tbetz@lilink.UUCP (Tom Betz) (05/02/89)
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. | | To me better would be something like embedded SQL database built | into the bbs or an Xwindow client/server type BBS to support | graphics. | | ---Bob | | |-- | Bob Palowoda | Work: {sun,decwrl,pyramid}!megatest!palowoda | Home: {sun}ys2!fiver!palowoda | BBS: (415)796-3686 2400/1200 Voice:(415)745-7749 -- "Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys, | Tom Betz, 114 Woodworth Ave. Bedlam boys are bonny, for they all go bare, | Yonkers, NY 10701-2509 and they live by the air, and they want | decvax!mergvax!lilink!tbetz nor drink nor money." - Steeleye Span | cmcl2!hombre!lilink!tbetz