Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Amiga BBS software Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 00:50:28 GMT References: <6767@uafhp.uark.edu><7512@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Distribution: world Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 42 lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes: >In article <6767@uafhp.uark.edu> kcampbel@uafhp.uark.edu (Keith Alan Campbell) >| >| A friend of mine is considering starting up a local BBS using either his 300 >| or a 1000 dedicated just for the BBS. He'd like to know what software is >| available, either commercial or PD, that can handle fidonet and/or usenet ne >| and email. >| >| Thanks! > >Well, falling into that catagory in the commercial arena are: Dialog >(fido & usenet), Paragon/StarNet (FidoNet recieve and send and Usenet >Receive only), C-Net (Usenet), XenoLink (FidoNet) Don't expect C-Net to run on an A3000 under 2.0... All the Amiga BBS's are really lame...I'm running C-Net right now, but always looking for something else...Seems everyone wants $200 for a program and are out of state with no 800 number support lines...(For that price, I want FREE SUPPORT).. Everything looks like TAG, flat message bases, screwball commands, etc, C-Net is allmost standard in this area, everyone is confortable with it at least... We have a local Skyline board, and let me tell ya, that really blows...I hear good/bad about DLG Professional...And the guy at Shareware HQ keeps telling me that FreeForm will be good(again, one mans opinion)... Last time I checked C-Net sold 300++ copies in its first year, and I have been running it from the begining, and its been very rough, Ken Pletzer isn't a world class programmer and has bad luck with using null pointers that have always driven any hardware configuration I have had nuts(but others don't have problems)...With C-Net, you're a beta tester...But Pletzer has installed allmost EVERY suggestion I ever made to him, so he's more responsive than some others I have delt with... -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) If I had a nickel for every time Elizabeth Taylor was married I would have $.35