mclure@sri-unix (06/29/82)
I have just installed Notesfile here on sri-unix (2.8BSD v7 on 11/70) and I think it is easily the best bulletin board program I have used on Tenex, Tops-20, or Unix. Finally we have a bulletin board that groups by original + response rather than in a haphazard readnewsish manner. Installation was quick and painless due to the extensive and well-written Makefiles. We have not yet interfaced to news but plan that as the next step. Kudos to the authors. If you want a decent bboard for your Unix, this is it. Stuart
pavel (06/30/82)
#R:sri-unix:-194700:cornell:7800001:000:1184 cornell!pavel Jun 29 20:47:00 1982 Concerning the recent praise of the notesfiles system: 1) Yes, putting it up is fairly simple, but I would have appreciated an overview of the workings of the beast so that I could make more knowledgable decisions on certain of the local customisations. 2) It appears that the nice feature of grouping responses under the original doesn't work with news which is gotten from the USENET. I know that there's a References: field in the version B news articles, so this shouldn't be too hard. Is it the case that this really doesn't work, or have I done something wrong? 3) I think this is a really well done system which would work better if everyone was using it. There are obvious compromises that have been made in order to accommodate netnews. 4) The screen-oriented approach is clearly superior to the odious 'msgs' interface of readnews. 5) I think that this is worth your while to try out. And if you find out that a neighbor of yours is using it, I heartily recommend that the two of you use the notesfiles method for communicating and not to go through news unnecessarily. Pavel Curtis Cornell University