Subj : Re: BBS'ing
To   : Nick Andre
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sat Jun 04 2022 02:39 pm

  Re: Re: BBS'ing
  By: Nick Andre to Andre Robitaille on Fri Jun 03 2022 06:12 pm

 > On 03 Jun 22  13:51:13, Andre Robitaille said the following to Nick Andre:
 >
 > AR>  NA> I never really saw any WWIV or even any Tag systems in my area,
 > AR>  NA> ever.
 >
 > AR> There were only a few boards in my small town, and mine was WWIV because
 > AR> yo could buy the source. My friend had Hermes (WWIV mac clone), and I
 > AR> was alwa jealous of the much better configuration system. But having
 > AR> access to bette doors and WWIVNet gave me a huge advantage.
 >
 > I heard the source of WWIV was available, pretty sure thats what influenced
 > Renegade and some others. Mark Hoffman I believe still runs Wwivnet? I
 > helped him add the INTL kludge to Netmail.

More than "influenced": Renegade, Telegard, TAG and many other BBS programs of the era are actual hacks/rip-offs of the WWIV v3 Pascal source code.
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