Subj : Re: Mystic BBS To : Carl Austin Bennett From : Michael Grant Date : Wed May 16 2001 05:30 pm CA> If you're running the sort of message bases that go Squish under your CA> hooves, the upgrade is worthwhile. Got it, and happily posting under it... CA> At least it has my Mystic penguin happily quacking away... quack quack QWK CA> MG> It's much ado about nothing; just as is Dale's obsession with every CA> MG> message needing in his view to have 100% correct MSGIDs. CA> CA> The MSGIDs are 100% correct. James fixed that one, Michael. Good... maybe now Dale won't have to stay up late reading my Mystic BBS messages that were getting caught in his "neat and stricter" traps before. CA> MG> Although written from scratch, Mystic was largely structured around CA> MG> Renegade BBS. Renegade was originally a hack of Telegard; and all are CA> MG> also similar structure to Remote Access. CA> CA> Never tried Renegade here; I'd always been a Maxim00se critter all the way CA> back to the day I first put this BBS online in 1993. Unfortunately, the CA> moose who created that one (a local lad who's long since migrated) has bee CA> too swamped with work to release source code so there's no penguin version I liked Maximus a lot, but sadly it got left too far behind. Had Scott Dudley been able to continue it's development, I feel it could have been one of the premier packages today; it certainly could have given Wildcat! a run for it's money in the Telnet/Web interface arena. CA> All that waiting with bated breath for a Maximoose/LNX gives a moose CA> is a strong need for Listerm00se, the mouthwash for the modern moose. Nothing worse than a Moose with baited breath.. GRONK! CA> MG> I've tried all of the above and several other RA & Renegade compatible CA> MG> packages, and I found Mystic to be the most flexible and easiest to cu CA> MG> which was what I was mainly looking for in a BBS. CA> CA> I was looking mostly for a way to keep my existing Squish bases after movi CA> to Linux; Yeah, I've done /way/ more customization to my Mystic package than you have. I put in a lot of hours getting it the way I wanted it even before I dropped Maximus. CA> Husky makes a good tosser and a sysop message editor, but a Squi CA> aware non-commercial BBS package under Linux is a very rare find indeed. I know; I looked around before, the last time I ran Linux. Mystic/LNX was still in the early testing phase then. The lack of good BBS packages was the main factor in my dropping Linux at the time. CA> MG> None of the bugs cause any major problems for others in this network CA> MG> so I see no reason for people to obsess over them and critisize someon CA> CA> Only major bug is a size limitation on Squish bases; if James is running CA> using the Just Another Moose format, he doesn't get to see how his code ca CA> be swamped if someone were to throw a year's worth of FILK at it in Squish I can live with a 5000 message limit per base. Some can't, I suppose... CA> CAB> I believe MOOSEID/REPLY were on the list of items that'd been address CA> CAB> in 1.07.3, although I haven't set up any neat and stricter traps to CA> CAB> test this. CA> CA> MG> Thank goodness for that! CA> CA> In any case, the MOOSEID is up there between the antlers of each moosage, CA> but REPLY is still missing for SquishyBog critters. Still, it's always goo CA> to have MOOSEID to avoid being just another anonymoose swamp critter. And to avoid the moosage-hunter's traps... CA> I haven't checked Jim Howarth's swamp at telnet://clockworkorangebbs.org CA> to see if he's tried the new version, but it should go well with toast CA> and JAM Around late July, August, there might be yet one more Mystic BBS available online via telnet... ;) --- Mystic BBS v1.07.3 (DOS) * Origin: MikE'S MaDHousE -- WelComE to the AsYluM! (1:134/11) .