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s4uhkm@fnma.COM (Howie Michalski) writes:
>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....

  Hmmm well I have a BBS system (45 pounds) that will do that in about half 
the time, plus it can check for new conference mail to the user in a fraction 
of a second.


>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 :-)

  Hmmm...  Has it got a wimp sysop interface?

>Cheers,
>Howie