Hello, Jason.

17 Jan 07 19:11, you wrote to me:

 JH> yeah, but it bites! :D

Why?  Be specific.

 JH> there's a lot of stuff i hate about synchronet, all the useless crap
 JH> that's added now, i wouldnt even touch. i think the web/ftp/email
 JH> servers suck,and
 JH> they choke under the load of everyday use.  i've seen this on several
 JH> systems.

If you knew C, you could work on the original Synchronet source.  It's got
none of the bloat, but all of the goodness.

 JH> take all that out [which you can, since you can disable then all],
 JH> and
 JH> you have a powerful bbs software with 2 powerful programming
 JH> languages.

Maximus has a scripting language (MECCA) and MEX, a true, full-blown
programming language.  MECCA is very nice in its own right, allowing you to
do all sorts of fun things.

 JH> i turned to sycnhronet from more 'elite' style bbs softwares because
 JH> it was obviously a 'survival of the fittest' issue.

I wouldn't call it "survival of the fittest", necessarily (sp?). 
It's "survival of the most popular".  Maximus has been around for
years and still is.  It's just not in the limelight.  There's DOS, OS/2,
Win32 and Linux versions, but not many people know about that.  Heck, I'm
considering tinkering with Maximus's source code to tinker and learn (I
don't know C, but I guess if I'm going to keep going at the rate I am, I
should).

 JH> anyways, you're insane cause you use os2! you wakkadoo!! j/k  :D

I'm far from the only one. :)  I actually have a list of active OS/2 BBSes
(right now, it's just raw data, I have to assemble it into a working list).
There's more around than you might think.

Later,
Sean

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