Linda Hargraves wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 LH>    It still seems a bit too much for me.  It is so easy to just 
 LH> do silt max without needing any switches. 

Yeah,  well,  it's *only* needed if you are still running utilities or
other stuff that needs the old-style files.  I kind of like the idea, 
myself,  as it means you don't have files cluttering up your disk if you
don't need them, but you still have the option to generate them if you _do_
need them for something.

 LH> Maybe I should just join the others and quit bbsing altogether. 
 LH> This is why I have major problems with the way software authors 
 LH> write their programs.

I saw your comment in the previous message about users supporting their
authors and such stuff,  too.  I don't know about you,  but Scott hasn't
gotten a nickel from me,  and one of the real attractions of Maximus to me
_is_ the fact that it's free.  In spite of this,  emailed/netmailed
questions get answered,  suggestions get considered,  if not outright
accepted,  and I sure as heck can't see any basis for complaint.

It's a hell of a flexible bbs package,  one that I can see as being able to
do darn near anything you might want it to,  with an investment of some
time and effort.  I appreciate the work that goes into making such a
product,  from the programmer's perspective,  and expect,  as a sysop,  to
have to make such an investment of time and effort.  There are also sysops
out there who don't care to make such an investment,  and when you look at
their boards,  it shows.  They're also the ones that spend big money on
commercial packages,  which never quite seem to have all of the bugs out of
them.

You "have major problems with the way software authors write their
programs"? How much programming have you done,  then?  Think you can
do a better job?  Feel free...

email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf{at}frackit.com 
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