I am just too annoyed to even explain this in detail but I must. Their is this post on Boing Boing today talking about a bridging a web based system to a Fidonet BBS. Well hello! Wildcat Interactive Net Server which I run BBS Networks a Fidonet capable Browser capable BBS which has been available on the Internet for 9 years, has been able to be accessed via a Browser the whole time. Cory is acting like this is revolutionary
Let see this person scale that to 5000 conferences and 7 million post and see if it can hang we ran it at those levels for 5 years on a old Windows NT box with 512 megs of Ram accessing hard-drives totaling 1 terabyte of data. Want to see a site that is capable of scaling to that level and has 185,318 shareware files online today as well. Login and see for yourself. It currently only has 787,228 messages online, what can I say the Internet got in the way. BTW since day 1 when it started it has registered 27,756,996 individual logins and had at its peak 65,000 users.
Give me a break.
Login over at BBS Networks and see what the big boys have been doing for a very long time. [Boing Boing]
I wonder why this took so long to appear in Technorati.
Speaking as ‘this person’, I’ll point out the two obvious problems with your points.
From the BoingBoing entry itself (which you obvoiusly didn’t read):
“As far as I know this is one of only a very very few web interfaces for Fidonet that aren’t provided by the BBS package itself. ”
I acknowledge that there are BBS backages out there with this capability. And really, for several hundred to several thousands of dollars – Wildcat damn well should have an echo to web interface. As well as be able to walk my dog and toast my bread.
But I digress.
Secondly – your comment about and “old non updated BBS Package” shows that you can’t even be bothered to do a two-second Google and run the name of the BBS software, even when the name of it is supplied to you right in the BoingBoing entry.
MBSE BBS is still developed and fully supported by it’s author. The last release was in October of 2004.
With respect to more ‘soft points’: I don’t see where Cory describes my little project as ‘revolutionary’ and nowhere is there any indication that I have any inclination to scale this to 5,000 conferences.
It’s just a little project I threw together that I, and obviously Cory, though was neat enough to mention.
In the future, I would suggest that you guard your credibility a little closer and spend at least a few minutes doing some research and closely reading what you are responding to before doing so.