Subj : Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
To   : NICK ANDRE
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Mon May 09 2022 06:20 pm

> Synchronet also apparently has very advanced scripting capabilities and can be
> tailored to every conceivable fantasy one dreams up. I challenge you to give
> me a scenario where you absolutely MUST have that source code to run a board?

I once had to change the javascript source to get the news program to do
something that IREX did. I did not submit it upstream because I did not know
how at the time.  I also didn't now how to code javascript but was able to
figure it out.

Although I never quite got it working, I was also working on a mod that
would help me not pull thousands of messages from the server when the news
service my ISP had contracted out to mysteriously reset their message
pointers.  That was common enough to cause problems.

If the source was closed, I would not have had the source to the news
program to (try to) make either change.

My ISP stopped offering a news server years ago, so the code (and the
numbering issue) became obsolete.

Mike


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