Subj : Re: Comparison of BBS Software
To   : g00r00
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Mar 06 2019 16:41:30

  Re: Re: Comparison of BBS Software
  By: g00r00 to halcy0n on Thu Feb 07 2019 08:56 pm

 g0> Mystic specifically tries to not do things that act as a deterrent from
 g0> using the actual terminal BBS, and focuses on the BBS aspect more than
 g0> anything else. The idea is that you're not really using a BBS if you're
 g0> using every other way except the BBS itself to access it.

 g0> (Just some examples)

 g0> Synchronet has a web server that allows you to read/post messages instead
 g0> of logging into the BBS. Mystic has a webserver too, but its point is to

There seems to be multiple ways one could define "the BBS".  With Synchronet,
you can log into the web interface, and at least for posting messages, you are
still logging onto the BBS, just with the web interface rather than the text
interface.  I tend to see the other protocols (web, FTP, NNTP, etc.) simply as
other ways to access the BBS rather than being outside of the BBS.  Whether you
connect via web, FTP, NNTP, etc., you're still connecting to the BBS in some
form (i.e., connecting via NNTP is one way to read and post messages).  I do
tend to prefer the text interface, because that's how BBSes traditionally were
accessed, but the other protocols allow connections that are typically used in
the modern internet age.

I do appreciate that there is other software available that takes a different
approach.  It certainly makes things more interesting.

Nightfox
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