Subj : Re: New user/SysOp (again
To   : Frank
From : Tracker1
Date : Mon Aug 22 2005 02:43 am

Frank wrote:
> 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?

I don't fault anyone for running their boards how they like them, I do find 
the number of bbses, that don't change any ansi at all a little upsetting, 
from my own memories part of the fun of being a sysop is tweaking your setup, 
getting ansis changed out a bit, and making it look unique.  Aside from that 
my own interests were chat, and messaging.  Most users today seem interested 
in mostly games, which is cool.

I do get a little pissy when someone claims to have a "totally cool new board" 
and you login, and see nothing unique to it, empty local bases, the same nets, 
and the same doors as everyone else for the most part... that's what kinda 
gets me...  I know that this reply wasn't to me, but just jumping in, as I am 
one of those that tends to toot his own horn a bit much, and tends to jump on 
those who claim a cool/modded board, with little or no changes from stock.

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