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In article 23588@news.Hawaii.Edu, ivan@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Ivan Gum) writes:
>Hi, I'm having a very hard time trying to find a good, inexpensive BBS that
>has Strong message features and is easy and intuitive for the users to use.
>
>SearchLight is too expensive for my budget.
>
>I've been looking at Remote Access and Maximus. 
[..]

From the users' point of view, I find that RBBS-PC's full screen editor is very nice,
however I don't have any experience Sysoping an RBBS board.

RBBS is free, BTW, and has oogles of programs out there to support it, doors,
utils, etc...

If you are looking for sheer SPEED, Spitfire BBS ($85), has the fastest message
bases around -- I run 200+ mesage conf's with a total of about 17,000 mesages at
any given time - and for a user to scan ALL of the message bases for new mail
it takes only about 35 seconds - on a 386/33 DX machine with 4M RAM and a 2M
SMARTDRV....

On the sysop end, Spitfire is pretty nice too - however, inserting a conference
in the middle of those 200, will take you about 4 minutes, as all the appropriate
files must be renamed :-)

Cheers,
Howie

BTW -> Spitfire's on-line message editor is simple but effective - if you are
SERIOUS about messaging then OFF LINE mail doors are the way to go!