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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: BBS Systems Software. What's YOUR opinion?
Message-ID: <11264@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 15 Jun 88 19:50:07 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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  I have used and enjoyed Magpie, and am looking at running it on my
system (along with several other boards). However, I am not sure that
it's for everyone, because the threaded organization is not as natural
to some as others. You can get sidetracked down a thread and have a real
time getting back where you were. I've used it for some time now, since
the PC days, and as much as I like it I would say that it's great for
fairly dexterous users, but not the casual user who wants to log in and
be able to use the system quickly. I suspect that there's nothing better
for frequent users (as you describe yourself).

  I'm also looking at Citadel, and it has some of the features I like in
Magpie, at least as concepts. It has a mixture of msgs and files in a
more or less uniform manner, allows cross posting of files without
special intervention (separate msg areas can share file space), and
seems to have some very good admin tools, including fairwitness for
individual rooms as well as assistant sysops. I've only been testing for
a few days, so I can't comment more, other than the code structure is
fair and the readability is good.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me