Subj : Re: Running a BBS
To   : Commodore Clifford
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Jul 12 2023 09:56 am

-=> Commodore Clifford wrote to tassiebob <=-

 CC> 1) You'll never get it set up the way you want it... That's a trap we
 CC> all fall into... there's always something more you'll think of!

I joked that when I got my old DOS dial-up BBS automatically applying
nodediffs, accepting TIC files and sending FREQs, performing message
base maintenance and accepting callers correctly, it was time to shut it
down and move on.

I'm still tweaking my BBS, 32 years later.

One thing I didn't do was spend a lot of time getting my BBS ready for
callers. I made a really cheezy ANSI login screen, a random mailer text
message (displayed before you got the "hit esc twice for the BBS"
message) and changed the new user screens, then went live. I figured I'd
have time to tweak as I go, and as the BBS started to take shape. Back
then, the users helped shape the personality of the BBS.



.... I hear he can kill people with an init string.
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