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- From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: What is the best BBS?
- Message-ID: <paulk.0xcq@terapin.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 03:30:59 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.053218.25961@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: BBS
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- > What I'd like to see is what people dislike about C-Net, and not
- > gripes about old versions and what they didn't have (which has been
- > most of the chatter lately). C-Net is fast, efficient and totally
- > configurable. What more could anyone ask for?
-
- Well what I hate about the *particular* C-Net I'm using right now,
- more than anything else, is the way messages are connected in the
- message base ... a sequence of originals, each with a bunch of
- replies dangling off of it, all considered as replies to the first
- message rather than as replies to later replies ... and none with any
- "To:" information in them. And on THIS bbs, whenever there is one
- new reply at the end of the chain and I say "read new" it refreshes
- my memory by showing me about half a dozen older replies before the
- new one. BLEAH!
-
- I do hope that this is merely something weird done by this particular
- sysop, and not what every C-Net user has to put up with. This
- structure of the message bases is far LESS useful than the simple
- linear structure most BBSes use, in my opinion.
-
- Another thing that annoys me: the file subdirectory commands are inconsistent
- about how they behave when you're in a directory with further subdirectories
- vs. when you're at the bottom level ... or is it the top level, I forget ...
- anyway the effect is that one gets confused about what level in the structure
- any directory-switching commands are going to act on.
-
- C-Net, as far as my experience on this board goes, is one of those systems
- which offers lots of features, but in such a way that you end up wanting to
- learn as few of them as possible and just avoid anything you don't have to deal
- with right away. Sort of the Amiga equivalent of PC-Board, only more so.
-