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1 total messages Started by G. Wolfe Woodbury Tue, 14 Dec 1993 06:07
Changes to UNIX BBS Software FAQ with Answers
#681
Author: G. Wolfe Woodbury
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 06:07
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Archive-name: unix-faq/bbs-software/diff
Version: 1.1
Last-modified: 1993/12/14

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> Supercedes: <unix-faq/bbs-software/faq_755849187@Wolves.Durham.NC.US>
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< Version: 1.1
< Last-modified: 1993/12/14
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> Version: 1.0
> Last-modified: 1993/11/10
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< It is posted approximately monthly.
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> It is posted monthly.
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< 
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< Some of the commercial computer service providers (e.g. CompuServe,
< Prodigy, America OnLine, etc.) provide BBS systems in addition to their
< regular services.
< 
< Care should be taken to distinguish between the "public" messages of a
< BBS system and "private" Electronic Mail message services that may be
< provided by a computer service.
< 
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< From: news@wolves.durham.nc.us (G. Wolfe Woodbury)
< Date: Tue Dec 14 00:54:16 EST 1993
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> From: news@wolves.durham.nc.us
> Date: Wed Aug 11 19:38:23 EDT 1993
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< in the newsgroup "news.announce.newusers" and the newsgroup "news.answers" 
< that provide much more information about this topic.
< 
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> in the newsgroup "news.announce.newusers" that provide much more
> information about this topic.
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< Date: Tue Dec 14 00:27:26 EST 1993
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> Date: Wed Jun  9 22:43:49 EDT 1993
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< 	WhatBBS (a perl BBS)
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> 	Pnet
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< Obsolete, covered
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> Obsolete, not covered
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> 	UnAccess
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< Minimal/Nil/No Coverage (by request)
< 
< 	Chris Petrelli's groupware project (by request)
< 	Pnet (no coverage at request of B.Blue)
< 	UnAccess (request by Brandon Alberry, the author)
< 
< 
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> Some of the packages may appear at sunsite.unc.edu for Anonymous FTP.
> (If you don't know about Anonymous FTP, look for the FTP FAQ in news.answers.)
> 
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< Date: Tue Dec 14 00:46:46 EST 1993
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> Date: Wed Aug 11 19:42:58 EDT 1993
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< Thomas Mechtersheimer, Bill Schwartz, Brian Dear(!), Bill Blue(!),
< Jared Quinn(!)
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> Thomas Mechtersheimer, Bill Schwartz, Brian Dear(!)
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< 
< UNIX is a trademark of Unix System Laboratories, Inc.  Other names are
< also trademarks and service marks of their various owners.  Their use in
< this message is not intended to convey any ideas other than the use of
< the names for identification purposes.
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< 
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< Date: Tue Dec 14 00:58:41 EST 1993
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> Date: Wed Aug 11 19:40:09 EDT 1993
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< Volker announced a new version recently, and there is an MBox mailing
< list.
< 
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< Subject: Pnet
< Date: Tue Dec 14 00:33:30 EST 1993
< From: news@wolves.durham.nc.us (G. Wolfe Woodbury)
< 
< Pnet			commercial		unknown
< 						NetNews unknown
< 	
<      contact:	Bill Blue
< 		bblue@crash.cts.com
< 
< 	Bill Blue admits that there is a program that is "called Pnet by
< the uninitiated"  but he requests that the UnixBBS FAQ not provide any
< summary of the package.  Don't bother the gentleman, folks.
< 
< ------------------------------
< 
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< Date: Thu Nov 25 14:07:48 EST 1993
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> Date: Mon Jul 12 13:18:43 EDT 1993
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< There is a little confusion about whether the NoDak bbs is the same as
< the "quebbs" that is listed as available for Coherent.  Here is the
< results of an Archie search for quebbs.
< 
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< Host nctuccca.edu.tw   (140.111.1.10 or 192.83.166.10)
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> Host nctuccca.edu.tw   (140.111.3.21)
> Last updated 21:44 11 Jun 1993
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< [Sequent 4+ cpu starts at 15,000, full: 40,200.  Most systems are going
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> [Sequent 4+ cpu starts at 15,000, total 40,200.  Most systems are going
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< 
< ------------------------------
< 
< Subject: WhatBBS
< Date: Tue Dec 14 00:28:47 EST 1993
< From: news@wolves.durham.nc.us (G. Wolfe Woodbury)
< 
< WhatBBS			free?			source provided
< 						NetNews unknown
< 	
<      contact:	Jared Quinn
< 		jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au
< 
<      demo:	unknown
< 
< 	Jared Quinn posted some information about a Perl BBS to alt.bbs
< some time ago, and I haven't heard anything else about it for a while.
-- 
G. Wolfe Woodbury - Usenet Admin @ Wolves.Durham.NC.US
"The flame war is a specific Usenet art form." --me
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