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|    Jas Hud to T.J. Mcmillen    |
|    Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic    |
|    04 May 22 22:32:37    |
      MSGID: 1:129/305 6c6b8d40       TID: GE 1.2       |03Quoting message from |11T.J. Mcmillen |03to |11Dumas Walker       |03on |114 May 22 16:47|03.              DW> Synchronet. It is open source, you don't have to be a programmer to chang       TM> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       TM>        TM>        TM> Menu Editor :) ANSI files .... the rest is just there for bells and whist       TM> to do what you want. I highly doubt anyone would think of themselves a        TM> programmer to use Mystic.       TM>                      synchronet doesn't have a menu editor because it's not kids stuff like        renegade.              you can do anything you want with it.              all you need is a text editor.              you do               cmdkey x       [command]       end_cmd              any moron can do that. once you're ready you can take it further and it's        pretty easy. i'm not a fan of the javascript because i got involved with it        when it first came out and it was very confusing because there wasn't much to        learn from.              i've been able to do simple things with .js, though. like prune users after a        certain date and modify scripts to do what i want them to do.              synchronet is a powerful bbs software that a novice or an expert can use.              bbs software like renegade is what people start out with and get their feet        wet. it's good but then you usually want more.              i went from rg to iniquity to tg to synchronet. it was a hard learning curve        but synchronet was fast and it was stable. that's when we had netmodem and it        totally sucked.              --- Renegade v1.30r3/Exp        * Origin: The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info (1:129/305)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 129/305       SEEN-BY: 129/330 331 153/7715 218/700 226/30 227/114 229/110 111 206       SEEN-BY: 229/317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664 700 266/512 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848       PATH: 129/305 229/426           |
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