DC> I don't really see the load as such on the BBS nodes unless some fool
 DC> scans every message base for personal mail. Why someone would scan a
 DC> couple gigabytes of Usenet (msgs to ALL) for personal mail is beyond
 DC> me. Why a sysop would allow it is beyond me except I haven't found
 DC> how to not have it scan those bases. Anyway, that seems to be the
No usenet here (only internet connectivity on my system is incoming telnets), 
though there ARE a lot of message bases (over 300)...
 DC> Good OS2 native BBS software will hardly make a burp on any CPU
Ah, that's the snag.  I'm not using an OS/2 native BBS program, though there 
are rumours that there may eventually be an OS/2 version..
 DC> for drive space, I took a second tower case and it has all my SCSI
 DC> hard drives in it so that case stays powered while I do maintenance
That's something I never thought of, though I'm not up to SCSI yet (still 
stuck with IDE... bleh)
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