Subj : Re: What BBS Software is still available out there these days?
To   : Conner Destron
From : mrproper
Date : Sun Aug 08 2004 02:06 am

  To: "Conner Destron" <me@privacy.net>
  Re: Re: What BBS Software is still available out there these days?
  By: "Conner Destron" <me@privacy.net> to alt.bbs.ads on Fri Aug 06 2004 01:54 am

 > "Time Warrior" <time.warrior@malkaviabbs.com.remove-rns-this>
 > wrote...
 > >   By: "Conner Destron" <me@privacy.net> to alt.bbs.ads on Thu
 > Aug 05 2004 08:05 pm
 > >
 > >  > Hey guys, I know this is probably not the right newsgroup
 > for
 > >  > this question, but who better than a bunch of SysOps should
 > I ask?
 > >
 > >  > ...My question, as stated in the subject, is simply what BBS
 > software
 > >  > is still available these days? I'm looking for a "upgrade"
 > to
 > >  > something Windows based and I know about Synchronet and
 > Worldgroup,
 > >  > but are there any others out there? (Worldgroup's too damn
 > expensive
 > >  > to upgrade from and I'd like some options before I go with
 > >  > Synchronet just because it's the only one I could find,
 > though it's
 > >  > definitely got the right price....)
 > >
 > > Unfortunately, for a true Win32 BBS (that doesn't co$t)
 > Synchronet is the
 > > only opinion. As far as options that are not free, the only
 > ones I can think
 > > of are Major and Wildcat.
 > >
 > > There are WinDOS based ones, such as Mystic and EleBBS -- but
 > IMHO, those
 > > things don't have quite the configurability, functionality,
 > stability, and
 > > security of Synchronet. I used to run Mystic.
 > 
 > Thanks for the quick response, Time Warrior, I did some web
 > searching on my own and downloaded Mystic, Osiris, PBBS, &
 > Synchronet (already have a DOS version of Worldgroup [Major]
 > running from my last BBS experience and have seen Wildcat before
 > in it's DOS days) and was starting to get that same perspective.
 > It's really quite a shame, there use to be dozens of BBS
 > softwares to choose from back in the DOS days, but now that
 > WinBlows has taken over the scene the BBS seems to be dying off
 > as we once knew it. :(
 > If I can't find a viable alternative, I'll be switching to
 > synchronet to re-establish my BBS, The Castle's Dungeon, very
 > shortly. viable meaning lower cost than MBBS or WC and still
 > reasonably configurable and able to establish the differentiation
 > of areas/user levels that I want.... seems like under DOS that
 > would've been asking so little..... *sigh*
 >         -=Conner=-

You really want to stick to synchronet... You can make it ool like any bbs you
like... or hell you can make it look like a unix shell system if you like :)
there are really no limitatiions... I've been having fun with my Snchronet BBS
for over 3 years now :)


MrProper:

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