Subj : RE: Favorite BBS software
To   : Eric Oulashin
From : Allen Prunty
Date : Thu May 12 2016 12:31 am


On May 11, 2016 04:48pm, Eric Oulashin wrote to All:

 EO> I'm just curious what everyone's favorite BBS software is?  It's not my
 EO> intent to start a flame war/argument, I'm just curious what BBS
 EO> software you like and why.  I've been running Synchronet (in Windows)
 EO> since 2007, and although I like it, I've started to get curious about
 EO> other BBS software and what advantages/disadvantages they might offer
 EO> over Synchronet.  Mystic seems popular, and I keep thinking I'd like to
 EO> give that a try.  I know there are people who dislike Mystic though
 EO> (for various reasons which I don't remember offhand).

I've always loved Wildcat... and Winserver, although it's expensive, has every
bell and whistle imaginable.  It's a lot more configurable than Synchronet...
but you don't have the source code.  Synchronet is still developing their
fidonet, but Winserver has all but stoped development of it as they considr it
a dead technology.

To be honest, Fidonet could totally be revived if someone would write an
iPad/Android app that interfaces with a BBS Server.

Allen

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