Subj : What I Don't Like About Synchronet
To : Ryan de Laplante
From : Mvan Le
Date : Thu May 03 2007 07:09 am
ML> As of v3.14, there're a couple of things I don't
ML> like about Synchronet.
ML> Mainly its message reading functionality. Thus
RdL> far this is my critique,
RdL> Yes I agree, I don't particularly like it either.
Man did you write How To Win Friends And Influence People ? or was that Dale
Carnagie ... :)
[...]
RdL> Thanks. You know back in the 90's when everyone was telling me I should
RdL> be using Telegard, PC Board, or whatever.. I never
RdL> switched. I was the only Maximus BBS in our county
RdL> for a long time and spread the word. A few people
RdL> tried it but it was too hard for them. In 2003 when I broguht my bbs
Yeah. Maximus is for massochists - like people who use Unix and love reading
man pages all day. My *.ctl files are full of notes & anecdotes. Can't do that
with PC Board / Telegard / RA.
RdL> back to life I insisted on keeping it Maximus, or not
RdL> opening it again. I gave the new Linux maximus a try
RdL> but it wasn't usable so I waited it out.... for 4
RdL> YEARS. Read the MUFFIN archives, you'll see my posts have always asked
RdL> about supporting DOS doors. How much longer am I
RdL> supposed to wait to get Maximus running in Linux with
RdL> DOS doors? As you have seen I have explorered
I don't think there'll be any major Maximus developments for another 10 years.
RdL> alternatives such as running the entire Maximus system
RdL> inside of dosbox or dosemu. I don't want to switch,
RdL> but I'm not waiting another 4 years. I think you even
I don't understand why you can't run it in VMware. All DOS stuff will have to
run in VM eventually - DOSBOX, DOSEMU, Ntvdm ... Because your primary concern
is with doors, and most of them are DOS doors; you're only delaying the
inevitable. It won't matter whether you run your BBS under Linux or Solaris
unless those doors are cross-compiled to other platforms there'll be qwerks or
disfunction.
Most BBS's run under Win32 or Microsoft derivative because these platforms and
OS's were the most popular during the BBS era. I've seen no serious gaming or
door variety under *nix ports of BBS software, and SysOps that choose to host a
BBS under *nix have skeleton setups and run them for novel reasons like making
use of an old 386 running Debian etc.
--- Maximus/2 3.01
* Origin: Top Hat 2 BBS (1:343/41)
