SA>         bad.  We can flame your software but we don't lower
 SA> ourselves
 SA>         like that.

 PL> I can... and it's not lowering myself to bust the ego of somebody like
 PL> that who will flame other software where such an ego is not justified. 
 PL> I have evaluated, many times, Synch... despite all of its boasted
 PL> about IP capabilities, as a BBS software it is crap.  No REAL SysOp
 PL> would run it... only those who want a quick and easy setup so they can
 PL> say "lookee, lookee... I run a BBS... sure... it looks almost exactly
 PL> like every other BBS that runs my crappy software and I can't do much
 PL> about that, but it's a BBS!"  Moral of the story... if you've seen one
 PL> crappy Synch BBS, you've seen them all!  Those who don;t think so,
 PL> telnet into a bunch of them... the originality of the setups is like
 PL> the difference between green and green. 
 PL> The inter BBS chat?  Yougoittabekiddinme... what crap.

 PL> Those 16 bit BBS programs that use crappy kludges like SyncFos???
 PL> Um... where did that crappy thing come from?  I prefer NetFos myself. 
 PL> Proprietary message bases dependant on the internal scanner/tosser...
 PL> crap, crap, crap. 

 PL> The Fidonet setup... the crapiest I've ever seen... also understand
 PL> there are FTSC conflicts with some items. 
 PL> The customization abilities (going back to green to green comparison)
 PL> are a joke and a half... they are minimal at the best and a dog to
 PL> work with. 
 PL> Much more that I can't even recall, but there is more.

 PL> The final conclusion... if one wants to be a lazy SysOp and just have
 PL> an "on the fly" out of the box system that looks like
everybody elses,
 PL> that nearly requires a degree in rocket science to personalize to a
 PL> reasonable level, then by all means choose Synchronet... have all your
 PL> supposed INet bells and whistles on a crappy system, or choose a real
 PL> 32bit BBS software like EleBBS, or go with a good old 16bit BBS
 PL> software like ProBoard (back in development, 32bit version in the
 PL> process, rights bought from TeleGrafix --http://proboardbbs.com---),
 PL> TG, Renegade, or any one of the real board softwares of the golden
 PL> days out there with GameSrv as your telnet server... I guarantee the
 PL> SysOp will get more personal satisfaction that way.

     At first thought this was another attack.  Then your basically
     agreeing with me.  So good to see it.  Though I don't run Synch.
     Maybe you meant this to someone else.







... Technically, its a "trojan", not a virus, but anyhoo...
--- Fringe BBS