MG Enthusiast site

[rick_ingram]

I've been unable to log onto the MG Enthusiasts BBS for a couple of days....times out on me....anyone else having this same difficulty?

Just curious.

 

[Steve_S]

I was on yesterday but it's been down all day today.

 

[rick_ingram]

Thanks!

 

[DrEntropy]

You thank Steve fer crashin' another website just then, Rick?!?!


wow.

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[rick_ingram]

You thank Steve fer crashin' another website just then, Rick?!?!


wow.

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Wait a minute....ANOTHER website?!?! Just how many has he crashed?!?!?!?!?!?!

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[DrEntropy]

Oh, WAIT!!

He had ~NOTHIN' to do wifit!!

REALLY.

 

[Steve_S]

Hey, I didn't do nuffin to no-buddy!

 

[David_DuBois]

The MG Cars Enthusiast's club site is up and running, not so the BBS. Perhaps the BBS is hosted in one of those parts of England that is presently under water.
Cheers,

 

[Steve_S]

Earlier the entire site was down.

 

[DrEntropy]

If any of BT's infrastructure is in "Glouster" it's FUBAR by now.
It's terrible. Tragic. Those folk are losing everything they have.

...I don't mean BT.

 

[tony barnhill]

The software that runs that site is so old there's no longer any support for it...I've been waiting for it to die for a long time now.

 

[Steve_S]

Software doesn't get old and die. So long as people continue to use it, the site will remain. Despite the software older than M.G. itself, it is still one of the most useful resources for our cars on the web. It just needs to be restructured and updated... desperately. It will never happen though.

 

[rick_ingram]

Software doesn't get old and die. So long as people continue to use it, the site will remain. Despite the software older than M.G. itself, it is still one of the most useful resources for our cars on the web. It just needs to be restructured and updated... desperately. It will never happen though.

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Totally concur!

 

[jjbunn]

Which site is being referred to here?

 

[rick_ingram]

Which site is being referred to here?

https://www2.mgcars.org.uk/cgi-bin/gen5?runprog=mgbbs

 

[DrEntropy]

It's a fancy version (browser readable) of a newsgroup. Free-for-all zoo if not governed. Looks as if it's back up now.

I shouldn't have but I segue'd a thread there. <shrug>

 

[Steve_S]

It's the same as any other forum but limited in features because the software is so old. They just now added the ability to post images, but you still can't display them in-line. No smart tags, no html, etc.

 

[DrEntropy]

But kinda "modern" if you cut yer teeth on newsgroups. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

 

[Nunyas]

yeah... however, there are Newsgroup readers out there that'll display the images for ya these days /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

 

[DrEntropy]

Yeah, I remember cutting/pasting multi-part MIME files together and bein' ASTOUNDED. Now it's in line, so-to-speak. meh.

Agent and Pan here now... but not too interested in stickin' me nose in the froups anymore.