Talk:Door (bulletin board system)

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A few door programs operated the opposite way, answering the modem and then giving control to the BBS software
is entirely correct.  Programs like 'BinkleyTerm'  and 'FrontDoor'  can technically be such 'door' programs. These external programs can either answer the phone for the BBS and then spawn the BBS software itself, or, for some BBS programs (T.A.G. and Telegard are examples) they can be spawned from the BBS like a door program would after the BBS answers the phone.  How they were configured was often up to the SysOp -- the advantage of having the BBS spawn Bink or FroDo instead of the other way around was that the BBS was the program running at the wait-for-caller (WFC) screen, so it could spawn maintenance tasks ('events'); otherwise you had to setup your events in Bink or FroDo, which might not do you what you want.  Launched either way, they were considered FidoNet 'front-end mailers' or even 'front-end doors' (hence names like 'FrontDoor').
Anyway, I couldn't find a citation, so I'm writing this from personal experience, which will hopefully stand as a citation for the article.
Thanks,
Rob Shinn,
former BBS SysOp of Final Frontier BBS - 1:120/284.0@fidonet.org
:This is unfortunately a clear violation of WP:NOR. -- Dan Griscom (talk) 03:27, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Door programs functioning opposite way 

message: This whole article is written in the past tense. These programs still exist, and surely there are a a few BBSes still operating somewhere with door games available for play... while writing about BBSes and doors as a thing of the past is universally intuitive, i still think it is ultimately POV. --PopeFauveXXIII 17:25, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Having found this, they must still exist.  I have edited some of the verbs to present tense, but I left many of them in the past tense because I wasn't certain if the subjects of some sentences referenced projects that were active or defunct.  Perhaps someone more familiar with the history of this technology can edit the rest. B7T (talk) 13:35, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Past tense? 

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message: I'd like to work on the games part of this article (possibly spin it out if enough sourcing is available) and since there are few historical sources online, am requesting recommendations for print sources (books, magazines, newspapers: any content that would qualify as a reliable source) that discuss BBS door games (this era and usage, BBS games as a genre, or individual titles). Even if you don't have the source yourself, titles would be good starting points. czar · · 02:36, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Print sources