Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!dayton!viper!john
From: john@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Multiuser BBS
Message-ID: <483@viper.Lynx.MN.Org>
Date: 10 Jan 88 00:08:37 GMT
References: <918@atari> <928@atari>
Reply-To: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
Organization: DynaSoft Systems
Lines: 28

In article <928@atari> neil@atari writes:
 >
 >> One other thought. Stadel is best used as a message base system. You
 >> can log on with minimal fuss, quickly find the section you are
 >> interested in, read what is appropriate, leave a message, and log off
 >> a lot faster than any other BBS that I have ever used.
 >
 >OK, I'll buy that part.  But you can't leave messages "TO" a specific person.
 >

  Wrong Neil.  Citadel has ALLWAYS (since I worked on Citadel over 5 
years ago anyway) supported sending personal messages.  I've always 
suspected that you dropped STadel because you didn't really understand 
large portions of how the system works and this just reinforces that
impression.

  The system isn't all that hard to understand, it just breaks some of
the basic assumptions that many people make about how a bbs system is
"suppost" to work.  If you really want to give it a fair trial, you
have to start by dropping a lot of assumptions... unfortunately, it's
easier for many people to reject something they don't understand
rather than taking the time to question their personal biases and
just-maybe discover a better way of doing things....

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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
UUCP: ...{amdahl,ihnp4,rutgers}!meccts!viper!john