Need BBS with Strong Messaging

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2 total messages Started by Ivan Gum Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:11

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Author: Ivan Gum
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:11

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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.  Maximus has a very irritating
problem with scrolling the message body off (clearing the screen).  I tried to
get around it (believe me, I tried lots of creative ways) but none worked well. If you turn of ScreenScrolling, whenever a person replies or enters a message,
Maximus's built-in editor fails to clear the screen so the user has to enter 
their message while there is garbage on the screen.  Annoying.

Remote Access, on the other hand, has the message areas set up so that its very
difficult to add, insert, delete new/old message areas as the board grows. Its
message numbering scheme is also not as nice as Maximus, however, it doesn't 
have the problem with scrolling the body off (actually it may, but this can be
fixed by changing the configuration).

PLEASE HELP ME! I need a BBS with Strong Messaging.  I'm finding out that there
are a lot of BBS programs but few with this very important feature.

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Re: Need BBS with Strong Messaging

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Author: Howie Michalski
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:11

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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!

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