> Dan Egli wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:
>> Why do you not like BBBS? Whats wrong with it?

>I don't think I can say there's anything wrong with it....it's more a matter o
> personal preference.

> When I had a POTS BBS, I ran Remote Access....and spent tons of hours
>customizing it, adding options, etc.  The board's operation and appearence wer
> such that folks actually sent in money to support it.

Rare item, that!!! And I know about liking RemoteAccess. I ran it too, for man years.

>BBS, on the other hand strikes me as cumbersome in how it handles email/netmai
> and the web interface is missing features and appears to
> be rather boring.

I'll agree on the web interface portion. But beyond that... I like BBBS,
although I will admit I've consider throwing EleBBS/Linux on an alternate
port to see which users like more. But for that I'd need users, and so far
users are comming up in short supply :<


>It might be that I'm not reading/understanding the documentation, but I've see
> enough messages in the BBBS echo to make me wonder how well the package is
> documented.

ACtually documented decently, just take a while to get used to the DOX

> On the other hand, BBBS tosses its own mail, etc., which seems to be the
> exception for many of the BBS programs that will run under Linux.

I think that is partially since BBBS uses a propriatery message base
system. If you want to toss to a Hudson/JAM base on a Linux box, HPT is
your best bet.


> My impression that BBBS fine for a real tekkie(which I am not) but is far too
> klunky to attract Internet users to Fidonet.

Well if you can provide a template to making EleBBS work in that regard,
i'm all ears. One problem i think you might find is that there is no
Qwk/BlueWave door that runs under Linux.. At least BBBS has internal BW
Support.


>But maybe I should have started all of this off with my desire to have a BBS o
>the internet that would be attractive to folks who don't know about/don't care
>about BBS operations as we in Fidonet think them to be, and that would run on
>virtual site on a linux server.  I no longer have the space or interest to hav
> a bbs physically located here....but I have as much space and bandwidth as I
> choose to use on a server.

Hmmm. Too bad. My bbs is physically located in my basement and I would not
haveit any other way.  But to each their own.

-+- Dan

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