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 >    My problems with Front Door were due basically to a technical
 > reading level beyond my own. I thought that the author assumed that
 > users were also technically literate and that was probably true at
 > one time.

The FrontDoor manual *is* very poor and FrontDoor is a very complex package.  It certainly took me a while to work out (With help I add !).

 > ..... I need something that I can set up fast and not have
 > to worry about too much. I think this requirement would be true for
 > any educational setting.

Well myself and Rik Lister are embarking on a project to write a full mail reading/writing system that could communicate with a FrontDoor type system. It would be easy to use, easy to set-up, fully windowed with lots of features.  I must stress however it is only just started so  don't hold your breath :-)

 > Maximus that I have been told will solve my requirement problem.

Maybe, maybe not!  Personally I consider RemoteAccess easy to use.  If you can understand the menu setup and structure then the rest is a breeze.

You must bear in mind however that you will still need a mailer program to connect into K12 and FidoNet (Or anything similar).  Did I not mention D'Bridge by Chris Irwin before ?  If not it is well worth getting a copy of this as it is a very simple, but powerful, program.

 > After I get things going I'll let you know how it works out. I'm
 > interested to hear what your doing to tie into the internet. I have
 > heard of this but have never had the opportunity to use it.

R-Net will be directly connected into Internet via a gateway at Salford Uni.  This will mean that most Internet sites will be able to participate in the conferences although the data-base distribution network and the file transfers will be R-Net (FTS compatible mailers) only.

Anyway to summarize I'd say go for D'Bridge and Maximus and you shouldn't have too many problems.

Best regards,
-- Ian.


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