Mike,
Best as I can tell, I may be the only one still running a GT Power BBS, but DW>I don't see myself not running it (unless it quits working!). However, I DW>also like being able to run a system (or two) that are actually being DW>developed, and that can actually run native doors that are also being DW>developed (or, at least, are open source).
Too bad that things went the way they did with GT Power. When Paul
Meiners (the original author) sold it to Bill Watts, he had all these "promises" of making it with email, FTP, website interface, etc. -- but
that never happened. Bill then sold the rights to Dennis Berry, who
updated the Netmail utilities and others with Y2K programs. Then, Dennis
sold it to current owner Tom Watt, who made it freeware for
non-commercial use, and added telnet access.
Besides the telnet, had GT had the email, FTP, and website interface,
I would have stayed with it...as I would've used InterEcho and the
FIDOGate programs as the tossers.
The one thing I really like about Synchronet, though...is the utility
that Rob Swindell put in, to allow non-fossil doors (that worked fine
under dial-up but not telnet) to actually be set up like it did have a
fossil, and it could work under telnet.
Daryl
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