Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : boraxman
From : tenser
Date : Thu Apr 14 2022 09:55:39

On 13 Apr 2022 at 10:43p, boraxman pondered and said...
 
 bo>  te> Fixating on the captive BBS experience misses the forest for
 bo>  te> the trees.  The power and flexibility of what you get out of a
 bo>  te> timesharing system is much greater than what you get out of
 bo>  te> any BBS package.  Moreover, it can be customized by the user
 bo>  te> in a way that a BBS never can, and systems can be federated
 bo>  te> using open protocols; don't like the default message editor?
 bo>  te> No problem; just use a different one.
 bo>  te> 
 bo> 
 bo> Agree, I haven't seen comparable software set ups but I'm sure it can be
 bo> made that way.  For me, I would prefer the Timesharing environment, but
 bo> for others, they would be lost, even with an interface.  A lot of people
 bo> really struggle with systems when it doesn't behave exactly as predicted.
 bo> 
 bo> I'd be interested to see this frontend.

Well, login to `newuser@grex.org` via SSH and you can create
an account and check it out.  Let me know what you're username
is, and I'll validate your account and then you can access it
from the shell by typing, `menu`.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
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