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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga BBS software
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Date: 27 Jun 91 08:05:01 GMT
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> Don't expect C-Net to run on an A3000 under 2.0...
 
I know of 2 people running C-Net under 2.0 on 3000's and i know of a developer
running C-Net under 2.0 on a 2500.
 
> 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)..
 
You want someone who's only sold 300+ copies of a program to give you toll
free
support?  your crazy.  you won't see toll free support on IBM programs unless
they've sold over 1 million copies.
 
> 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)...
 
NOTHING i know of looks like TAG other than TAG.  What do you mean by flat
message bases?  and the commands in C-Net are customizable, so if you think
they're screwball change them.
 
> 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...
>
 
He's not THAT bad... you just seem to have had some bad experiences.  With
C-Net
your a beta tester if you WANT to be a beta tester.  he's said that if you
don't
feel comfortable beta testing, stick with the last official release.
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