fleming@cup.portal.com (Stephen R Fleming) (05/30/90)
My company is informally examining the idea of setting up an internal
marketing BBS. We already have (and use) electronic mail via a
proprietary mainframe application. What we need now:
1) A set of product-specific conferences where far-flung members
of the corporation can leave text messages without knowing the
correct recipient (pretty common as our operations span
God-knows-how-many locations and time zones). Some sort of
thread-following mechanism would be essential to help the users filter
out the noise.
2) A listings area where binary Macintosh files may be stored and
exchanged. Most likely lingua franca between all our comm
programs would be XMODEM, but Y- and Z- would be nice.
Most of the big BBS systems I have heard of run on PC-ATs. Naturally,
I'd prefer a Macintosh. Are there any Mac BBSes out there which canw3
handle half-a-dozen incoming lines simultaneously? (I figure we take a
dusty old Mac II out of the closet, stick five Hayes 2400M modems in
the internal slots and hang another out the serial port.) Does anyone
have experience running something like this? Are there consultants
specializing in setting up in-house services like this?
I need to sound intelligent about our options pretty quickly, so
speedy responses would be welcomed. Thank you!
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