Subj : TBBS
To   : James Coyle
From : Eric Oulashin
Date : Thu May 12 2016 07:49 pm

  Re: TBBS
  By: James Coyle to Eric Oulashin on Thu May 12 2016 21:20:16

 EO>> "next" through each message.  I used BBSes quite a bit in the 90s,
 EO>> though I don't remember if most BBS packages worked like that;
 EO>> however, Synchronet's

 JC> It is pretty much the standard way to read messages, used by just about
 JC> every BBS not just Synchronet. I think Mystic and one called WME were the
 JC> only software I ever saw back in the 90s that provided an alternative to
 JC> the traditional message reading, like you're describing.

 JC> There were hardware and bandwidth limitations that made it much trickier
 JC> to do back then, but I also think people creating these interfaces maybe
 JC> just didn't have the vision to make something different either.

My inspiration for having a message list and choosing a message to read mainly
came from newsgroup and email readers (such as Forte Agent, etc.).

Eric
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