Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!nuchat!xcluud!cchen From: cchen@xcluud.sccsi.com (Conway Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple ][ BBS Software Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 20:38:17 GMT References: <1991May22.231629.9571@crash.cts.com> Organization: Greater Montrose UFO Appreciation Society Lines: 37 bbarba@pro-torii.cts.com (Bob Barba) writes: > In-Reply-To: message from grohol@novavax.UUCP > > >>Hello everyone, I am interested to setup me own BBS but I do not have any > >>experiment. Could anyone provide me the information regarding to how to > >>setup BBS, what kind of BBS software I should use. What kind of thing I > >>should aware of. > > >I can only assume you are running some kind of Apple II (since ya posted > >it here...) So that leaves you with about 6 choices, 2 of which are > >the only real programs to run on an Apple II for a BBS. > > >GBBS Pro (from L&L) is the "standard" of Apple II BBS's. > [ Stuff about GBBS deleted] > >Metal is the newcomer. > [Stuff about METAL deleted] > > There is another BBS software program that FAR exceeds, any Apple ][ BBS > programs that I have ever used. The software is called Pro-Line. > Ease of use, OUTSTANDING TECH SUPPORT, from the author MORGAN DAVIS, and the > other Pro-Line SysOps, NETWORKING capability. are just some of the features > that are available today. Call Pro-Sol (Pro-Lines, first BBS) at > 1+619/670-5379 to see Pro-Line in action. > > UUCP: crash!pro-torii!bbarba | Hrs: 8pm - 5am Mon-Thr I'm quite sure many more pro-line bbs's would be around, but there is one major problem with pro-line. It costs too much compared to other BBS system software packages. What's more, the other ones are lanugaes themselves and new BBS software that is totally original can be written with it. But, otherwise, proline is wonderful, with a unix like shell and nusenet capabailities... -- Conway Chen cchen@xcluud.sccsi.com uunet!nuchat!xcluud!cchen