Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!motown!mergvax!lilink!tbetz
From: tbetz@lilink.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix BBS Software
Summary: to me, better = Magpie
Message-ID: <619@lilink.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 00:15:04 GMT
References: <561@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> <4590@megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: tbetz@lilink.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Organization: Greyston Business Services, Inc.
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Quoth palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) in <4590@megatest.UUCP>:
|From article <561@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>, by flash@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Stephen Corbesero):
|> 
|> I need to put up a bulletin board system on Unix.  Although I have an
|> older version of XBBS, I tried to get a newer version, but alphacm
|> seems to have disappeared.
|> 
|> My questions are
|>   1) Are there any better BBS programs for unix than XBBS?
|>      a) If so, what and where are they?
|>      b) If not, how can I relocate alphacm?
|> 
|> Thanks in advance.

|   Out of all the UNIX bbs I have seen they all do the same thing.
|   Upload/download programs, have a message section and have access
|   to Usenet. Some have a command line parser but you get the same
|   results. So what do you mean by better?

By better >I< mean a coherent conversation-style message base
that permits one to follow a thread in the manner one would
follow a conversation, which permits archiving message structure
for as long as the sysop requires so it can later be followed in
a coherent manner, which provides a multiple-operator message
base search (including a fulltext by keyword - you gotta see it
to believe it!) and an on-line tutorial.

Call Magpie-HQ at 212-879-9031 to see what I mean.

I don't own Magpie, I just love to use it.


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