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Subject: Re: Synchronet bbs list Date: Thu Oct 10 2013 15:33:21
From: Digital Man To: Access Denied

  Re: Re: Synchronet bbs list
  By: Access Denied to Digital Man on Thu Oct 10 2013 01:18 am

 >  DM> It's a networked sub-board with an internal code of "SYNCDATA".
 >  DM> SYNCDATA is carried on both DOVE-Net
 >  DM> (http://wiki.synchro.net/network:dove-net) and FidoNet. Have you read
 >  DM> xtrn/sbl/sbl.doc?
 >
 > Other terms for "sub-board" may be better understood as well. Message area,
 > base, or echo (since it's networked), comes to mind. It took some time
 > getting used to that for me as well, as none of the BBS softwares I used
 > prior to Synchronet used "sub-board" to describe a message base. *shrug*

http://synchro.net/docs/glossary.html

I didn't invent the term, it was used by WWIV and its derivations (Renegade, 
Telegard) before. And I seem to recall others using it as well (Forum hacks?).

                                            digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #28:
Rob Swindell first called BBSes (at 300bps) with an Apple II computer in 1982.
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