Re: TBBS   
     By: James Coyle to Eric Oulashin on Thu May 12 2016 21:20:16   
      
    EO>> "next" through each message.  I used BBSes quite a bit in the 90s,   
    EO>> though I don't remember if most BBS packages worked like that;   
    EO>> however, Synchronet's   
      
    JC> It is pretty much the standard way to read messages, used by just about   
    JC> every BBS not just Synchronet. I think Mystic and one called WME were the   
    JC> only software I ever saw back in the 90s that provided an alternative to   
    JC> the traditional message reading, like you're describing.   
      
    JC> There were hardware and bandwidth limitations that made it much trickier   
    JC> to do back then, but I also think people creating these interfaces maybe   
    JC> just didn't have the vision to make something different either.   
      
   My inspiration for having a message list and choosing a message to read mainly   
   came from newsgroup and email readers (such as Forte Agent, etc.).   
      
   Eric   
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