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Re: The BBS days are long gone

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-> I don't think they are gone (apart from some telnet BBSes - honour to
-> s!)
-> I think it developed. Look at Facebook. It's nothin different than a
-> BBS. And people became more and more lazy consumers - or the internet
-> brought more and more to lazy consumers... Installing a client? OMG!
-> take the web frontend regardless if someone is collecting your data.
->
-> I am currently working on a modern BBS system, written in PHP and rel
-> common used technology like NNTP, Jabber and SMTP(S)/IMAP(S). Users c
-> on the web frontend - the BBS system - or connect directly to the ser
-> their clients.
->
-> What do you think about the approach to make a BBS system with
-> modern technolog y?

Let's see.  Synchronet, Mystic, WINServer, BBBS -- all of these already
do the very thing you are seeing.  At least two out of those are open
source and one is still supported shareware and three all multi-platform
and have one has source code available.  So, why, I ask, are you trying
to reinvent the wheel?

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Re: The BBS days are long gone ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-08-20 04:54 -0500
  Re: The BBS days are long gone robert.wolfe@wildcat.uuhec.net (Robert Wolfe) - 2019-09-14 03:35 +0000
    Re: The BBS days are long gone ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-09-14 03:30 -0500
      Re: The BBS days are long gone robert.wolfe@wildcat.uuhec.net (Robert Wolfe) - 2019-09-14 18:35 +0000
      Re: The BBS days are long gone Michael Freitag <usenet@freitag-it.de> - 2019-09-16 08:56 +0000
        Re: The BBS days are long gone HusTler@f122.n1.z21.fsxnet (HusTler) - 2019-09-16 15:02 +1200
        Re: The BBS days are long gone robert.wolfe@wildcat.uuhec.net (Robert Wolfe) - 2019-09-16 22:10 +0000
          Re: The BBS days are long gone Michael Freitag <usenet@freitag-it.de> - 2019-09-17 08:32 +0000

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