guys running for president who has been a politician for a while (Beto O'Rourke) was actually a member of cDc, Cult of the Dead Cow. This was a legendary "hacking" group that used to release a lot of t-files. He ran a BBS apparently. cDc held back this knowledge for a while so as to not interfere with his career but he went public with it. A book about cDc is supposed to come out.
A whole lot of people that are not familiar with the old school hacking social groups and BBSes and all of that could potentially start to hear about it depending on how far the guy gets in politics. Could bring a lot of attention to 80s/90s computing and the community around it all.
- Ethan
-- Heisenberg may have slept here.