Cory5412, I am not dissing Hotline or any of the other client/server suites which were popular at that time. After all, as I have already said, I was -- and still am -- a Hotline admin, even if my resurrected Hotline server is totally dead in the water. I don't have bots or fake users logged on to it like some of the others do. 
Surprisingly, my Hermes II BBS is getting considerably more traffic, so that seems to indicate where the interest lies.
At any rate, I think you are totally missing the point of my comments. While you may hold to the view that running a text- and PC-ANSI-based BBS on a Classic Mac makes no sense, there are in fact those few of us who still find it charming and quaint, because it takes us back to our roots when we were new computer users. This has nothing to do with whether or not it makes sense. It goes deeper than that.
Of course, that is NOT the only reason why I have resurrected my Hermes II BBS once again. As you well know, BBSing is a part of our computer history. As such, I want the younger generation to have an opportunity to see what we old geezers did with our computers, long before many of them were even born. Yes, the point-and-click generation may find it strange, archaic, and perhaps even challenging to have to constantly type things at the keyboard, but it will also be an experience for them.
If there is one thing that Steve Job believed in, it was in being unique, and being different. Well, my friend, in this day and age, you can't get any more unique and different than running "ancient" software like a PC-ANSI-based Bulletin Board Service on a modern, powerful Macintosh.
If you believe that it makes no sense to run a BBS on a Classic Mac, I can only assume that you think I am totally insane and off my rocker for running both Hotline and Hermes II in SheepShaver on a 24" iMac running Yosemite.
What a contradiction, eh? 
To each his own, my friend, to each his own. In my case, I operate a Hotine server, a Hermes II BBS, four web domains, two messageboards, and a blog. Plus I am syndicated all over the place to most of the popular social networks. So I do it all, and I enjoy it all. The old and the new. So again, whatever floats your boat.
Surprisingly, my Hermes II BBS is getting considerably more traffic, so that seems to indicate where the interest lies.
At any rate, I think you are totally missing the point of my comments. While you may hold to the view that running a text- and PC-ANSI-based BBS on a Classic Mac makes no sense, there are in fact those few of us who still find it charming and quaint, because it takes us back to our roots when we were new computer users. This has nothing to do with whether or not it makes sense. It goes deeper than that.
Of course, that is NOT the only reason why I have resurrected my Hermes II BBS once again. As you well know, BBSing is a part of our computer history. As such, I want the younger generation to have an opportunity to see what we old geezers did with our computers, long before many of them were even born. Yes, the point-and-click generation may find it strange, archaic, and perhaps even challenging to have to constantly type things at the keyboard, but it will also be an experience for them.
If there is one thing that Steve Job believed in, it was in being unique, and being different. Well, my friend, in this day and age, you can't get any more unique and different than running "ancient" software like a PC-ANSI-based Bulletin Board Service on a modern, powerful Macintosh.
If you believe that it makes no sense to run a BBS on a Classic Mac, I can only assume that you think I am totally insane and off my rocker for running both Hotline and Hermes II in SheepShaver on a 24" iMac running Yosemite.
What a contradiction, eh?
To each his own, my friend, to each his own. In my case, I operate a Hotine server, a Hermes II BBS, four web domains, two messageboards, and a blog. Plus I am syndicated all over the place to most of the popular social networks. So I do it all, and I enjoy it all. The old and the new. So again, whatever floats your boat.