07 Jul 15 11:48, you wrote to All:

 DS> b) Synchronet. While SBBS allows fossil and non-fossil doors, it
 DS> apparently does not like multiple configuration files for a doorgame.
 DS> Yet, some of the doors require the door data in a separate directory
 DS> besides the startup directory, usually in the node directory.

you need to be more specific about this... we have no problems running
doors over here that look in the node directories for the drop files...
there's no real special majic to it... maybe some .bat file variables being
used but generally speaking, the doors that are worth running have no
problems with a multinode environment or being told where to find the drop
files...

 DS> I also personally thought the SBBS website interface was too bland
 DS> (especially compared to VADV32), and the flame wars in many of the
 DS> proprietary Dove-Net echoes turned me off.

you can easily dress up the sbbs web interface... there's a few other
themes available as well as much of the interface stuff can be changed via
javascript...

of all the options, likes, wants and desires you listed, SBBS comes the
closest from what we've seen and worked with... BBBS might be another but i
don't know about operation on winwhatever... mystic might offer some of
those features it doesn't yet have in a future version but that remains to
be seen... WWIV has had a lot of work done with it but we've not looked at
it recently so no real clue what it offers these days... there's also MBSE
that might be interesting but again no clue about winwhatever or all the
capabilities it offers... SBBS has telnet, ssh, web, ftp, rlogin
connectivity capabilities... the interfaces can be modified in any of
numerous ways... javascript, compiled c code, baja... it just depends on
how much work you really want to do and how deep into the guts you really
want to go rather than just dressing up a few screens here and there... we
have a love/hate relationship with SBBS and are still looking at other
packages as time permits... next on the list is BBBS and MBSE but we don't
know which will be first on the table...

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