AG> Personally, I would love to see/own a BBS server that is written in SQL.
 AG> I'd write it myself if I had time. The database technology had 30 years
 AG> of finding out how to do this stuff. Much better than anyone's first
 AG> attempt at doing it by hand, even yours, I would guess. 
 AG> No insult intended.

There's a reason I was considering using DB2 as the database behind any BBS
I wrote... :-)  And this has NOTHING to do with the fact that DB2 hired me.
 :-}

However, for security purposes, the server would not be DB2 itself, but my
own server that would act as a "go-between"... partially to allow
multiple client styles - i.e., the standard ASCII via modem as well as,
say, a user on the lan, or even wan - or a graphical interface or...
whatever I (or others) would come up with as a client.  This would separate
the security issues from the BBS interface - so the "sysop" on
the server could ensure that data integrity was followed (anyone without
access to OS2PROG due to moderator say-so, for example, wouldn't be able to
get access, no matter the client - even if written by that user for his/her
own personal preferences), but anyone could write a front-end for it. 
Using proper RPC/DCE procedures, those front-ends could be any platform,
too.  :-)



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