Subj : Another filearea question
To   : mark lewis
From : Hostile
Date : Sun Jun 10 2007 03:31 am


>  MvanL> My argument would be people started writing and using TCP/IP and
>  MvanL> multithreaded daemons and computer clusters and invented the
>  MvanL> I-n-t-e-r-n-e-t.

> haha... that's not an argument... that's a diversion so that one can exit th
> building and not have to face the discussion at hand ;)

I'll reiterate my point which is - The issues you've presented regarding
"possible" multinode dropfile conflicts are extinct.

>  MvanL> And that's why those large multinode BBS's are extinct and any
>  MvanL> node/dropfile conflict issues are nowadays virtually impossible.

> i disagree... most of them have simply changed faces... many BBS systems are
> now ISPs... a lot of BBS systems have also moved to forum style interfaces..
> don't see any of the goo old BBS doors available in any new formats, though.

I disagree. They haven't merely "changed faces". They adopted entirely new
system processes, methodologies and infrustructure. They stopped using BBS's
to provide the (ISP) services you're describing a long time ago. Such
decisions nowadays are ludicrous except for the BBS hobbyist.

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