Hello Eric,   
      
    ER> Hmmm.. Interesting. I just checked out that BBS as you mentioned it, and   
    ER> yeah. Plain jane and simple.   
      
   Yep, very simple but also very stable.   
      
    ER> I did notice one issue on it though. During registration, you create   
    ER> an account, one being a unix account, and then the BBS utilizes that,   
    ER> but when choosing a handle... if you happen to try to use the same   
    ER> name as your unix account /durint/ registration, it denies it claiming   
    ER> a user already exists.. Chose to use none, then logged out and   
    ER> back in after the process was complete, went to settings, selecting   
    ER> nmy handle, no problems.   
      
   I notice something like that too, whenever I log into an MBSE BBS I enter my   
   handle as Al, but it uses al instead. If I try to change it to Al it says the   
   username is already in use. I have to change my handle to Joe, log out and   
   back in and then I can change my handle to Al. MBSE has always been that way   
   since I have used it. :)   
      
    ER> Looks like MBSE has potential, but without a scripting language....   
    ER> That urks me a lot. Back in the day f me BBSing, I actually switched   
    ER> FROM Renegade to Telegard, because Telegard had a real(ish) scripting   
    ER> language. I had gone from RG->TG->RA because of potential powerful   
    ER> customization. The main reason I even went to RA was because the specs   
    ER> for using everything from message format to user and file databases,   
    ER> were completely open, and I already knew a crap ton of Pascal.. So I   
    ER> ended up programming 50% or more of my BBS in my own custom external   
    ER> processes that handled everything.   
      
   MBSE is an open source project so it can be updated and improved. That depends   
   on having programmers in the project though, something I can't do myself.   
      
    ER> I don't want to do that again. That was a VERY heavy BBS for it's day,   
    ER> but it /was/ extremely powerful none-the-less. People loved it, which   
    ER> is what was important most of all.   
      
   Yep, if folks don't like it, no one will want to call.   
      
    ER> Today, I use Synchronet, and likely going to continue doing so, simply   
    ER> because it is so powerful yet so simple and lightweight at the same time.   
    ER> It has nearly everything, minus the mailer itself, and ticcer, but BinkD   
    ER> and htick fill in those two gaps, qico if you want too for ifcico. :)   
      
   Yep, I have built and run Synchronet and I do like it. I don't run it myself   
   because I could never make it look different than other Sync boards although   
   I'm sure that can be done, plus there are so many Sync boards that I wanted to   
   run something different.   
      
    ER> And JavaScript, as mentioned before. I've already programmed at least   
    ER> one publically distributed mod for Synchronet which is a lightbar   
    ER> driven new area scan selector which is ever so wonderfully useful, ans   
    ER> I use it myself, especially since I've been adding hundreds of message   
    ER> bases on my BBS lately. :)   
      
   Yep, I do have that little jewel in my filebase as well.. :)   
      
    Ttyl :-),   
            Al   
      
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