Subj : Re: Issue With Message Im
To   : DaiTengu
From : kk4qbn
Date : Wed Oct 14 2026 07:48 pm

  Re: Re: Issue With Message Im
  By: DaiTengu to MRO on Wed Oct 14 2026 11:19:06

DaiTengu wrote:
 D>  MR> what region were you from.  i was in the midwest and synchronet was
 D> really
 D>  MR> not Popular.  I knew of the name because i would see it in file
 D> listings.
 D>  MR> Pay bbses were really not popular during the time i was active in
 D> bbses.
 D>  MR> Like 92+
 D>
 D>  It got somewhat popular in the fox valley area after the largest board
 D> (Flashpoint) swtiched from Proboard to Synchronet around 1994 or so. Before
 D> that, every BBS was ProBoard.

Here in Northwest Georgia and the Chattanooga Metro area, around 93+ Proboard 
was pretty much the prevailing software for most of the Systems, Then Wildcat, 
TriBBS, and PcBoard.

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