neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) (06/23/91)
I am looking for a good macintosh bbs program, anyone that could give me any suggestions and/or recommendations...I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance --Neil -- Neil Greene --- University of Kentucky Mathmatics and Sciences Kentucky NeXT User Group neil@graphlab.cc.uky.edu [NeXT Attachments]
ianf@chook.ua.oz (Ian Florance) (06/24/91)
> I am looking for a good macintosh bbs program, anyone that could give me any > suggestions and/or recommendations...I would greatly appreciate it. I can tell you two to avoid: Novalink and Red Ryder Host We tried these over a period of a year {as registered users} and although they were okay to the user the administrators job was not worth it. I think hermes is a bit suspect as well. We thought we might tried HyperBBS next since we might be able to program it ourselves. ___________________________________________ _--_|\ Ian Florance Phone : +6 18 228 5502 / \ The Univeristy of Adelaide Apple Consortium \_.--*_/ University of Adelaide, South Australia v
sjhg9320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (/dev/null ) (06/24/91)
As a SysOp for a few years for a Mac User Group, I'd have to say
that the best BBS program I've seen or used is Telefinder.
Although you need a custom interface to make the front end totally Mac-Like,
it has fast messaging, mailing, and file transfer capabilities and has
much less maintenance and headache involved than Hermes, NovaLink Pro,
Second Sight, Mansion, Hermes, or WWIV.
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In article <3772@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> ianf@chook.ua.oz (Ian Florance) writes: >> I am looking for a good macintosh bbs program, anyone that could give me any >> suggestions and/or recommendations...I would greatly appreciate it. > >I can tell you two to avoid: >Novalink and Red Ryder Host >We tried these over a period of a year {as registered users} and although >they were okay to the user the administrators job was not worth it. >I think hermes is a bit suspect as well. >We thought we might tried HyperBBS next since we might be able to program it >ourselves. Hermes is actually a pretty good BBS package for the Mac. I've been running a registered Hermes board for about a year and a half now, and I have few complaints. It allows for multiple nodes easily through the comm toolbox, has forumed message bases, full security for messages and transfers, message threading, and a slew of other features. It also supports externals to take care anything else you might need, and works with Tabby. It features a full Mac interface on the sysop's side, making most sysop tasks very easy to deal with. Justin Leavens
jason@runx.oz.au (Jason Haines) (06/25/91)
In article <3772@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> ianf@chook.ua.oz (Ian Florance) writes: >I can tell you two to avoid: >Novalink and Red Ryder Host >We tried these over a period of a year {as registered users} and although >they were okay to the user the administrators job was not worth it. >I think hermes is a bit suspect as well. >We thought we might tried HyperBBS next since we might be able to program it >ourselves. Try TeleFinder - it is a dream for the administrator and our members at Club Mac are very happy with it. Try giving (02) 907-9198 a call. _____________________________________________________________________________ | Jason Haines | | P.O. Box 97, North Strathfield, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA, 2137 | | Vox: +61-2-743-5997 BBS: +61-2-907-9198 (running TeleFinder) | | INTERNET:jason@runxtsa.runx.oz.au UUCP: uunet!runxtsa.runx.oz.au!jason | | ACSNet: jason@runxtsa.runx.oz | |_____________________________________________________________________________| -- _____________________________________________________________________________ | Jason Haines | | P.O. Box 97, North Strathfield, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA, 2137 | | Vox: +61-2-743-5997 BBS: +61-2-907-9198 (running TeleFinder) |
Nm156.@kcufgat.fidonet.org (will.Mclean) (06/26/91)
I give hermes a big thumbs up, have been running it for over a year, and find its the best supported, most solid, and friendliest use of any BBS avail for the mac ---Hermes 1.5 * Origin: FROM THE VOICE OF ENLIGHTENED GALACTIC OPINION (1:280/101)
rterry@hpcuhc.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry) (07/01/91)
>I give hermes a big thumbs up, have been running it for over a year, and find >its the best supported, most solid, and friendliest use of any BBS avail for >the mac If Hermes didn't have such a horrible user interface it might be okay. Until that improves I'll stick with Second Sight... Ray