Subj : RE: Favorite BBS software
To   : Allen Prunty
From : Eric Oulashin
Date : Thu May 12 2016 07:48 am

  Re: RE: Favorite BBS software
  By: Allen Prunty to Eric Oulashin on Thu May 12 2016 00:31:38

 AP> I've always loved Wildcat... and Winserver, although it's expensive, has
 AP> every bell and whistle imaginable. It's a lot more configurable than
 AP> Synchronet... but you don't have the source code. Synchronet is still
 AP> developing their fidonet, but Winserver has all but stoped development of
 AP> it as they considr it a dead technology.

Yeah, I like that Synchronet is still developing in that area.  Also, I think
having the source code can be a mixed bag - Although it can be nice to have, if
you make any customizations for your BBS, you would have to re-apply your
customizations whenever you upgrade to a new version.  That could get tedious,
and it's possible the author could totally change the code so that you would
have to re-think your customizations.

 AP> To be honest, Fidonet could totally be revived if someone would write an
 AP> iPad/Android app that interfaces with a BBS Server.

Several years ago, there was an iOS app I saw called iSSH that actually had
great BBS ANSI emulation (and also did telnet).  I heard iSSH was removed from
the iOS app store though.  Not sure if that's the type of app you meant when
you say "BBS server" though?

Eric
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