Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ddsw1!igloo!learn From: learn@igloo.UUCP (william vajk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: BBS software that runs under System V... Message-ID: <356@igloo.UUCP> Date: 14 Jan 88 00:36:54 GMT References: <1895@cadovax.UUCP> <8577@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Organization: igloo, Northbrook, IL Lines: 69 Summary: commercial software--head to head In article <8577@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes: > In article <1895@cadovax.UUCP> mitchell@cadovax.UUCP (Mitchell Lerner) writes: > | ... > | We are interested in starting a Cadol BBS. I would appreciate > | it if any of you know where I could get some BBS software that we > | could run under System V (shareware/public domain is preferable). > | > | Also, please mention some of the features of the package/program that > | you are refering to as there will be specific feature that we wil need. > > I am running two sets of software currently. They are: > > UNaXcess - contact allbery@ncoast.uucp > XBBS has a user interface similar to RBBS. It is less formal and well > suited for a more casual BBS. If the sysop is just keeping things under > control as opposed to heavy interraction, it is quite acceptable to run. > > > There are other BBSs out there, PicoSpan on chinet and magpie on > magpie. Pico is commercial, I don't think magpie is available to other > right now, when it is I'll run it because I like it. I run two commercial packages on igloo. Picospan was the package I started with, and while a tad pricy, I have never regretted my choice. Features multi-thread multiple conferences, with internal thread linking, full fairwitness features, availability of private conferences. Contact mike@m-net for pricing and ordering info. There are several large picospan installations (m-net, chinet, the Well, Chariot, fishnet, and several others I just can't recall, plus one in India.) I also run a second bbs aboard igloo, written by Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1) as a beta test site for his system. It has similar features to picospan, and is much lower in price. Linking software to network conferences among systems is included in AKSC. Currently, four systems share linked conferences, vp-net, ddsw1, igloo, and nucleus. AkCS is still reeceiving updates and constant upgrades. This sort of thing happens when a programmer also controls distribution. I have never called gryphon, run by greg laskin, and he is pruported to be running software written for the unix environment by Bill Blue. I know nothing of the availability of this software, but I understand that Bill can be contacted at gryphon. There is a list of public access unix boards published and maintained by wayne@warble, and updates seem to be coming with some regularity over pubnet. A wide diversity of bbs software is represented in that list. Anyone wishing a copy of the latest can mail to me, billw@killer, or wayne@warble