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From: lupin3@UCSCB.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Multiuser BBS
Message-ID: <8712310541.AA18899@ucscb.UCSC.EDU>
Date: 31 Dec 87 05:41:33 GMT
References: <8712221448.AA21644@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <39@lzaz.ATT.COM> <1479@saturn.ucsc.edu> <918@atari.UUCP>
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Organization: Uncle Charlies Summer Camp (UC Santa Cruz)
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Keywords: FoReM is "user hostile"... always loved that term

+-In article <918@atari.UUCP>, neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) wrote:-
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| FoReM 2.0 supports Fnet, so if we wanted to go to approach #3 we could do
| it.  But with the number of novice callers we get, I'm a bit leery of using
								
| FoReM.  Any comments to the contrary, netlanders?
|(lines deleted) 
| BB/ST is very powerful, and Steven Grimm is working on the multi-line
| facility.  But we're still waiting on some hardware.  QMI is a great little
| company, but I know they're (almost) as overworked as we are at Atari.  So,
| timetables for this are in doubt.  Also, BB/ST's tree-structured message
| base is not my cup of tea.
|
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And you're considering using BB/ST?  Okay, it isn't as downright abrasive
as FoReM ST, but I have never found it particularly intuitive, easy to use,
or really fun.  True, the sysop functions are neat (from what I hear...),
and I suppose it's pretty powerful, but it's still got that true tree-structure
message thingie, and it's just not _keen_. <<= opinions, guys...

Of course, if you loan one of these developers an Abaq for a while, they might
be more than happy to write up a multi-user message base that reads messages
off a LAN... I know Steve would... :')

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