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From: Isaac_K_Rabinovitch@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Bulletin Board Software Needed
Message-ID: <3479@cup.portal.com>
Date: 25 Feb 88 04:45:05 GMT
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davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen, who hates fools)
writes:
->In article <901@ut-emx.UUCP> emp@ut-emx.UUCP (naDev~tlhIngan~putulu) writes:
->| In article <660002@otter.hple.hp.com>, tjfs@otter.hple.hp.com (Tim Steele) wri
->es:
->| > Anyone feel like posting Opus?
->| > 
->| > Tim
->| 
->| [ many blank lines and statements ending in !!! ]
->| [ more lines with !!! about something called WWIV ]
->| ....can Dopus or any oter say that?
->
->The software is called OPUS, and is always distributed in source form.
->By contrast a "Dopus" is a person who flames a product he has never owned,
->used, or understood, then points to his favorite alternative as better
->because of the (mythical) flaws in the other product.

Not so mythical.  I've accessed OPUS on a well-run BBS, and although it's
unquestionable the fanciest of the MS-DOS BBSs, it's the buggiest piece
of software I've ever seen.  If you're patient and you don't panic every
time something bizarre happens, it's a lot easier to use than then the
usual Fido- or RBBS-type systems (which are the only other common systems
I know).  But its problems are still pathetic.  The most extreme is the
full-screen editor, where *any* keystroke causes about 50 bytes worth of
unnecessary cursor motion, and it's very easy to destroy your message
accidentally.  Of course, no one else has *any* full-screen editor...

Also the name is dumb.

BTW Bill, are you keeping track of your balance at the Insult Bank?  You
don't want to get overdrawn.

Isaac Rabinovitch
Disclaimer:  Just because I think you're wrong, doesn't
             mean I don't think you're a fun person!
:-)