Subj : The BBS Documentary To : Deuce From : Grymmjack Date : Thu Jun 09 2005 06:13 am > > synchronet to the top by doing so. The glaring omission of this in this D > > 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 interv > 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 stil > around and kicking while Synchronet was still getting back on its feet. yes, but even still, atleast in terms of mystic (one that i am familiar with) synchronet even in that version was still way more 'internet' ready than most softwares. as i recall the email/ftp/nntp servers were finished at that point no? > 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 Synchrone i think mystic is still alive because g00r00 is still around. last i heard, and this was weeks ago, he's seriously working on the 1.08 upgrade kit and releasing 1.08 for once and for all. where it goes from there? i dunno. > has grown a largish number of new features and gobs of new users. Like so m > other things in the BBS world today, the documentary is slightly obsolete wh > it's released. :-) this is true, but it was still frustrating. like, they had people in there who had zero involvement in the scene, even at that time, that were in it for lots of stuff... under what role i guess is questionable, since they were interjecting lots of comments. it's frustrating in that the people who deserved the recognition did not get it. i didn't see cott lang, or james coyle in it, for example, two other favorite programming genius' :) though because jed was in it, i can forgive that :) - grymmjack .