mark lewis wrote in a message to Sean Dennis:

 MK>> In my book it isn't Linux by any stretch of the imagination
 MK>> nor does it appear that it ever will be.

 SD> If someone's got the source code, then why don't they write
 SD> it "native" under Linux?  There's got to be someone out there
 SD> that wants to do it.  Myself, I'm still using Maximus/2 v3.01
 SD> and will probably never need to use an updated version, but
 SD> if someone wants to use it under Linux as a true native
 SD> application, I'm gathering someone can rewrite it.

 ml> the problem is the linux mentality... they don't see a bbs or 
 ml> remote logon as needing any type of visual status screen or ability
 ml> to "spy" on what the users are doing... those two things, at least,
 ml> are just the top of the iceberg...

I would want that ability,  yeah.  Having "snoop" on in Maximus
by default here has given me some pretty good clues as to how I could
improve things.

 ml> they expect a daemon that has no need for visual output and (may?) 
 ml> only write messages to a log...

Not the way I want to deal with stuff,  no.

 ml> they've never been exposed to the things that we old DOS BBS 
 ml> operators have been... things like used trying all kinds of stuff 
 ml> to find "hidden" or broken commands... myself, i appreciate the 
 ml> ability to spy on a user because if he has found a way to the 
 ml> command prompt and is outside the BBS software and into the system 
 ml> proper, i want to know about it and terminate the connection...

The "sysop axed caller" line has shown up in my logs once or
twice here,  yep.

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