Hello Mike,

What you are suggesting is for sysops to have meetings in secret.
Where only they can play. With nobody else around.

Why is that a problem?

Not everybody agrees with Vladimir Putin. Or with Mike Powell.
But if you adore Putin, and love secrecy, please feel free to move
to Russia. Steven Seagal did. And he loves it.

For Life,
Lee

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Lee Lofaso wrote to Mike Powell <=-

What you are suggesting is for sysops to have meetings in secret.
Where only they can play. With nobody else around.

Why is that a problem?

Not everybody agrees with Vladimir Putin. Or with Mike Powell.
But if you adore Putin, and love secrecy, please feel free to move
to Russia. Steven Seagal did. And he loves it.

Nor apparently with Joe Biden, who also knows that there are some
government things that are not for public consumption. But maybe Lee
Lofaso is more like Donald Trump, who apparently does not understand such things and likes to make trouble. That would make sense.

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Hello Mike,

What you are suggesting is for sysops to have meetings in secret.
Where only they can play. With nobody else around.

Why is that a problem?

Not everybody agrees with Vladimir Putin. Or with Mike Powell.
But if you adore Putin, and love secrecy, please feel free to move
to Russia. Steven Seagal did. And he loves it.

Nor apparently with Joe Biden, who also knows that there are some government things that are not for public consumption.

I do not know about Joe Biden. But there is one thing I do know
about Steven Seagal - he and his film crew love pizza. Especially
pizza made in the French Quarter, on Bourbon Street. Bill Clinton
and Helmut Kohl preferred Café du Monde, where both made pigs of
themselves in public.

But maybe Lee Lofaso is more like Donald Trump, who apparently does not understand such things and likes to make trouble.

The entity known as Lee Lofaso is a figment of somebody's wild
and overactive imagination. The entity that calls itself Donald
Trump is a stable genius that only he himelf truly understands.

That would make sense.

You said it. Not me.

For Life,
Lee

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Lee Lofaso wrote to Mike Powell <=-

But maybe Lee Lofaso is more like Donald Trump, who apparently does not understand such things and likes to make trouble.

The entity known as Lee Lofaso is a figment of somebody's wild
and overactive imagination.

Yes, we all know that, Beeeorn.


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I replaced some fluorescent bulbs recently and found LED tubes - they're the same form factor, but inside are a line of LEDs. They lightg up quickly and don't flicker like fluorescents do.

When I took over the shop, the previous installation had a
series of 8ft-long and 4ft-long fluorescent T12's. When some of
the transformers started to fail after 2 or years of my
occupation, I had all the T12's changed to support T8's. That
was 7 years ago. Now, some of those "new" instant-start
transformers are failing. I am at the point where direct-wire
LED tubes would be a more welcoming solution. But the 8ft-ers
cost about $32 a piece. I would need about 24.

I am not sure if I've seen any other retail space using LED
lighting exclusively.

I've gone through at least a handful of T12 fluorescents, in my
first couple of years of operation, and then even MORE T8's
later on. At about $20 a piece, they could add up.

But the LED variety cost even more.

Which kind did you settle with? Direct-wire types, or the ones
that work with the existing ballast?

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At about $20 a piece, they could add up.

But the LED variety cost even more.

I bought mine (60 cm T8) from AliExpress for about 5 EUR each (free shipping). They were connected so that all I had to do was remove the starter. Removing the ballast is optional.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32797875292.html



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Hello Björn Felten!

** On Thursday 15.12.22 - 01:15, Björn Felten wrote to August Abolins:

I bought mine (60 cm T8) from AliExpress for about 5 EUR each (free shipping). They were connected so that all I had to do was remove the starter. Removing the ballast is optional.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32797875292.html

I thought ballast=starter. So, it looks like you got "direct-
wire" types. That's the way to go.

I'm surprised that those tubes have "holes" for cooling. I
didn't think they would heat up at all.

Mine need to be brighter. I have a 12-14 ft high ceiling.
And I need 4ft and 8ft types.

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Hello Dan,

But maybe Lee Lofaso is more like Donald Trump, who apparently does not
understand such things and likes to make trouble.

The entity known as Lee Lofaso is a figment of somebody's wild
and overactive imagination.

Yes, we all know that, Beeeorn.

Speak for yourself -

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Merry Fucking Christmas,
Lee

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Hello Dale,

The time he was challenged to prove he understood what a BBS was by
logging in to a board, he didn't... he just posted a message from
another stupid NNTP site in Finland. He's never called any other board.
Ever.

I have a record of him posting messages from 3:800/432 -- probability in 2003.

You should check them. Then you will know the truth.

I have posted messages from many lands. But from Finland? That came
later, given the date you mentioned.

It all started in Texas. I was using Frank Vest's system at the time,
having been invited to his board. We were all enjoying a general chat
echo, and then I noticed Frank was posting messages in the Fidonews
echo. It was fun reading, but I had no write access from his board.

I have no idea as to why Frank had it listed as a "read only" echo.
Especially since I had read and write access from other boards.
Including boards in the USA. I simply thought it was an oversight
on his part.

So I asked Frank to grant me write access to the Fidonews echo.
He refused, but not for long as I had other places to do so from.

That is when I started posting messages in the Fidonews echo from
Steve Asher's sytem - in Australia.

It did not take long for Frank Vest to notice. So he decided to
retire as editor of the Fidonews, naming Björn Felten as his choice
to replace him. And then he walked away, shutting down his board.

This act deeply upset Ross Cassell, who never fully recovered.
Has always blamed me. Ever since. For causing Frank Vest to name
Björn Felten as editor of the Fidonews rather than himself.

Not that I had anything to do with it. I mean, Frank Vest was
editor of the Fidonews and free to name his own replacement as
editor. So please. Don't blame me.

But Ross Cassell was not done. He still had dreams of taking over
the echo he has always dreamed would make him "King of Fido".

That is when I set my true plan into action.

I never knew until then I had so much influence over Fidonet sysops.

Go ahead. Check your logs. And then you will know the truth.
The real truth. As to why Ross Cassell left Fidonet.

Well, not entirely my fault. There was one other factor.

The other factor being Wayne Chirnside. He was the one factor
that could (and did) send Ross Cassell totally off the edge.

That's right. One lunatic is bad enough. But two of them, teaming
up together, was just too much for any sysop to handle.

You see, the entity known as Wayne Chirnsde is/was not really a he,
but rather a she. A clinical psychologist, by profession. And she had
a study she was conducting, with one special project - megalomania.

When the basis of her study found out we were both posting messages
from the same board in the land of Oz, it just could not go unanswered.
So Ross sent Steve Asher a bunch of netmails, loaded with obscenities,
showing the Aussie from Adelaide how upset he was.

So Steve Asher did what any other sysop would do. He dropped the
Fidonews echo from his board. And messages continued being posted
in the Fidonews echo. With no restrictions on anybody who wanted
to do so.

Ross Cassell was still upset, and continued to whine. Finding the
same two individuals who were posting from a board in the land of Oz
posting from a different board.

We all know how well that went.

Björn Felten did what any other sysop would do. He reminded the whiner
that a sysop is lord and master of his own board.

Ross Cassell made his exit from Fidonet shortly afterwards.

For Life,
Lee

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On 02-11-23 22:34, Lee Lofaso <=-
spoke to Dale Shipp about Truly Bad Behavior <=-

The time he was challenged to prove he understood what a BBS was by
logging in to a board, he didn't... he just posted a message from
another stupid NNTP site in Finland. He's never called any other board.
Ever.

I have a record of him posting messages from 3:800/432 -- probability in 2003.

This post was made quite a while ago.

You should check them. Then you will know the truth.

I doubt that they would convince anyone, even if I could find them.

Dale Shipp
fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
(1:261/1466)


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Lee Lofaso wrote to Dale Shipp <=-

That's right. One lunatic is bad enough. But two of them, teaming
up together, was just too much for any sysop to handle.

So you are chastising someone for their behavior but then admitting to bad,
and possibly intentional, behavior of your own? Nice.

Björn Felten did what any other sysop would do. He reminded the whiner that a sysop is lord and master of his own board.

I am sure you did.



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Hello Mike,

That's right. One lunatic is bad enough. But two of them, teaming
up together, was just too much for any sysop to handle.

So you are chastising someone for their behavior but then admitting to bad,
and possibly intentional, behavior of your own? Nice.

The "King of Fido" has only himself to blame. Nobody else. Even
if they are fictional characters of somebody else's making.

Björn Felten did what any other sysop would do. He reminded the LL>whiner

that a sysop is lord and master of his own board.

I am sure you did.

The sum of the ASCII values of my name prove exactly who and what
I am (as recorded in Revelation 13:18) -

LEE LOFASO = 666

See what happens when you call 666 ...

For those who are not aware, the devil's hotline is just one
call away, at 666-666-6666. Available day or night ...

For Life,
Lee

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