Hello, Matt.

Wednesday April 07 2010 at 19:02, you wrote to me:

 MM> I know many people are lazy to configure their systems, not evreyone
 MM> is a programmer or knows how to script. Heck I would even like to see
 MM> stuff like menu packs and language file modifications be done so it
 MM> would not be a Clone BBS. I do realize people dont want to see a clone
 MM> bbs and being unique does help get callers.

I compiled a version of WWIV that was done in 1986(!) and it works believe
it or not. :)  I am in the process of trying to hunt down two commercial
libraries needed to compile Shotgun (both of which are no longer available,
so this may be fruitless).  If I could get SG to compile, I know enough
about SG, its innards and how its author's thought process worked to
actually try to maintain it a bit.  I'd rip out the SVGA stuff since it
doesn't work properly over telnet, but other than that, I'd leave it like
it is.

Concerning the customization, it's all about how much you care about the board.

I've been accused of "not caring" about my board because I don't
customize the hell out of it, but unlike a lot of the 'l33t boards, I have
real callers that want actual content in their BBS time, so I do what I
can.  My point was that it seems to be a cancer in the Synchronet niche to
have stock boards.  It's an open secret, I guess, and I know I'm certainly
not the only one who thinks that way.  I just don't want a new BBS user to
get on some stock board, think it's ugly or something and never call any
BBS back.

It's kinda weird that several people have approached me and asked me to
write my own BBS software, but I just don't have the time to write
something completely new, so I just recycle someone else's code. :)

Later,
Sean

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