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From: jacobson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (R J Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: BBS software
Keywords: BBS
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.154405.11150@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 90 15:44:05 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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I have spent nearly a year working with Red Ryder Host (now Second Sight)
and Tabby 2.2 (mailer software for Fidonet). Our Plus died two weeks ago
and I got the external hard drive up on my own SE/30 for that time. Then
two days ago, the Tabby sofware got all kinds of cryptic errors with
write access and corrupted files. I could not restore this, and then
had BBS problems. My backup copy of the BBS (Second Site) and Tabby
software was also bad. Thus I am back to square one. I did not set up
this BBS but it is a setup by others. I do not have the inclination to
try and set this up from scratch. I do not like SS nor Tabby they both
seem foreign to the Mac interface concepts. I have also played with
Mansion, Hermes and FBBS. None of these seem to be in line with the
Mac way of doing things.
 
What I am looking for is a very good commercial BBS package that is
user friendly/intuitive (the mac way of things) both for the sysop and
the user. I have heard of some packages that even do Mac graphics. Obviously
such software is for the Mac only, but that is what I am looking for. This
BBS is for a Mac user group.
 
Also with Tabby we interfaced with fidonet. I know that Tabby is the only
Mac software so far to work with fidonet. Are there any easier to use
fidonet packages on the horizon, and if so do they work with a easier to
use Mac BBS program.
 
If fidonet is not a possibilty does a mailer package exist like Tabby that
would interface a BBS with this network? There are a number of users in our
Mac group that do not have access to machines on this network. So if I could
find a good replacement to fidonet that instead interfaced this network(s) 
(ie News) with a BBS package on the Mac I think that having this access for
my user group BBS would be a great improvement/substitute for the fidonet
that only seems accessable from tabby. I did not set up tabby either (the
fellow who did it for us died this summer) so I am not inclined to try and
set this up from scratch since my hard drive and backups failed me. I do
not find tabby any more Mac like (easy to use/intuitive). So are there
alternatives like I am asking for, or am I out of luck?
 
Feel free to post here, but I would like email directly on this subject.
Thanks for your time and help!

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Russ Jacobson
Illinois Geological Survey
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