Hello Eric,

 ER> Hmmm.. Interesting. I just checked out that BBS as you mentioned it, and
 ER> yeah. Plain jane and simple.

Yep, very simple but also very stable.

 ER> I did notice one issue on it though. During registration, you create
 ER> an account, one being a unix account, and then the BBS utilizes that,
 ER> but when choosing a handle... if you happen to try to use the same
 ER> name as your unix account /durint/ registration, it denies it claiming
 ER> a user already exists.. Chose to use none, then logged out and
 ER> back in after the process was complete, went to settings, selecting
 ER> nmy handle, no problems.

I notice something like that too, whenever I log into an MBSE BBS I enter
my handle as Al, but it uses al instead. If I try to change it to Al it
says the username is already in use. I have to change my handle to Joe, log
out and back in and then I can change my handle to Al. MBSE has always been
that way since I have used it. :)

 ER> Looks like MBSE has potential, but without a scripting language....
 ER> That urks me a lot. Back in the day f me BBSing, I actually switched
 ER> FROM Renegade to Telegard, because Telegard had a real(ish) scripting
 ER> language. I had gone from RG->TG->RA because of potential powerful
 ER> customization. The main reason I even went to RA was because the specs
 ER> for using everything from message format to user and file databases,
 ER> were completely open, and I already knew a crap ton of Pascal.. So I
 ER> ended up programming 50% or more of my BBS in my own custom external
 ER> processes that handled everything.

MBSE is an open source project so it can be updated and improved. That
depends on having programmers in the project though, something I can't do
myself.

 ER> I don't want to do that again. That was a VERY heavy BBS for it's day,
 ER> but it /was/ extremely powerful none-the-less. People loved it, which
 ER> is what was important most of all.

Yep, if folks don't like it, no one will want to call.

 ER> Today, I use Synchronet, and likely going to continue doing so, simply
 ER> because it is so powerful yet so simple and lightweight at the same time.
 ER> It has nearly everything, minus the mailer itself, and ticcer, but BinkD
 ER> and htick fill in those two gaps, qico if you want too for ifcico. :)

Yep, I have built and run Synchronet and I do like it. I don't run it
myself because I could never make it look different than other Sync boards
although I'm sure that can be done, plus there are so many Sync boards that
I wanted to run something different.

 ER> And JavaScript, as mentioned before. I've already programmed at least
 ER> one publically distributed mod for Synchronet which is a lightbar
 ER> driven new area scan selector which is ever so wonderfully useful, ans
 ER> I use it myself, especially since I've been adding hundreds of message
 ER> bases on my BBS lately. :)

Yep, I do have that little jewel in my filebase as well.. :)

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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