To: Kurt Weiske
  Re: Re: QWK Networking via Ele/RA
  By: Kurt Weiske to Shawn Highfield on Mon Jul 15 2024 06:33 am

 >
 >  SH> This is 25 years later and without the author keeping things updated
 >  SH> it's essentially a buggy binkp program now.  It's a shame really
 >
 >
 >  What drew me to Synchronet was being able to run a telnettable BBS,
 >  SMTP/POP3/IMAP servers, NNTP, FTP and a web server, all in one package.
 >  All this ran, back in the early 2000s, on a Celeron 533 with 512 MB of
 >  RAM.
 >
 >

what drew me to synchronet is the stability.  i was running the old netmodem and
other junk with iniquity or renegade in the late 90s-2000.

BBS software wise, everything was a mess in the new telnet age.  I had to run my
bbs across town at my friends house because i couldnt get cable internet in my
area.  Stupid netmodem would always crash or say 'busy' when it wasn't.

I saw all these synchronet bbses and decided to give it a try. elebbs was a
close 2nd.  for me, synchronet was a huge learning curve and there wasn't much i
could learn from in regards to scripting; I had to figure a lot of it out
myself.  Eventually I mastered it, but i'm pretty sure right now my BBS-peen is
1/4 the size it used to be due to forgetting and not exercising my skills.
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