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From: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: BBS project !!
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Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 13:00:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 29 13:00:28 1987
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In article <sV3T6Ay00WAKMUc1En@andrew.cmu.edu> aad+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>...  Have you ever heard of things
>like Fido and Opus?  You're gonna have to write a damn good product to
>compete with them.

Note that the goal wasn't competition, but quality.
Most BBSes are woefully inadequate in the user interface area, so something
that was compatible with the Fido/Opus/Echomail message exchange protocols
but capable of doing nifty graphics and avoiding needless retransmissions
when sending to user with a real computer rather than a terminal will
be very popular.

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					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.

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