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From: dynasoft!john@stag.UUCP (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: BBS software
Message-ID: <0420892051540761@dynasoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 89 01:51:54 GMT
Reply-To: dynasoft!john@stag.UUCP (John Stanley)
Organization: DynaSoft Systems, Minneapolis, MN.
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["Hugh_Messenger.EuroPARC"@XEROX.COM writes...]

> I'm interested in starting a small BBS.  Has anyone got any suggestions as
> to software I can buy?

 There are a number of good programs available, commercial, shareware and PD.


> I'll only have one line in to the BBS, so I don't need anything fancy.  The
> system will primarily be used for information exchange rather than software
> exchange or game playing.

  If you plan on concentrating on discussion, the best (in my opinion)
system is STadel (an ST Citadel port) which also has the advantage that
it's non-commercial...  The metaphor that Citadel is based on tends to
encourage discussion and idea exchange rather than file exchange.  Even
so, STadel does have good file up/down-loading capabilities for the files
you find that you want to share.


> I have a Mega 4 with 80Mb of hard disk and a V22BIS auto answer modem.

  The machine you describe would run STadel (and just about anything else)
QUITE easily...  :^)

>    -- Hugh

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John Stanley <dynasoft!john@stag.UUCP>
Software Consultant / Dynasoft Systems