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    From apam@VERT/SANDWICH to Digital Man on Sat Dec 31 14:00:00 2033
    Hello

    You and Bryan seem to have some unending source of motivation. Bryan
    started around the same time as me, but you've been going for years..

    How do you keep it fresh? BBSing these days sees people come and go all
    the time, and they're just using BBS packages. I don't know how you do
    it, obviously it's a labor of love, but do you ever think man I'm going
    to do something different for a few months?

    My BBS is small fish compared to synchronet, I've been working on it off
    and on for 3 years now. Does it change things when you've got a more
    popular system? Synchronet is probably the most popular still in
    production BBS system, does the extra users help motivate you? I've been
    slowly getting more people using my software, and I feel guilty for not
    being as motivated as them.

    Well. keep trucking.

    From Andrew

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to apam on Tue May 7 00:05:52 2019
    Re: Synchronet
    By: apam to Digital Man on Sat Dec 31 2033 02:00 pm

    Hello

    You and Bryan seem to have some unending source of motivation. Bryan
    started around the same time as me, but you've been going for years..

    Remind me, who's Bryan? James (g00r00) comes to mind as another active BBS developers, but his interest and activity does seem to be more off than on, but still he keeps putting out new software year after year.

    How do you keep it fresh? BBSing these days sees people come and go all
    the time, and they're just using BBS packages. I don't know how you do
    it, obviously it's a labor of love, but do you ever think man I'm going
    to do something different for a few months?

    I do. Actually I have several hobbies and a family and work. I think it's just persistence - I'm like a dog with a bone that I won't let go! :-)

    My BBS is small fish compared to synchronet, I've been working on it off
    and on for 3 years now. Does it change things when you've got a more
    popular system? Synchronet is probably the most popular still in
    production BBS system, does the extra users help motivate you? I've been slowly getting more people using my software, and I feel guilty for not being as motivated as them.

    I'm writing this mesage using a PETSCII terminal. That's a new challenge for me. There always seems to be *something* new that I can tackle or improve upon whether it's something old (like PETSCII) or something relatively new like UTF-8 and multi-part MIME encoded messages. Most of I just do for the challenge and because I'm a perfectionist and Synchronet is far from perfect.

    I think that's the bigger motivation than users (sysops). When I started Synchronet v3 in 1999, there probably no more than a handful of active Synchronet BBSes, yet I was super motivated and inspired to do it. <shrug>

    Well. keep trucking.

    You too!

    digital man

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    Synchronet version 3 for Linux and FreeBSD development began in 2001.
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  • From apam@VERT/SANDWICH to Digital Man on Tue May 7 07:42:00 2019
    You and Bryan seem to have some unending source of motivation. Brya started around the same time as me, but you've been going for years

    Remind me, who's Bryan? James (g00r00) comes to mind as another
    active BBS developers, but his interest and activity does seem to be
    more off than on, but still he keeps putting out new software year
    after year.

    Bryan (NuSkooler) works on Enigma 1/2.

    Thanks for replying to this it's helpful. I actually wrote this a month
    or so ago and had forgotten about it (I just discovered I wasn't sending messages on dovenet oops!).

    I think as you mention work, family friends etc, the key is balance.
    Since writing this email I started another project (still BBS related)
    but having fun with it, and bouncing between the two.

    PETSCII sounds interesting.

    Andrew



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