X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f From: "mark lewis" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: FreeDos, twenty four years later... Message-ID: Date: Friday, 16 Jan 2004 19:54:46 -0500 X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29) In-Reply-To: X-Fido-From: mark lewis, 1:3634/12 X-Fido-To: Day Brown MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IgLou-Customer: verified X-Originating-IP: 204.255.230.204 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Originally to: Day Brown >> 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... DB> I had a good friend who ran a WWIV; I thought fido a bit DB> stodgy. if you were coming at fidonet from a WWIV bbs, i don't doubt that one bit... WWIV has its own methodology and networking style... shoehorning fidonet into WWIV is like showhorning QWK into fidonet... the basic message content comes across but the total functionality does not... DB> Looked into setting up a BBS with Fido, but found the DB> process oddly complicated. that would depend on the software you choose to use... i find some seem to integrate much better and easier than others... personally, i run frontdoor, remoteaccess and fastecho and then tie binkd in on the backside with another util or two... DB> I dont mind if there's a network for parents worried about DB> what their kids will see, but what other BBS networks are DB> still operating? i couldn't tell ya, really... there is a whole list published in the fidonet OTHERNETS echo from time to time... however, those, IIRC, are all based on FTN (fidonet technology networking)... DB> What BBS do you dial into? i don't dial in... i'm a sysop and haven't dialed in in over 15 years... i do all my accessing of my system on the backside... DB> I remember some which had a logon screen with 25 options, DB> which file or message system. Most of the time, just a DB> single choice got you what you needed. I remember others DB> which showed an artistic logon, but then only asked me my DB> logon/pw, and then another click to the message section, DB> wait for that screen to load, then another click with another DB> screenload, and so it went- the sysop more interested in me DB> looking at the artwork than actually getting anything done. DB> Like a lotta websites these days. yeah, many are/were more interested in prettyfying their stuff rather than providing decent functionality... the main reason for this was to try to make the system unique in a sea of likeness... especially when most of them are running the same software of software that emulates other systems... i prefer my remoteaccess where i have to design my menus myself and come up with my own command keys and such... there's no other system like it in the world ;-) DB> But I still have OFFLINE.EXE sitting on the drive for the DB> next qwkmail setup. hehehe... )\/(ark