Hello, Matt.

Wednesday April 07 2010 at 01:19, you wrote to All:

 MM> I was thinking about going back to WWIV, but I would be in a world of
 MM> hurt if I did. Most of the developers are M.I.A, and their boards are
 MM> gone by now.

That's funny you mention WWIV.  I happen to know WWIV's owner and
developer, Dean Nash, personally.  He and I are both ham radio operators
and are involved in ham-related activities quite often.  There's actually
several large WWIV boards out there (Eagle's Nest comes to mind) if you'd
look.

 MM> The fidonet tosser doesnt really support binkley outbounds, and
 MM> wwiv's qwk door doesnt work well with wwiv's windows port.

That is why WWIV is open-source, Matt - for other people to fix WWIV to how
they want it.  So instead of bitching about it, do something about it.

I have a WWIV sysop, Eli Sanford, who pulls a Micronet feed down via NNTP
just fine and he's pretty reliable about it too.

 MM> I guess we're fortunate for synchronet.

There's a hell of a lot more BBS software out there than Synchronet, but to
hear sysops these days, they couldn't tell you the difference between sh-t
and Shinola.  Most sysops are too lazy to actually try something different
than what everyone else is using, so they just become part of the crowd and
run the flavor of the day...and what's worse is most of them can't even
figure out how to run Synchronet properly let alone make the board their
own instead of running the damn thing completely stock.

So, no, in some ways we're not fortunate for Synchronet.

Later,
Sean

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