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- From: jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doc)
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- Subject: Re: Searchlight (Bidirectional Flame)
- Message-ID: <Bs41qE.1Hy@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 17:54:13 GMT
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- fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) writes:
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- >>2) Many people hate Searchlight.
-
- >one person hates Searchlight.
-
- Get a life, fnord. If you think Im the only one you are ignorant indeed.
-
- >The Message Threading on Searchlight is superior to any product on the
- >market. When a message comes up, there is an indicator of the number of
- >replies to it. You can read these replies without losing your place. You
- >can jump up the thread, or across the thread very easily.
-
- Message threading on SL is totally confusing. I have yet to figure out
- the difference between "Top" and "Original" message, or "Next" and
- "Sequential". Im sure fnord will now diligently explain the differences
- to me, and tell me how simple it really is (to him) but the fact remains
- that it is confusing to new users. Hell its confusing to old users!
- And there is no online help which explains it satisfactorily, or even
- in the manual. SL once again leaves you in the dark.
-
- >The decision was made not to incorporate such information because
-
- >1) it rapidly fills up disk space and
-
- How nice to know that Frank made that choice for you, instead of
- leaving it up to you. Frankie knows best? I dont think so.....
-
- >2) it is contrary to the author's philosophy of BBSing. That is Frank
- >didn't really go for "The Sysop as big brother"
-
- Yes, and along with that philosophy, SL doesnt even let the sysop see
- the users' passwords. A sorry "feature" indeed. That says "well we
- dont trust you and we think that you might share your users' passwords
- with other sysops so you arent allowed to see."
- So when a user forgets his password and asks you what it is, you look
- like an idiot having to tell him "I dont know, I can only reset it
- for you."
-
- >From what I gathered from our sole major vocal opponent of Searchlight in
- >private e-mail transactions, the problem is that after the first major
- >upgrade, they cost $25. (This naturally excludes maintenence releases)
-
- Dont even think that I am alone in this fnord, Im just the only SL sysop
- who doesnt like it AND who happens to read this group AND has the motivation
- to speak up about it. The fact is that the =majority= of SL sysops I know
- would not buy it again. The fact that they dont have internet access or
- dont read this group or just dont care to get involved in this debate doesnt
- mean theyre not out there.
-
- By the way, the upgrades cost $30, not $25. If you want a diskette mailed
- to you, you can add another 6 bucks on top of that. For that $6 you get
- a 720K diskette that has been hole-punched and formatted to 1.44M, and a
- floppy mailer with $.65 postage on it.
-
- You wanted facts, those are facts. Opinion is still the same, Searchlight
- sucks!
-