🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all.

I am trying to find a good high-quality Bulletin Boards System (BBS) to
replace the current software that we are using on our UNIX box.  Does
anyone know of, or able to give me information about what they consider to be
good software, both from a user perspective as well as maintainence from 
a sysop point of view.

Both shareware or commercial software would be considered.

We currently have available to our userbase, Usenet, Clarinet and a selection
of fidonet newsgroups. These are available through several newsreaders 
which may be selected by the users.  Namely TRN, RN and TASS.  We use
ELM as our mailer front end.

The Unix system is:

Interactive Unix SYS V 3.2 3.0.  Running on a Zenith 386/33.
We also have BSD386 on another system and are considering moving our
entire operations over to it.

Any software considered must support:

1. At least TRN (Threaded type newsreader) or allow us to make it available
   to users via an external function.  User must be able to save news
   articles and later download them via modem.

2. Have an excellant user interface for e-mail, allowing messages to be
   saved to a file or folders and accessed again later or downloaded.  Also
   users must be able to upload messages via a modem to be e-mailed out.

3. Support user accounting.  By this I mean that we need some sort of
   method of keeping track of users that have subscribed to the services
   we offer and that will automatically change there access level once
   that subscription period has expired. This would need to include some
   sort of on-line questionnaire that users can fill in to gain access to
   the subscription services we have available.

4. Private user groups for different groups who wish to set up there own
   private conferences and a means for a group member to be able to act
   as a sysop for this particular group.  i.e. to add users when necessay.

5. A comprehensive multi-level files area.

6. Source-code would be necessary so that we can build in extra local
   requirements.

If you know of anything that might fit this discription I would appreciate
hearing from you.  If I receive enough feedback I will be happy to
summarize my findings to this newsgroup.

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john@actrix.gen.nz