Subj : Re: I moved to Mystic! To : Digital Man From : Gamgee Date : Wed Feb 28 2024 08:45 pm -=> Digital Man wrote to All <=- DM> Re: Re: I moved to Mystic! DM> By: Kurisu to Gamgee on Thu Feb 22 2024 05:45 am > Ga> Is there *any* possibility that this perceived "hostility" was due to > Ga> not following suggested actions and not wanting to bother reading any > Ga> documentation/instructions, because that was too much work? > In this case, no. > > Had I gotten someone saying "?RTFM" and a link to the relevant information, > in any capacity, that would have been a welcome answer, as it would have > actually been helpful. Inststead I was given what can be summed up as a > "people won't care so don't bother" response, which I consider quite > defeatist. > > Given that I could not find the relevant information, in the docs, nor did > anyone point such out that I may have missed, I an only presume the actions > I wished to take are not documented in any meaningful way I could find, > hence why I asked in the the net which is most apt for that software > package. My post was actually my best inferrance on how the process would > work, and I was hoping to get even just a simple "yeah, you got it" or a > "no, you have to do this" but instead got what I got.. > > I should have asked here, or on another net, but given that the network I > inquired in is the "home" of that software, in a sense, it made sense to ask > there. When you combine that kind of reaction to me wanting to create > something with the other abject hostility of a rather unregylated area, and > other minor issues which many people have reported have been ignored, I > decided it was best to go to something else. > > I perhaps could have put a bit more detail on the correlation between the > group and the software, but I felt it was of minimal value -- the better > thing for me to enjoy running a BBS and creating new things was to change > software to a package that I felt would be better for my future goals. DM> If you're like me and curious what this guy was referring to, DM> best I can determine it was this short message thread in DM> SYNC_SYSOPS: https://web.synchro.net/finalthread.txt Yep, this dude's a real wanker. He was given suggestions in echomail and (I think) in the IRC channel as well, but didn't want to bother putting any effort into reading anything (Wiki). > So far it seems I was right about this change, and am enjoying Mystic > greatly. Still has a learning curve but the documentation is better and I've > seen in the past few years on fsxNet how helpful its fan and dev base can > be. DM> I'm glad he found a BBS software 'fan and dev base' and DM> documentation more to his liking. The Mystic BBS software is very DM> good as well. :-) LOL yeah, as long as one likes closed-source software where the author goes missing for months at a time. For a real good time, read this guy's blog here, specifically the first article: https://www.xadara.com/ .... Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it. === MultiMail/Linux v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux * Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (21:2/138) .