Subj : Re: Running a BBS
To   : Nightfox
From : Nick Mackechnie
Date : Tue Jul 25 2023 09:03 am

 >  Re: Re: Running a BBS
 >  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Commodore Clifford on Wed Jul 12 2023 09:56 am
 >
 > PF> One thing I didn't do was spend a lot of time getting my BBS ready for
 > PF> callers. I made a really cheezy ANSI login screen, a random mailer text
 > PF> message (displayed before you got the "hit esc twice for the BBS"
 >message)
 > PF> and changed the new user screens, then went live. I figured I'd have
 >time
 > PF> to tweak as I go, and as the BBS started to take shape. Back then, the
 > PF> users helped shape the personality of the BBS.
 >
 >Back in the 90s, and also when I set up my current BBS, I wanted to
 >customize it at least a bit before I had it go live.  I didn't want to have
 >users be put off by seeing a relatively stock BBS and only call once.  I
 >always tweak as I go, but I wanted at least my menus to be customized the
 >way I wanted and have some doors & files available when I made my BBS go
 >live.
 >

I'm the same Nightfox, back in the day, All Searchlight BBS's looked the
same, now I'm pretty much the last man standing with software from 1999 :-)

Nick

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