X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f Sender: day AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <40078204.6A0D9E79@hypertech.net> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:17:40 -0800 From: Day Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.16 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: FreeDos, twenty four years later... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com mark lewis wrote: > > Originally to: Gary Welles > > GW> From: Gary Welles > > GW> The product lifecyle for Fidonet may soon, if not already > GW> have, come to an end. > > there is not "product lifecycle" for fidonet... fidonet is not a product... as > far as fidonet is concerned, it will be over when /i/ pull the plug... that > means that /i/ will be the last person standing... i'm not leaving until > everyone else has also... I had a good friend who ran a WWIV; I thought fido a bit stodgy. Looked into setting up a BBS with Fido, but found the process oddly complicated. I dont mind if there's a network for parents worried about what their kids will see, but what other BBS networks are still operating? What BBS do you dial into? I remember some which had a logon screen with 25 options, which file or message system. Most of the time, just a single choice got you what you needed. I remember others which showed an artistic logon, but then only asked me my logon/pw, and then another click to the message section, wait for that screen to load, then another click with another screenload, and so it went- the sysop more interested in me looking at the artwork than actually getting anything done. Like a lotta websites these days. But I still have OFFLINE.EXE sitting on the drive for the next qwkmail setup.