Hello Carol Shenkenberger!

** On Tuesday 14.07.26 - 20:28, you wrote to Dave Perrussel:

Carol pretty much just uses this for those connected to her node for
Fidonet traffic. Anyone can post here, of course. But it's mostly used by
us sysops.

*** Diamond Dave ***

Yup, and no objection if others need it for testing too! The official testing echo is useless for that.

FIDOTEST seems pretty active.
But is another one just called TEST, and rarely used.

Is there another one that you mean?

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Yes, I often use it for testing. I had a bad crash while in the hospital due to
severe low sodium, something that has plagued me for decades. It caused something simular to a stroke.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are doing well now!

Unfortunately, I was not aware of how much it messed up my head until later. I
broke the 1:275/100 node badly. I am looking at installing a completely new
box with Mystic and have part of that complete. It's win11 instead of XP.

The holdup is how to make the transition seamless for those who get mail from
me. There aren't many but in fairness, they deserve that.

Same here in that there are not too many. More on othernets than FIDO. A few months back, I migrated the hub over to a different machine. I let the connections know in advance which day I planned to be offline for a while and got the destination machine configured. On the day of, I took everything down, migrated any waiting mail from the old machine to the new, and then brought the new mailer instance online in place of the old one. Then I let the connections know the system was back.

Took some thinking, and wasn't without a few small issues, but that was as seamless as I could think to make it.

Mike

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Re: Re: Testing
By: Mike Powell to Carol Shenkenberger on Wed Jul 15 2026 02:43 pm

Yes, I often use it for testing. I had a bad crash while in the hospital

due to

severe low sodium, something that has plagued me for decades. It caused something simular to a stroke.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are doing well now!

Unfortunately, I was not aware of how much it messed up my head until

later. I

broke the 1:275/100 node badly. I am looking at installing a completely

new

box with Mystic and have part of that complete. It's win11 instead of X

The holdup is how to make the transition seamless for those who get mail

from

me. There aren't many but in fairness, they deserve that.

Same here in that there are not too many. More on othernets than FIDO. A f months back, I migrated the hub over to a different machine. I let the connections know in advance which day I planned to be offline for a while an got the destination machine configured. On the day of, I took everything do migrated any waiting mail from the old machine to the new, and then brought new mailer instance online in place of the old one. Then I let the connecti know the system was back.

Took some thinking, and wasn't without a few small issues, but that was as seamless as I could think to make it.

Mike

Brain's now working at least! Right now I need toget a new feed though.
xxcarol
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Brain's now working at least!

That is always a plus!

Mike

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Re: Re: Testing
By: Mike Powell to Carol Shenkenberger on Wed Jul 15 2026 02:43 pm

Yes, I often use it for testing. I had a bad crash while in the hospital

due to

severe low sodium, something that has plagued me for decades. It caused something simular to a stroke.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are doing well now!

Unfortunately, I was not aware of how much it messed up my head until

later. I

broke the 1:275/100 node badly. I am looking at installing a completely

new

box with Mystic and have part of that complete. It's win11 instead of X

The holdup is how to make the transition seamless for those who get mail

from

me. There aren't many but in fairness, they deserve that.

Same here in that there are not too many. More on othernets than FIDO. A f months back, I migrated the hub over to a different machine. I let the connections know in advance which day I planned to be offline for a while an got the destination machine configured. On the day of, I took everything do migrated any waiting mail from the old machine to the new, and then brought new mailer instance online in place of the old one. Then I let the connecti know the system was back.

Took some thinking, and wasn't without a few small issues, but that was as seamless as I could think to make it.

Mike

I think I have figured it all out. Likely will pull chocks
tomorrow.

xxcarol

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FIDOTEST seems pretty active.
But is another one just called TEST, and rarely used.

Is there another one that you mean?

The one is too busy to find anything and the other didn't get replies when I
used it.

I wonder if there was not a routing glitch with FIDOTEST. I have been seeing traffic in there but I also just received a bunch of automated responses to tests I posted dating back to 2/2024.

Mike

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Hi Mike,

On 2026-07-25 13:41:16, you wrote to Carol Shenkenberger:

The one is too busy to find anything and the other didn't get replies
when I used it.

I wonder if there was not a routing glitch with FIDOTEST. I have been seeing
traffic in there but I also just received a bunch of automated responses to
tests I posted dating back to 2/2024.

That was just a rescan mistake from someone...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hej Wilfred!

That was just a rescan mistake from someone...

A mistake in FIDOTEST!?!? Who would have thunk. ;-)

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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I wonder if there was not a routing glitch with FIDOTEST. I have been seeing
traffic in there but I also just received a bunch of automated responses to
tests I posted dating back to 2/2024.

That was just a rescan mistake from someone...

I realized that later when I saw a large number of old, likely dupe messages in the echo on another system. I guess hpt's dupe checking stopped most of that here as I only saw the ones addressed to me directly.

Mike

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Re: Re: Testing
By: Mike Powell to Carol Shenkenberger on Sat Jul 25 2026 01:41 pm

FIDOTEST seems pretty active.
But is another one just called TEST, and rarely used.

Is there another one that you mean?

The one is too busy to find anything and the other didn't get replies wh

I

used it.

I wonder if there was not a routing glitch with FIDOTEST. I have been seein traffic in there but I also just received a bunch of automated responses to tests I posted dating back to 2/2024.

Mike

Dunno, it was a long time ago I used it last.

xxcarol
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