Subj : Re: Early 90s Fido To : Aaron Thomas From : Sean Dennis Date : Sun Jan 31 2021 17:47:02 -=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Sean Dennis <=- AT> You started around 1983 - but at that time, was there Fidonet? Or was AT> there even a decent message base system around? I guess Telegard was ok AT> for messaging but I just couldn't learn to deal with WC! or PCBoards. AT> They were for file leeching only! Fidonet didn't exist yet. Nearly all BBSes were islands unto themselves. I'm sure there were rudimentary message networks then but I didn't know about them. AT> I think early versions of Telegard didn't have an option to "clear AT> screen between messages," and that was and still is a very desirable AT> option for me. While Tim Strike did a lot for Telegard, he made bizarre choices also, such as not supporting *.MSG (SDM) message bases and not ever fixing several issues that he knew about because of his "principles". I once contacted him about purchasing TG's source code and he gave me a huge laundry list of excuses, not reasons, of why he couldn't do that. He didn't want to admit that as soon as he graduated college and started making money, he couldn't care less about the BBS scene. That's why I stopped using Telegard though I -really- loved it and many of its features. I switched to Maximus which admittedly is not the easiest BBS in the world to set up and configure but once it's running, it's incredibly stable. Like I said earlier, I've used a lot of BBS software but now with my poor health, I just don't have the energy or desire to learn something new. I hope to keep running a BBS for a while longer unless something changes. I have thought about, when I can, buying a small motorhome and travelling around the US full-time. If that happened, I'd probably shut the BBS down and give my FTN network to someone else to run. I'd still keep in touch with offline mail though; even after all of these years, QWK still works for me. Later, Sean .... Forty isn't considered old if you're a tree. ___ MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Outpost BBS * bbs.outpostbbs.net:10123 (1:18/200) .