Subj : New user/SysOp (again)
To   : ispyhumanfly
From : Frank
Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 06:07 pm

  Re: Re: Let us pray......
  By: ispyhumanfly to Raid on Mon Aug 15 2005 06:41 pm

 > yeah we all started that way... and right now your thinking about running a
 > board... and if your not now you will in a few days once you find out how ea
 > it is to install synchronet and run a stock bbs like the rest of the clowns
 > dove-net

   I just came stumbling in here a few months ago both as a new user and a
   new sysop. I hadn't fooled with a BBS since the mid 80s so I missed the 
   whole PC bbs explosion that was under way at that time and boomed after
   I quit.

   I had been wanting to get back in for some time. Some friends and I talked
   a lot over the past winter how it would be cool to put a BBS back up mainly
   because winter closes you in and it would be cool to fool with again.

   I bought a copy of PC Board off ebay and while reading up on it I found
   Synchronet. I tossed the PC Board software off to the side and never 
   looked back.

   Synchronet may be easy to install but to get it working up to all it's
   capabilities is over my head. I run the telnet 16 bit side of it and
   a HTML server on another machine to hand off to it. This is partly
   because I'm so weak on the new stuff and the 32 bit side of Synchronet
   steps into the internet world and I don't care for the snooping hack
   attempts I get when I run it.

   Of ALL the time I have been on the internet, IT HAS NEVER came close to
   the enjoyment we had on our old computers and a BBS with 2400 baud modems.

   Syncronet and Dove-Net are performing two important functions as I see it.
   Helping SysOps who have been hanging on for a very long time keep interest
   and giving old SysOp a chance to get back in.

   If you care anything about BBSing, How can you find fault with this?


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 þ Synchronet þ The Dark Castle BBS - thedarkcastle.net - Elkhorn City,KY SysOp: Frank

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