Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ho95e!wcs
From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: UNIX bbs program wanted !
Summary: Why not netnews and uucp?
Keywords: BBS, UNIX, SOURCE
Message-ID: <1964@ho95e.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 88 03:34:06 GMT
References: <553@tnosel.UUCP> <518@wb3ffv.UUCP> <1293@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart,2G218,x0705,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs 46133, Holmdel, NJ
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This request seems to pop up about once a month.  If you want a system
packaged like a BBS, unaxcess has been posted to comp.sources.unix some
aeons ago, so check your archive sources.  But really, don't you *have*
a BBS already?  BBSs provide two things: a discussion forum (you've got
netnews, or you wouldn't be reading this), and a way of downloading files.  
One approach is to create a newsgroup and never expire the articles.
Alternatively, create a directory /usr/spool/uucppublic/bbs, with uucp
permissions set so everyone can request articles from it (so you don't
need to keep everyone in your L.sys file), and keep an up-to-date file
called /usr/spool/uucppublic/bbs/Index that says what files are there.
If the directory gets too big, make subdirectories.
	If the purpose of the BBS is to distribute MS-DOS software,
get the UUPC package, which lets people run uucp on MS-DOS.
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#				Thanks;
# Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs