Subj : Re: I moved to Mystic!
To   : All
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Feb 28 2024 05:12 pm

  Re: Re: I moved to Mystic!
  By: Kurisu to Gamgee on Thu Feb 22 2024 05:45 am

 >  Ga> Is there *any* possibility that this perceived "hostility" was due to
 >  Ga> not following suggested actions and not wanting to bother reading any
 >  Ga> documentation/instructions, because that was too much work?
 >
 > In this case, no.
 >
 > Had I gotten someone saying "?RTFM" and a link to the relevant information,
 > in any capacity, that would have been a welcome answer, as it would have
 > actually been helpful. Inststead I was given what can be summed up as a
 > "people won't care so don't bother" response, which I consider quite
 > defeatist.
 >
 > Given that I could not find the relevant information, in the docs, nor did
 > anyone point such out that I may have missed, I an only presume the actions
 > I wished to take are not documented in any meaningful way I could find,
 > hence why I asked in the the net which is most apt for that software
 > package.  My post was actually my best inferrance on how the process would
 > work, and I was hoping to get even just a simple "yeah, you got it" or a
 > "no, you have to do this" but instead got what I got..
 >
 > I should have asked here, or on another net, but given that the network I
 > inquired in is the "home" of that software, in a sense, it made sense to ask
 > there. When you combine that kind of reaction to me wanting to create
 > something with the other abject hostility of a rather unregylated area, and
 > other minor issues which many people have reported have been ignored, I
 > decided it was best to go to something else.
 >
 > I perhaps could have put a bit more detail on the correlation between the
 > group and the software, but I felt it was of minimal value -- the better
 > thing for me to enjoy running a BBS and creating new things was to change
 > software to a package that I felt would be better for my future goals.

If you're like me and curious what this guy was referring to, best I can determine it was this short message thread in SYNC_SYSOPS:
https://web.synchro.net/finalthread.txt <shrug>

 > So far it seems I was right about this change, and am enjoying Mystic
 > greatly. Still has a learning curve but the documentation is better and I've
 > seen in the past few years on fsxNet how helpful its fan and dev base can
 > be.

I'm glad he found a BBS software 'fan and dev base' and documentation more to his liking. The Mystic BBS software is very good as well.  :-)
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