Cue the compulsory 100+ post "Reminiscing about Dialup BBS Days" tangent...

I always found WWIV too yucky to deal with. Even with mods... I never found a modded WWIV board I could tolerate. Telegard (and its successor Renegade) were acceptable out of the box, and customizable enough that you didn't need to mod the source code.

Waiting for Barren Realms Elite / Dopewars / Legend of the Red Dragon sub-tangent in 3... 2... 1...