Re: php software
  By: Philip Lozier to Scott Adams on Sat Dec 24 2005 05:24 pm

 >  RS>> "It" (TG) doesn't support Telnet any more than
RG, RA, or any other
 >  RS>> crappy 16-bit BBS software does. Sure, you can use a 3rd
party FOSSIL
 >  RS>> driver (like SyncFOSS or NETFOSS for Windows or Ray
Gwinn's VMODEM/SIO
 >  RS>> for OS/2) to kludge the BBS softare into thinking it's talking to a
 >  RS>> serial port/modem, but that doesn't make TG "support
Telnet" any more
 >  RS>> than any other software for those platforms.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >  SA>         bad.  We can flame your software but we don't lower
 >  SA> ourselves
 >  SA>         like that.
 > 
 > I can... and it's not lowering myself to bust the ego of somebody like that 
 > will flame other software where such an ego is not justified.
 > 
 > I have evaluated, many times, Synch... despite all of its boasted about IP
 > capabilities, as a BBS software it is crap.  No REAL SysOp would run it... o
 > those who want a quick and easy setup so they can say "lookee,
lookee... I r
 > a BBS... sure... it looks almost exactly like every other BBS that runs my
 > crappy software and I can't do much about that, but it's a BBS!"
 Moral of t
 > story... if you've seen one crappy Synch BBS, you've seen them all!  Those w
 > don;t think so, telnet into a bunch of them... the originality of the setups
 > like the difference between green and green.
 > 
 > The inter BBS chat?  Yougoittabekiddinme... what crap.

Compared with what?

 > Those 16 bit BBS programs that use crappy kludges like SyncFos??? Um... wher
 > did that crappy thing come from?  I prefer NetFos myself.

Fine, use NetFoss.

 > Proprietary message bases

Wrong.

 > dependant on the internal scanner/tosser...

Wrong.

 > crap, crap, crap.

It seems you missed some facts during your "many evaluations".

 > The Fidonet setup... the crapiest I've ever seen... also understand there ar
 > FTSC conflicts with some items.

Wrong.

 > The customization abilities (going back to green to green comparison) are a
 > joke and a half... they are minimal at the best and a dog to work with.
 > 
 > Much more that I can't even recall, but there is more.
 > 
 > The final conclusion... if one wants to be a lazy SysOp and just have
an "on
 > the fly" out of the box system that looks like everybody elses,
that nearly
 > requires a degree in rocket science to personalize to a reasonable level, th
 > by all means choose Synchronet... have all your supposed INet bells and
 > whistles on a crappy system, or choose a real 32bit BBS software like EleBBS
 > or go with a good old 16bit BBS software like ProBoard (back in development,
 > 32bit version in the process, rights bought from TeleGrafix
 > --http://proboardbbs.com---),
 > TG, Renegade, or any one of the real board softwares of the golden days out
 > there with GameSrv
 > as your telnet server... I guarantee the SysOp will get more personal
 > satisfaction that way.

Your opinions are welcome, but your misinformation is not.

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