Talk:Hermes (BBS)

Merge Proposal
Regarding the recommendation that this article be merged with the BBS List article, that seems reasonable to me, as the Hermes BBS listing there tied to a missing link, which is why I wrote it in the first place. I was a SysOp of a Hermes BBS in 1990, and wrote a few plugins for it including the voting/poll plugin. There were really only 2 main choices for BBSes at the time on the Mac-- Red Ryder Host (RRH), which had been around for years (I also ran an RRH BBS), and Hermes, which was a late-comer and a Mac version of the WWIV-style BBS and supported some of the more recent technologies. I think because the Internet started becoming popular among geeks around this time, and because AppleLink Personal Edition turned into America Online around this time and spammed the universe with their CDs, Hermes (and most Mac BBSes) life was cut rather short. I accept the judgement that people don't think it was notable enough for its own page. Definitely not as notable as RRH in Mac BBS lore. But as only 1 of 2 common options for Mac BBSes, it also had a significant place in its history. --Sam (talk) 14:44, 22 February 2023 (UTC)