Subj : What I Don't Like About Synchronet
To   : Mvan Le
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Sat May 05 2007 03:43 am

Hello Mvan.

29 Apr 07 03:11, you wrote to Joe Bruchis:

 ML> * It lacks some of the user-customisable message searching functions
 ML> that Maximus has eg. Browse Msg -> All areas -> List messages (instead
 ML> of Read messages) etc.

This is what Baja and ssjs are for. :)

 ML> * I don't like the board/sub-board (RA-style group/subgroup)
 ML> file/message area categorising method. Traversing the Maximus Usenet
 ML> style divisions are a more logical/relational/intuitive breakdown of
 ML> message groups & areas. (imo). And  the heirarchies can be embedded
 ML> deep.

I have to disagree with you here.  I disliked the way Maximus handled this.  I 
like Synchronet's way much better -- very similar to what Wildcat! and 
WINServer do.

 ML> Anything can be made "highly customisable" if you have source code.

I totally agree.  I was about to make the point that if you know how to code in 
C/C++ or JavaScript, then you could download the source code and compile in all 
these features yourself.  That's the beauty of open source!

 ML> Hypothetically if I contracted dozens of dedicated
 ML> Chinese/Indian/Russian students AUD$5k pa to develop Maximus it would
 ML> easily be better than Synchronet. Money is a powerful catalyst.

But thne you would have to release all your source code mods under the GPL or 
something like that.

Robert

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