[misc.handicap] bbs that works well with speach

Shawn.Keene@f10.n130.z1.fidonet.org (Shawn Keene) (02/05/91)

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does anyone no of a bbs that works well with speech and is easy to set up
not ros qbbs or ra there a little
complacated for a new ibm user.
what about tellagard or spit fire.

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Tandy.Way@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Tandy Way) (02/05/91)

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 SK> does anyone no of a bbs that works well with speech and is easy
 SK> to set up not ros qbbs or ra there a little
 well I think pc board by far and away is the easist to set up it gives
 you an instalation program that creates suggested defaults and
 subdirectories to start with and as you get familar you can tweek it to
 your own tasts.  it is commercial software but you get real good tech
 support. opus is okay if you have help locally or remotely but trying
 it alone is a real bare.  if you wish to be a part of fido net though
 you would be better to go with opus barefoot or with binkley as a front
 end. I am adding binkly this weekend.

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Dave.Tanner@p0.f210.n273.z1.fidonet.org (Dave Tanner) (02/05/91)

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Don't get the idea that any bbs is going to be super easy to set
up, because you will find that while most features may be easy on
one or another package there will be something that will challenge
you, especially as a beginner.  However, I usually recommend to a
beginner that the may want to try an older version of FIDO BBS such
as version 11W.  It is easy enough to set up, provides net mail,
and echo mail capacity, if you want to be FIDO NET compatable.
Once you have your feet on the ground with the basics and are
confortable with that system you can make a more intelligent
decision about moving on to something more sophisticated, if you
want more features, at a later date.  If you decide you would like
to give that system a try let me know and I can probably supply you
with everything you would need to get started.

If you have been on Maximus or Opus boards the FIDO menu system
will look very similar and a conversion from FIDO to Opus or Max
would not be extreemly difficult later.

     Dave Tanner

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Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro) (02/06/91)

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Dave,

     I think that Sapphire might also do as a starter board (unless you
want to go FidoNet).  Btw, does anyone have Maximus?  Want to take a look.

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Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro) (03/26/91)

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Dave,

     That's funny.  I'm moving in the opposite direction.  I'm looking for
a bbs that requires less fiddling <grin>.  Mellowing?  Hell no.  Just
getting lazy.  It's getting to the point where I'm looking at Sapphire and
shying away from both the Quickbbs clones, and the XBBS/Socrates meta-bbs
systems.  Give me something out of the box <grin>.

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