Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ox.com!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!vela!lmbailey From: lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Amiga BBS software Message-ID: <7577@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 28 Jun 91 04:31:20 GMT References: <6767@uafhp.uark.edu> <7512@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Organization: Lemming-Aid 1992 - Benefit Concert To Save The Lemmings Lines: 59 In article rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: [...bunch of earlier stuff deleted...] | | Don't expect C-Net to run on an A3000 under 2.0... Okay, I didn't know that. | | 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).. I can agree with that. My boyfriend, Les Jenkins, has been on your system and runs his own system under Paragon/StarNet (Just about to go back on-line sometime next week with a new GVP Series II controller.) Les is also looking for something new and has applied to be a beta-tester for Free Form BBS that Bill at Sharewarer's HQ keeps going on about. So far Free Form sounds like the best contender. | | 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)... Agreed. Les is on Amiga Bank which is local to him and is also a C-Net Amiga. It's not bad, but Les won't buy it unless it supports Fidonet. True it does support UseNet, but he doesn't have the HD room for all the newsgroups he'd want to carry. | | 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... Les has told me old stories about Ken. I think the statement that "With C-Net, you're a beta tester" applies to most of the BBS systems out right now. Paragon is making the switch to StarNet and it still has many rough edges. Dialog is still in Beta-form and hasn't been released as a full release yet. Xenolink was still beta last I checked as well. I wish something would come out that supported ANSI in the messages as well as TAG for the IBM does. Laurana -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ |Just another lemming... | Yet another Amiga maniac set loose | | | on the world...and you thought things| |lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu | couldn't get any worse. |