IJ>> Does anyone still use RA .. or have Ya'll changed over to
 IJ>> ele??

 MD>         Still running RA with MSdos 6.20 and Desqview 2.42 on
 MD> a 5x86 machine.

that's great to hear!

 MD> If I ever get around to putting Windows XP on one of my
 MD> Pentium machines I will probably have to switch over to Ele

why? the current RA should run just fine on newer machines and operating systems...

 MD> since Bruce hasn't come out with a new version of RA that
 MD> has comparable features to Ele (can't really blame him,

AIUI, Ele doesn't have all the features of the latest RA but i may be
mistaken on that...

 MD> there's nowhere enough demand out there for RA anymore to
 MD> justify expending any time or effort on an update).

that's common with all the old(er) DOS based BBS systems... everyone on the
internet has a completely different idea of what a BBS is... to them, chat
forums puilt on phpBB, UBBThreads and such are BBS'... what i'd like to do
is to either get RA (and fidonet stuff) interfaced with mySQL (and phpBB)
/or/ get phpBB to read and write RA's userbase and messagebase files...
doubt that any of that will ever happen, though :(

)\/(ark