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|    Jas Hud to James Coyle    |
|    Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic    |
|    04 May 22 22:35:53    |
      MSGID: 1:129/305 6c6b8d41       TID: GE 1.2       |03Quoting message from |11James Coyle |03to |11Dan Clough       |03on |1104 May 22 10:28:14|03.              JC> DC> Mystic seems to be more preferred by the "scene" folks, for reasons t       JC> DC> escape me. I think SBBS appeals more to the "tinkerer" types. Also        JC>        JC> Mystic has been historically quite a bit more advanced in the way it handl       JC> ANSI and its user interface. While Synchronet has added these things in       JC> recent day/years, these features were often found in Mystic for decades be       JC> (which is enough time to build a following).                     you arent trying to say mystic is better and more advanced than synchronet,        are you? because you might be retarded if you think that.              mystic is just a renegade knock off because the guys that took over from cott        lang told you to fuck off.              JC> And of course there is just preference. Some people prefer Pascal and Pyth       JC> over JavaScript and C++. Some people grew up using Renegade/Telegard and l       JC> Mystic for its similarities. Some people like Mystic's security. Some pe       JC> may choose Sychronet for all of those opposite reasons (they used Synchron       JC> in the 1990s, they want to write JavaScript, etc).                     i'm a renegade and telegard guy and i cant stand mystic.       i'd rather run elebbs or anything else.              and i dont know of any current bbses users who ran synchronet in the 90s.       your examples are very poor.              ... If you were an Armadillo, you'd worship trees, too!              --- 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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