-=>> Sean Dennis wrote to ROBERT WOLFE <=-


 SD>> Yeah, what I should have stuck with back in 1997 when I first started
 SD>> playing with BBS software to set up my own board.  I'm quite happy with
 SD>> it and even though I was given a brand-new fully legal (and
 SD>> registerable) copy of WINServer 5, I'm sticking to it.  I love it.  I
 SD>> should have just stuck with it from the get-go.

 MM>  Did the former author of ProBoard tried to take the software back
 MM>  from Mr.Clawson?

Aparently there is a guy, "John Riley", who claims to have bought
the rights to PB off of Pat Clawson, but that Pat Clawson ended up -not-
providing the source code and that Pat claimed he only sold the rights to
the use of the name of ProBoard and ther right to release new versions of
it, but that he didn't sell the actual source code itself (or something
like that... it's confusing to me).

Anyway, the guy has been claiming a new 32bit release if pending, and
supposedly had a small development team working on it, but since I found
out about this over a year ago I haven't seen anything happen except the
guy making a faulty windows installer for the 2.17 release that claims to
be freeware.

Personaly I loved ProBoard and have considered setting it up again. There
is an FAQ on the guys BBS that can help you set up PB 2.17 with GameSrv as
a telent front end rather qickly if you want.

The BBS is at telnet://proboardbbs.com

Phil

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