Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!mvb.saic.com!ncr-sd!serene!briand From: briand@rfengr.com (Brian Dear) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: news reader --- more Message-ID: <1990Dec07.081002.4698@rfengr.com> Date: 7 Dec 90 08:10:02 GMT References: <1990Dec05.010349.17570@rfengr.com> Reply-To: brian@coconut.com (Brian Dear) Organization: Coconut Computing, Inc. Lines: 28 Wow, I've been getting lots of inquiries about the COCONET(R) BBS software for NeXT. Here's the scoop: we are porting COCONET(R) from SCO UNIX/XENIX/PC-machines to Macs and NeXTs. We've got a NeXT-related BBS set up here in San Diego (the San Diego NeXT Users Group BBS-- running on COCONET software on a 386 host machine for now; we'll move it over to NeXT when we're ready to start testing. By the way, you're all welcome to try out the San Diego NeXT Users Group BBS. The number is 619-456-2522, 1200/2400 bps, N-8-1. We'll be adding a 9600 bps line some time soon.) COCONET, in 25-or-so words: a UNIX-based BBS/conferencing program that supports e-mail, group forums, file exchange, online bitmap and vector graphics, CocoTunes (i.e., music in messages), hyperlinking in messages, and other goodies. With the NeXT version, we plan to support some things other platforms don't have, like LipService, etc. If you would like some info on COCONET, send me your mailing address. We will indeed be looking for a few beta testers of the NeXT version of our software when the beta becomes available.... Let me know if you'd like to be a beta tester. Please direct e-mail to: brian@coconut.com Brian Dear Coconut Computing, Inc. La Jolla, CA