Subj : Re: Man ....
To   : Jas Hud
From : Atreyu
Date : Sat Mar 12 2022 04:14:57

On 11 Mar 22  19:37:42, Jas Hud said the following to Atreyu:

A> But of course... its never Synchronet's fault, its always "the settings".
JH> 
JH> what usually happens is there's enough data in there that the crc check don
JH> detect it as a dupe. you can modify that.
JH> 
JH> it is absolutely the fault of the sysop sending dupes, though.
JH> i had synchronet bbses hooked up to multiple  networks including fidonet an
JH> never sent dupes.  this was on multiple bbses using internet rex and radius
JH> and other software.

Synchronet is not designed for the newcomer average Sysop. Its meant for
autistic savants who can count cards or tell me that 247 toothpicks fell 
out of that box. UH OH! 15 minutes till Jeopardy.

Or its meant for a social recluse who grew up in East Texas with a strong
interest in physics who ends up moving west to an apartment building in
Pasedena to work at Caltech, gets a roommate from Princeton, and lives across
the hall from a blonde actress working at the Cheesecake Factory.

Thats the sort of person that enjoys Synchronet.

It just has so many settings and configs, it needs a config for a config. Its 
just wayyyyyy too much. The average Sysop can't get shit working in it without
some level of hand-holding. When something goes wrong, he's usually at a
total loss as to "why".

Now take that bloatware and couple that with the problems of Linux and the
likewise its-never-my-fault insufferable arrogant Linux Sysop crowd and 
multiply this by about a half-dozen of them. A recipe for disaster...

I've seen this first hand for decades now... always "the configs" at fault,
never the software. Yeah right.

Atreyu

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