shitty wrote to MRO <=-

The stock Synch boards (aka all of them) have a feature where you can
make your menus and hotkeys similar to a stock Renegade board, which
makes the experience ok until you enter the message reader or the
message editor. That's where the buzz is killed completely.

There's SlyEdit and DDMsgReader, which give you a decent editor and
threadable message lister/reader - that makes a nice bump and both come
with Synchronet in the XTRN directory.

I'm running the Renegade menus, with some ANSIs and color
customization. Not sure that the stock message experience is a
buzzkill, but I like the old school look of stock. Then again, I do
most of my messaging through QWK, which is does well - I can FTP
packets and replies to/from the BBS.




... Think of the radio
--- MultiMail/Win v0.52
þ Synchronet þ .: realitycheckbbs.org :: scientia potentia est :.

Re: Re: C Origins
By: poindexter FORTRAN to shitty on Thu May 21 2026 08:04 am

There's SlyEdit and DDMsgReader, which give you a decent editor and threadable message lister/reader - that makes a nice bump and both come with Synchronet in the XTRN directory.

DDMsgReader is in the xtrn directory, but SlyEdit is in the exec directory.

Nightfox

---
þ Synchronet þ Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com

I'm running the Renegade menus, with some ANSIs and color
customization. Not sure that the stock message experience is a
buzzkill, but I like the old school look of stock. Then again, I do
most of my messaging through QWK, which is does well - I can FTP
packets and replies to/from the BBS.

Are you using BlueWave?

That's probably what I should do to join the conversation on Synch boards.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: alcoholidaybbs.com / Est. 1995 / Columbia, SC

Shitty wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Are you using BlueWave?

That's probably what I should do to join the conversation on Synch
boards.

I'm using MultiMail. I was a longtime BlueWave user, but after Y2K
started using Multimail instead. It looks/feels like BlueWave did, but
there are DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux and Mac versions. Only does QWK
format packets, but I don't think anyone's running a BW door these days.

Like BlueWave, you can install whatever text editor you'd like to
create/reply to messages.

https://github.com/wmcbrine/MultiMail





... Do the last thing first
--- MultiMail/Win v0.52
þ Synchronet þ .: realitycheckbbs.org :: scientia potentia est :.

Re: Re: C Origins
By: Shitty to MRO on Fri May 22 2026 12:14 am

I visit Shenk's Express (a synch board) sometimes. I don't know which message editor it has, but it's a pain in the ass. Ctrl-U to quote, Ctrl-Z to save. It's just hard to remember.

I just checked that BBS out - They have FSEditor and SlyEdit set up. With SlyEdit, as alternates for those quote & save keys, you can quote by typing /q on a blank line by itself & pressing enter and similarly, save with /s .

Nightfox

---
þ Synchronet þ Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com

That's probably what I should do to join the conversation on Synch boards.

I'm using MultiMail. I was a longtime BlueWave user, but after Y2K
started using Multimail instead. It looks/feels like BlueWave did, but there are DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux and Mac versions. Only does QWK
format packets, but I don't think anyone's running a BW door these days.

False statement! MultiMail is what I use to read Bluewave packets. :D

It can handle either.


---
* ScorpioWeb * Project Scorpio TEST

Are you using BlueWave?

That's probably what I should do to join the conversation on Synch boards.

I'm using MultiMail. I was a longtime BlueWave user, but after Y2K
started using Multimail instead. It looks/feels like BlueWave did, but there are DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux and Mac versions. Only does QWK
format packets, but I don't think anyone's running a BW door these days.

Like BlueWave, you can install whatever text editor you'd like to create/reply to messages.

https://github.com/wmcbrine/MultiMail

Thanks and I am going to give it a try. It sucks getting timed out on BBSs that have inactivity timeouts. (Doesn't it seem like that shouldn't be a thing these days?)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: alcoholidaybbs.com / Est. 1995 / Columbia, SC

I visit Shenk's Express (a synch board) sometimes. I don't know which message editor it has, but it's a pain in the ass. Ctrl-U to quote, C to save. It's just hard to remember.

I just checked that BBS out - They have FSEditor and SlyEdit set up.
With SlyEdit, as alternates for those quote & save keys, you can quote
by typing /q on a blank line by itself & pressing enter and similarly, save with /s .

My bad! I was overcomplicating it.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: alcoholidaybbs.com / Est. 1995 / Columbia, SC

Mike Powell wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

False statement! MultiMail is what I use to read Bluewave packets. :D

It can handle either.

I did not know that! I liked the BW format more than QWK, wish more
boards supported it.



--- MultiMail/Win v0.52
þ Synchronet þ .: realitycheckbbs.org :: scientia potentia est :.

Shitty wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Thanks and I am going to give it a try. It sucks getting timed out on
BBSs that have inactivity timeouts. (Doesn't it seem like that
shouldn't be a thing these days?)

Not when you can send up 6-10 telnet nodes on a low-end box...



... Adding on
--- MultiMail/Win v0.52
þ Synchronet þ .: realitycheckbbs.org :: scientia potentia est :.