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Ä Area: MUFFIN ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Msg#: 10 Date: 11-07-94 15:47
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From: Vern Faulkner Read: Yes Replied: No
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To: David Ready Mark:
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Subj: Happy with Max: Response
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DR> The age of the caller on the bottom line, the security checking
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DR> at x (sysop set) of calls, ie bithdate, phone number. Duplicate
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DR> phone number checking. Automatic detection of RIP. Automatic ANSI
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DR> detection. EMSI user logons. Pull down menu configuration. To
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DR> name but a few in RA.
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DD> All of these features can be implemented by a comptetant SysOp.
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DR> You idiot!!! What an incomptetant reply!!!! What sysop
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DR> has the time to produce code to do half the things
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DR> listed above and in the next sentence RA is far more of
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Sir. Lest I remind you that this echo is an analogy of our daily lives, and
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ask you to remain polite? I hope you are not in the habit of calling your
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peers, co-workers, and relations "idiots" when you disagree with them.
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For one, I cannot let your comments go by without some form of retort from a
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Registered Ra Sysop who has their key parked on a floppy somewhere.
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Remote Access is a top package. Sure. However, lets address some issues you
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bring up.
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Message Grouping. Sure, RA has it. Max does too, in its own way - like many
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things, it depends on perspectives. Keys can help, but even then - the naming
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convention of message areas is more robust than with RA. You can't name your
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local fido sysop base "FS" in Ra, can you?
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Duplicate Phone number checking. YOu know, I always *DETESTED* that feature
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of max. It makes no sense, really - I have four callers living in one house,
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for crying out loud.
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I'll grant you one concession you didn't make very well - the data on the
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bottom of the screen. But.. I counter. You hit any key on any remote caller
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and you get the entire edit screen. Now. Try to tell me the online edit screen
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of RA is as good. It isn't . Why? Because with RA the *SYSTEM FREEZES* when
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you hit <alt><s> to edit the online caller. With max, it doesn't. Why put a
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bunch of data on a status line that is not only available, but editiable at
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the touch of a key? Without freezing the system like RA? This was one of my
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three-year beefs that Milner, Jones, Bodger, and company never even
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acknowledged as a huge defect.
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I suspect you will find auto-ANSI in the next Max. Auto ANSI is only for ONE
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screen.
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Now... Since you seem to be a RA jockey, let me challenge you.
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How much did it cost for a functional .QWK door? Which one did you use? JCQWK?
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How much did that cost? Do you move messages from one base to the other, to
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find that doing so blows message pointers in JAM bases? What is your Editor?
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How much did THAT cost - since, of course, RA doesn't have one built into its
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shareware version.
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Run Four lines of Remote Access, as a shareware Registered. I can do that with
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Max.
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There is one feature I think max misses that I will concede: netmail replies
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to echomail.
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What is your message tosser? How much did it COST? Or did you go with FMail,
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which blows up messagebases, and causes chkdsk /f to be run once daily?
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Oh dear me.. lest we forget. You don't see a MAX-os2 echo, do you? They've got
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an entire echo devoted to running RA under os/2, because it doesn't have a
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native version! Running a dos bbs under os/2. Dear me. And all of this cost
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you what, 50 us, or 60 cdn?
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Ever tried to netmail a bug report to Royce Jones? THere is an adventure...
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Give me a break. As a sysop who cares more about their users, rather than
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pretty interfaces, I went with max because of its stability. I, for one, used
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to trash max 1.00, but that was a function of my own biases and lack of
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knowledge. I am solidly convinced that any sysop that doesn't have a bucket of
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money to throw at their software, who cares if message pointers migrate or
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vapourize on users, and who truly wishes to be able to worry about the quality
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of the system, rather than the quality of the operationg platform will at
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least look at maximus with a careful and unjaded eye.
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-!- Maximus/2 2.02
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! Origin: Fnd: DOS/Bink/Max; Victoria, BC. (1:340/44)
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