Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu!hoss!greg From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: ProLine vs GBBS (ACOS) Message-ID: <1991Jun1.034425.12913@unlinfo.unl.edu> Date: 1 Jun 91 03:44:25 GMT References: <1991May31.231610.26871@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@unlinfo.unl.edu Organization: GBBS/ACOS Sysop Support Lines: 57 Nntp-Posting-Host: hoss.unl.edu bbarba@pro-torii.cts.com (Bob Barba) writes: >In-Reply-To: message from drudman@hpcc01.HP.COM Why do ProLine sites use that ugly "In-Reply-To: message from *" stuff? C'mon, conform! :-) {"Let's repeat the non-conformist's oath: I promise to be different." "I promise to be different." "I promise to be unique." "I promise to be unique." "I promise not to repeat things other people say." "I promi..." "Good!" -- Steve Martin and the audience} > >>As far as networking goes, it is very easy to set up networking modules for >>GBBS (take a look at Ogg-Net, a 30 system network, hubbed across the US.) >>It may not have Internet support, but creating support for it would be very >>easy for a decent ACOS programmer. Pro-Line may have a better installed >>base for Networking, but it is not the ONLY networking Apple II software. >A 30 site network!! c'mon now Pro-Line offers almost 90 PRO-LINE sites! not >just "hubbed across the US." like Ugg-Net, Since you aren't in the US, please restrain such comments like "Ugg-Net" until you've used it. >but around the world!! with actual >Pro-Line sites in Austraila, Germany and Japan. These 90 sites do not include >the UUCP, BITNET, ARPA, INTERNET, FIDO, or People-Net gateways. Now c'mon, you have to take into account that since they are using ACOS that the majority couldn't afford ProLine, and thus fewer are willing to spend money in long distance bills to connect to all these places. Age is another consideration. Who are the lucky nodes putting the bills to send these messages overseas, and have they met Ed McMahan and/or Robin Leach? >I have also had the BEST support from Morgan Davis (author) and my fellow >Pro-Line Sysops from around the world. I don't think I could have found a >better home than Pro-Line!! More unnecessary bloat then. When will people realize that from bigger, better is not the automatic path? >ProLine: bbarba@pro-torii | Pro-Torii (Iwakuni, Japan) >Internet: bbarba@pro-torii.cts.com | 011-81-611-753-4846 >UUCP: crash!pro-torii!bbarba | Hrs: 8pm - 5am Mon-Thr >Mail: Bob Barba, PO Box 139 FPO Seattle, Wa 98764 | 8pm Fri - 5am Mon -- /// ____ \\\ "The major problem--one of the major problems, for there are | |/ / \ \| | several--one of the many major problems with governing \\_|\____/|_// people is of whom you get to do it, or more to the greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu point, who gets people to let them do it to them."