Subj : Re: Running a BBS
To   : Nightfox
From : Nick Mackechnie
Date : Tue Jul 25 2023 09:03 am

>  Re: Re: Running a BBS
>  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Commodore Clifford on Wed Jul 12 2023 09:56 am
>
> PF> One thing I didn't do was spend a lot of time getting my BBS ready for
> PF> callers. I made a really cheezy ANSI login screen, a random mailer text
> PF> message (displayed before you got the "hit esc twice for the BBS"
>message)
> PF> and changed the new user screens, then went live. I figured I'd have
>time
> PF> to tweak as I go, and as the BBS started to take shape. Back then, the
> PF> users helped shape the personality of the BBS.
>
>Back in the 90s, and also when I set up my current BBS, I wanted to
>customize it at least a bit before I had it go live.  I didn't want to have
>users be put off by seeing a relatively stock BBS and only call once.  I
>always tweak as I go, but I wanted at least my menus to be customized the
>way I wanted and have some doors & files available when I made my BBS go
>live.
>

I'm the same Nightfox, back in the day, All Searchlight BBS's looked the
same, now I'm pretty much the last man standing with software from 1999 :-)

Nick

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