JS> I still get a kick out of all the fuss over these new
 JS> fangled BBS's out there, I think most of them are still
 JS> trying to cache up to OPUS, and probably most of them never
 JS> will (other than the new OPUS, aka MAX... NOPUS?).  I can
I looked at a few other packages.  I wasn't impressed.  I don't particularly 
like GUI screens and I don't like forcing users to change software just to 
send messages.  (Remember the fuss over RIP?)
 JS> Recently got the free AT&T internet account and the first
 JS> thing I did was turn off the graphics... yuck.  I guess it
The way I tell if an Internet Web site is useful is to access it via Lynx, 
which is a text based browser.  If I can't get any information, or if Lynx 
barfs, the web site is useless.
 JS> would be OK with a 56k connection, but give me OPUS anyday,
 JS> other than being interconnected to every site on earth, I'll
 JS> take the grizzled Fido system.  BTW, I have no clue what the
I have been wondering about an easy way to connect my Opus box to an Internet 
provider, but it has to be _very_ easy to be worth my while.
 JS> in, not the text... equivilant to what would be in a Unix
 JS> shadow file for a password... If I wanna FTP something, I
 JS> get I funky GUI screen... give me the command line and leave
 JS> me alone, is the recurring theme...
I'm told that grizzled UNIX users still use the command line as much as 
possible.
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