• Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook

    From Xerxes@VERT/KN6Q to MRO on Wed Apr 20 00:19:00 2022
    Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: MRO to Xerxes on Tue Apr 19 2022 10:59 pm

    i dont know why people run mystic. i guess they are told there's no other option and the author says it is a spiritual sucessor to rg and telegard. i loved rg and telegard and i don't find it as such.

    i think people should check out elebbs or just run an older dos bbs software, but if they like running it, that's good.

    I never ran Telegard but as far as Renegade I don't think it's the "spiritual successor" to rg either.

    There are "bridge" programs out there that will give you telnet and stuff to the DOS BBS software. There are people who do it and there are times I think it's tempting, but you'd still lose a ton of stuff compared to Synchronet.

    I don't think Mystic is bad at all and if they like it good for them, I just don't see how even if you ran it why you would think it's "the best". I can drive a Chevy and like it just fine without claiming it's "the best car".
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Xerxes on Wed Apr 20 01:54:57 2022
    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Xerxes to dragon on Tue Apr 19 2022 11:58 pm

    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: dragon to Xerxes on Tue Apr 19 2022 09:24 pm

    My database shows 309 Synchronets and 219 Mystics.

    You probably have the most accurate database I've ever seen.

    So, I'm wrong it's not double but still close to 50% more...that's not insignificant.
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    whenever i see a new bbs or one i havent heard of, it's a mystic one.
    if there ARE more more synchronet bbses, these might be a holdout from the old days when someone would just install a synchronet bbs and let it rot. back then there was a huge amount of synchronet systems.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Xerxes on Wed Apr 20 01:57:40 2022
    Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Xerxes to MRO on Wed Apr 20 2022 12:19 am


    I never ran Telegard but as far as Renegade I don't think it's the "spiritual successor" to rg either.

    There are "bridge" programs out there that will give you telnet and stuff to the DOS BBS software. There are people who do it and there are times I think it's tempting, but you'd still lose a ton of stuff compared to Synchronet.


    well older bbs softwares had the same kind of stuff for the users, and some of them had scripting languages.

    i use synchronet to launch the older bbses. the elebbs i host for a friend has the telnet server on another port and then it launches via synchronet.

    you can also use net2bbs.

    it all depends on what you want.
    like would i, myself lose a lot switching? probably not. most of my mods could be converted to another scripting language and i dont use synchronet's other servers other than bbs and email.
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  • From Xerxes@VERT/KN6Q to MRO on Wed Apr 20 12:22:00 2022
    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: MRO to Xerxes on Wed Apr 20 2022 01:54 am

    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Xerxes to dragon on Tue Apr 19 2022 11:58 pm

    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: dragon to Xerxes on Tue Apr 19 2022 09:24 pm

    My database shows 309 Synchronets and 219 Mystics.

    You probably have the most accurate database I've ever seen.

    So, I'm wrong it's not double but still close to 50% more...that's not
    insignificant.
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    Sysop of Desert Rats Sanctuary --- https://bbs.kn6q.org


    whenever i see a new bbs or one i havent heard of, it's a mystic one.
    if there ARE more more synchronet bbses, these might be a holdout from the old days when someone would just install a synchronet bbs and let it rot.


    Dragon probably has an accurate answer to that with the IPTIA database- a cursory look at the Synchronet BBS list shows 20+ new ones since the beggining of the year - the vast majority of those on the list are 3.18 or higher. If they were setup and letting them rot, I'd expect them not to keep up with the latest version.

    Reguardless, good for their little poll, I just don't agree with it objectively :)
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  • From Xerxes@VERT/KN6Q to MRO on Wed Apr 20 12:33:00 2022
    Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: MRO to Xerxes on Wed Apr 20 2022 01:57 am

    it all depends on what you want.

    That it does...
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Xerxes on Wed Apr 20 16:41:12 2022
    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Xerxes to MRO on Wed Apr 20 2022 12:22 pm

    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: MRO to Xerxes on Wed Apr 20 2022 01:54 am

    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Xerxes to dragon on Tue Apr 19 2022 11:58 pm

    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: dragon to Xerxes on Tue Apr 19 2022 09:24 pm

    My database shows 309 Synchronets and 219 Mystics.

    You probably have the most accurate database I've ever seen.

    So, I'm wrong it's not double but still close to 50% more...that's not
    insignificant.
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    Sysop of Desert Rats Sanctuary --- https://bbs.kn6q.org


    whenever i see a new bbs or one i havent heard of, it's a mystic one. if there ARE more more synchronet bbses, these might be a holdout from the old days when someone would just install a synchronet bbs and let it rot.


    Dragon probably has an accurate answer to that with the IPTIA database- a cursory look at the Synchronet BBS list shows 20+ new ones since the beggining of the year - the vast majority of those on the list are 3.18 or higher. If they were setup and letting them rot, I'd expect them not to keep up with the latest version.

    Reguardless, good for their little poll, I just don't agree with it objectively :)
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    also bbses come and go. like bbses will disappear right after being on a list. and there's bbses that arent on any lists.

    so who really knows.
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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to MRO on Fri Apr 22 13:10:22 2022
    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Xerxes to MRO on Wed Apr 20 2022 12:22 pm

    also bbses come and go. like bbses will disappear right after being on a list. and there's bbses that arent on any lists.

    so who really knows.
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    True. Well said there. :-)

    $ The Millionaire $

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  • From dragon@VERT/IPTIA to MRO on Sun Apr 24 12:27:41 2022
    On 4/20/2022 2:54 AM, MRO wrote:
    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Xerxes to dragon on Tue Apr 19 2022 11:58 pm

    > Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    > By: dragon to Xerxes on Tue Apr 19 2022 09:24 pm
    >
    > dr> My database shows 309 Synchronets and 219 Mystics.
    >
    > You probably have the most accurate database I've ever seen.
    >
    > So, I'm wrong it's not double but still close to 50% more...that's not
    > insignificant.
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    > Sysop of Desert Rats Sanctuary --- https://bbs.kn6q.org


    whenever i see a new bbs or one i havent heard of, it's a mystic one.
    if there ARE more more synchronet bbses, these might be a holdout from the old days when someone would just install a synchronet bbs and let it rot. back then there was a huge amount of synchronet systems.
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    This might be a good place to mention that I do elect not to list a
    handful of Mystic boards I find because the operator has not named the
    board, changed the sysop name, or done anything else to identify their site.

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