[alt.bbs] Unix-based BBS info needed

mab@j.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Brown) (05/31/89)

We run a PC-based Opus BBS to provide file up/download and
communications services for our user community.  I'm looking into
moving the BBS services to a Unix host (probably Sequent Symmetry), to
provide:
  - better connectivity
  - more simultaneous access
  - access to Usenet newsgroups
  - access to Unix ftp directories
  - less duplication of Unix vs PC file maintenance activities

I'm aware of three possibilities:
  - UNaXcess (what's the latest and greatest version?)
  - anything in the MIT Athena stuff?
  - anything in the CMU Andrew stuff?

I'd appreciate getting info on these, or any other alternatives.
Will post a summary in a few weeks of email responses, subject to
respondents' "don't post this" requests.





Mike Brown, Network Systems Programmer		ARPANET: mab@cc.purdue.edu
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Mike Brown, Network Systems Programmer		ARPANET: mab@cc.purdue.edu
Purdue University Computing Center		BITNET:  xmab@purccvm
Mathematical Sciences Building			PHONE:   (317) 494-1787
West Lafayette, IN 47907