Subj : The BBS Documentary
To   : Grymmjack
From : Deuce
Date : Wed Jun 08 2005 01:27 pm

  Re: The BBS Documentary
  By: Grymmjack to All on Wed Jun 08 2005 08:46:00

 > Rob, why didn't you appear in the "Death of the BBS" section? Synchronet is
 > the only remaining software (well the only one worthy I feel) that is
 > actually doing what those who appeared in that chapter "said" they were
 > doing/is happening.. I think that your altruism, and selflessness by opening
 > the source and maintaining it for free with the help of your coding
 > companions (deuce/et al), is a great thing and I am not kissing your ass whe
 > I say this, but "synchronet did not get enough credit" ...
 > 
 > Quite frankly if it were not for yourself, the guy who did EleBBS, g00r00
 > (James Coyle / author MysticBBS) and a few other key players, we'd not even
 > have the ability to do this stuff through the internet. While I know that yo
 > guys did not exactly make the COM port emulation through the VXD stuff, you
 > atleast have embraced the new protocols that the internet offers and put
 > synchronet to the top by doing so. The glaring omission of this in this DVD
 > not only upset me but made me question exactly what kind of statement the
 > product was making to who would watch and not know.

At a guess (Ihaven't seen it yet myself) I'd say that at the time the interview
was done, Synchronet was just starting to grow... iirc, it was around 3.10i
release.  At that time, EleBBS, Nexus, Mystic, WWIV, and many more were still
around and kicking while Synchronet was still getting back on its feet.

Of course, *since* then, EleBBS and Nexus have fallen by the wayside, Mystic
may have (nobody is completely convinced one way or the other) and Synchronet
has grown a largish number of new features and gobs of new users.  Like so many
other things in the BBS world today, the documentary is slightly obsolete when
it's released.  :-)

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