Subj : Re: FSED "Save as Draft" and REPLY kludge
To   : Scott Street
From : Bj”rn Wiberg
Date : Tue Sep 02 2025 09:12 pm

Hello Scott!

On 02 Sep 2025, Scott Street said the following...

 SS>   a)  it tried to be everything -  BBS, Mailer, Tosser/Packer,
 SS> Scheduler... etc.   Would have been much better to just be the BBS.

Yes, that could be true. I guess including it all in one package is a good way 
to get things up and running easier than otherwise. It is possible, though, to 
replace some parts if you wish to -- I chose to use binkd and ifcico as 
mailers, but Mystic as tosser and BBS, for example.

 SS>   b)  Not open source; this is minor in the grand scheme if the
 SS> developers support the product actively, but if said developers decide
 SS> to abandon the project - I would have liked them to make arrangements to
 SS> "pass the torch" as it where.

Yes, it does make the product more vulnerable over time. I believe, though, 
that some earlier version of Mystic actually *was* released as open source, but 
that it mostly resulted in other people rebranding it, claiming it to be their 
own work, and probably not contributing much to its development, which surely 
must have annoyed (and saddened) g00r00 after putting so much effort into it 
over the years...

Best regards
Bj”rn

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 * Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (2:201/137)

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