Hello, Matt.

Saturday February 19 2011 at 15:06, you wrote to All:

 MM> For transportation of fidonet packets, I think a program that merged
 MM> Internet Rex with D'Bridge together in an interface like Synchronet's
 MM> control pannel would be a winner.

There's plenty of software that already does that, but once again, you seem
to have your head in the clouds and not realize that your future already
exists if you bother to look for it.

 MM> Porting syncterm or multimail to platforms such as Android might help
 MM> with getting more people to access the sites.

Android was not designed for use with a text-based interface in mind. 
BBSes wouldn't scale very well to that and quite frankly, I don't know if
I'd want some Joe Schmuck who knows only how to point and click try to deal
with something that doesn't give him instant gratification.

Simply put, Matt, 90% of the people using computers these days are too damn
stupid to figure out how to use a BBS.  They have been dumbed down so much
that if they can't click on it, they can't use it.  I don't know about you,
but I have better things to do than to hold users' hands all the time
trying to help them to figure out the obvious.

As I've told you before, if you want to move BBS technology along, you'll
have to do it yourself.  There is no money in BBSing and that is why no one
is making any advances in the technology.

Then again, it HAS worked for a quarter-century now, so why fix it if it
ain't broke?  Seems you've caught the Microsoft bug on that one.

Later,
Sean

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