Re: Re: Issue With Message Im
By: paul lee to Digital Man on Mon Oct 12 2026 03:48 pm
> DM> > Dude - I remember when Sync was $299 in all the BBS magazines, and you
> DM> > answering the same [albeit different] questions to sysops way back
> DM> > when
> DM> You're welcome. Not as many of us around that recall that. :-) There was
> DM> always a cheap (e.g. 2 node) option that most Synchronet sysops paid >
> DM> DM> (not $299).
> Dude - from what I remember, the $299 version of Sync WAS the smokin hot deal
> > on the scene!!
> All the other big guys wanted $1000+, for sysops to pay for modules as if the
> > BBS was a base sofware and were just milkin it... I think the smart ones saw
> the writing on the wall and needed to get as much out of the platform before
> it all came down;
> TBBS, Major, Galacticom(?) - and all the other big multi-node joints. Sync was
> always the community BBS software WITH the fancy stuff. I can't believe its
> still rockin and rollin. :P
> [Sorry I replied twice to this one... derp.]
what region were you from. i was in the midwest and synchronet was really not
Popular. I knew of the name because i would see it in file listings.
Pay bbses were really not popular during the time i was active in bbses.
Like 92+
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