Subj : The BBS Documentary
To   : Grymmjack
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Jun 09 2005 04:32 pm

  Re: The BBS Documentary
  By: Grymmjack to Deuce on Thu Jun 09 2005 06:13 am

 >  >  > synchronet to the top by doing so. The glaring omission of this in thi
 >  >  > not only upset me but made me question exactly what kind of statement 
 >  >  > 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 int
 >  > was done, Synchronet was just starting to grow... iirc, it was around 3.1
 >  > release.  At that time, EleBBS, Nexus, Mystic, WWIV, and many more were s
 >  > 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 mos
 > softwares. as i recall the email/ftp/nntp servers were finished at that poin
 > no?

Yes, and more (e.g. gopher, finger, html nodelist, etc.).

 > i didn't see cott lang, or james coyle in it, for example, two other favorit
 > programming genius' :) though because jed was in it, i can forgive that :)

Maybe because they didn't actually write BBS software from scratch? Or is
Mystic really not a Renegade/Telegard/WWIV hack? :-)

                                                  digital man

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