Hi! Sean,

On Mon, 23 Jan 12, you wrote to me:

SD> Sunday January 22 2012 at 10:21, you wrote to Ed Vance:
 PQ>> :)  This is from a now-defunct BBS called Mystic...

 SD> You do know that Mystic's back under development again, right? :)
 SD> http://www.mysticbbs.com

Oh, no.  Not again.  It's like the 'greatcoats off/greatcoats on' Army thing...

I gave up on it post-2003, when the author farmed the then support echo for
ideas.  Some were provided, with two out of my three ideas totally ignored
in a later alpha release, and, those ideas were just for -basic- BBS
requirements, e.g. one was for the file areas database to be updated
(during maintenance or otherwise) based on changes to files' attributes
being modified during the operation of the BBS.

Example of this: the AllFiles listing still shows a file date of some time
in 2002 (naturally the AllFiles file gets updated every time the TIC tosser
operates), no matter how many times a re-index maintenance is/was/has been
done over the last eight years.  (The same thing didn't happen with an
alpha release.)  Really basic stuff, hey.

I gave up on the website totally after March 2006 when the author
completely ignored any input/feedback other than that from/with a small
circle of dOoD mates, and the whole project seemed to lose sight of the
fact that the Mystic 'notion' was what Fidonet was all about: a FTN BBS.

I gave up on the support echo altogether sometime between February &
August 2011 (and l-o-n-g before that, so had the author), after it started
to be spam-bombed through some internet mailing list/news server.  From
that time on I -had- totally given up on the idea of running any sort of
BBS.

Now, look what you've done.  Another tail-spin, in the pursuit of yet
another 'exercise in futility'?  There are -no- potential users clamouring
for a BBS in this locale.  I simply use the existing configuration to fix
the occasional mailing list posts from a few email users, and, in this
case, to participate in an experiment with Ed.

I should have gone with EleBBS; at least I still understood from the get-go
how RemoteAccess worked (at that time, 2000/2001), and I could have had a
telnet & web-enabled BBS running a decade ago.[thump! to the forehead]

Oh, alright.  I'll go & check the website's contents.  I'm a compulsive
tinkerer...  ;-)

Thanks for the thought.  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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