[comp.unix.questions] Unix Bulletin Boards

rburns@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (The Yogi from Muskogee) (10/08/87)

I got several interesting responses to my request for information on 
bulletin boards.  All the products I looked at had a lot of interesting
capability, yet I didn't see anything that completely suited our needs.
The major deficiency is user interface.  All of our user's have vt100
terminals.  We would prefer bboard software that takes advantage of this
terminal's capability.  For example, we would like to use the cursor keys to
point to and select a message to be read or responded to.  My boss has
used and like the DIAL software used by Microsoft's product support
department.  I would greatly appreciate information any such systems. 


Three fairly established vendors replied:

Inner Loop Software--DLX:
213-822-2800

Unicon--PICO Span
313-996-2663

MCS -- AKCS.

Dial: (312) 566-8909
	    566-8911
	    566-8912  (last 2 run 1200-2400, first number is 300-1200)

Several people also made reference to UNaXCESS by Brandon Alberry.