On 20 Nov 25 16:11:31, Exodus said the following to Atreyu:

I cannot stand 1000000 line ANSIs ... I always hit SPACE to stop praying it works. I don't see an issue to have it display to a user unless they were an ANSI door, LOOKING at ANSIs.

Reminds me of the few Iniquity & Obv/2 boards we had in the area at one time.

They ALL had scrollers, custom menus with custom Ansis everywhere.... all
the same gang of callers, all the same noise in the message areas, all the same pirated warez, all the same doors... nothing really original.

The boards I did admire as original around here were ones ran by a crackpot religous zealot... Ohhh mannnnn the bible this, the bible that, Jesus this, Jesus that... was entertainment in itself. Subsequently we also had a self-described satanic board... another nutjob but slightly more personable.

Then there was the wannabe-Rusty-'n-Edie pornographer couple with their stock TriBBS which they bragged at a local Sysop meetup was "the best software" and never shut-up about it or their file section which really you could've found on other boards that didn't care about the whole age verification nonsense.

Ahh but my favourite was the Searchlight guy who deliberately took the modem offhook to create the illusion of a busy board.

Atreyu

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On 19 Nov 25 16:24:00, Shurato said the following to All:

Using aciddraw (I think ,maybe it's thedraw) I can set the speed of an

ANSI.

What is ideal for BBS's? I'd like my scrollers to display at a decent

speed

Maybe its just me but I get a visceral reaction when calling boards with "scrollers" or any fancy-Ansi as the showoff factor quickly wears thin.

All of my ANSI is optional. The scrollers are random as well.

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