Subj : What I Don't Like About Synchronet
To : Mvan Le
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Sat May 05 2007 03:43 am
Hello Mvan.
29 Apr 07 03:11, you wrote to Joe Bruchis:
ML> * It lacks some of the user-customisable message searching functions
ML> that Maximus has eg. Browse Msg -> All areas -> List messages (instead
ML> of Read messages) etc.
This is what Baja and ssjs are for. :)
ML> * I don't like the board/sub-board (RA-style group/subgroup)
ML> file/message area categorising method. Traversing the Maximus Usenet
ML> style divisions are a more logical/relational/intuitive breakdown of
ML> message groups & areas. (imo). And the heirarchies can be embedded
ML> deep.
I have to disagree with you here. I disliked the way Maximus handled this. I
like Synchronet's way much better -- very similar to what Wildcat! and
WINServer do.
ML> Anything can be made "highly customisable" if you have source code.
I totally agree. I was about to make the point that if you know how to code in
C/C++ or JavaScript, then you could download the source code and compile in all
these features yourself. That's the beauty of open source!
ML> Hypothetically if I contracted dozens of dedicated
ML> Chinese/Indian/Russian students AUD$5k pa to develop Maximus it would
ML> easily be better than Synchronet. Money is a powerful catalyst.
But thne you would have to release all your source code mods under the GPL or
something like that.
