Subj : Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
To   : Time Warrior
From : Tracker1
Date : Mon Jun 27 2005 03:00 am

Time Warrior wrote:
>> Perhaps thousands of bbs setups with the same, stock, unmodified setups
>> *could* be wrong?
> 
> The "stock syndrome" ... however, Synchronet boards are hardly the first to 
> have the "lazy / busy / dumb / other reasons here" Sysop problem. Back in the 
> day, the Chicagoland Area MOSTLY used Renegade. Renegade boards with the 
> "default menus" were *EVERYWHERE* ... Those boards typically would either end 
> up with no users left and going down, or -- get nagged to death by the users 
> and the sysop was motivated to at least drawn his or her own basic screens 
> (or go downloaded a pd menu set that even as such, looked ALOT better than 
> the default Renegade Menus).

The most consistantly stock setups I've ever seen in any bbs software was 
Wildcat.. apparently it was configurable, but I think I've seen maybe 2 that 
had any time into it... though as DA points out, a fancy layout with no 
content doesn't mean much of anything in any case.

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