Subj : Re: Old computer
To   : Atreyu
From : Adept
Date : Wed Jul 13 2022 20:03:35

 At> it down my throat about how great their boards are and mine is quaint.
 At> Mystic and Synchronet on Linux are wonderful - except DOS doors don't
 At> work without convoluted nonsense or "doorparty"... I don't want to join
 At> a party.

I'm well behind on messages (again), but I was entertained by this paragraph.

Mostly because I expect that most everything I do with BBSing stuff will
involve some level of convoluted nonsense.

E.g., try changing the order of message bases in Mystic. It makes a certain
amount of sense, and I did not understand how to do it until someone brought
it up in a message.

And, while Mystic and Synchronet make life a _lot_ easier for things like
setting up networks and whatnot (and a variety of things that doubtlessly
were _way_ more of a pain back in 2000), there's generally _something_ that
requires looking up a guide to make it happen.

But I do things like make 80x23 ANSI graphics for fun, and I do enjoy a bit
of coding, so all this seems basically normal.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Storm BBS (21:2/108)

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