Re: Multi Line BBS

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From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:32

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In article <1992Dec18.080158.19384@netcom.com> jscoggin@netcom.com (Jerry Scoggins) writes:
>Mark Kern writes
>>What products exist on the Next to make it suitable for a multi-line
>>dialup BBS?  How much would it cost for the modem hardware?  Are there
>>good programming
>>tools for programming such a BBS?  If so, I am very interested in buying
>>a Next computer.
>>
>> Markus
>
>As others have pointed out, the operating system is perfect.  Create an
>anonymous account with very limited privs, or a restricted shell for
>requesting an account and then assign real accounts after you have verified
>them.	A NeXT can have more features than BBS's could ever dream to have.
>Set up SLIP, feed nntp(news) or smtp(mail), etc...

    Any computer is suited for BBS programs, but the NeXT is definitely
    *NOT* suited for arbitrary (unknown) user accounts, it is simply too
    easy to crash the machine.

    * No quotas
    * If you fill up the disk and the NeXT runs out of swap it crashes
      hard.
    * No resource limits (NeXT ignores everything but the stack size limit)
    * No process/thread limits

					    -Matt

>If you find more info, I'd be interested to hear.
>
>++jerry(); // jscoggin@netcom.netcom.com

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From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re:  Multi Line BBS
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