>  DO> Why would you want to.. there is ELEBBS that has all the features of
 >  DO> RA and  more + its free..
 > why indeed... when one pays $$$ there is an obligation from the one
 > receiving the $$$... if that obligation includes support or bugfixes, then
 > they must be provided... i've never seen any free software that could
 > stand up to that... in fact, i've been forced to leave some excellent free
 > software in the crapper because there were no bugfixes and the only
 > support was from users who didn't know the internals and couldn't or
 > wouldn't read the code...
 > so anyway... was that a serious question or just a poor attempt at a
 > spamming run? ;)

Yeas it was a serious question.. RA was a great bbs package in it's day.
And i do understand what your saying about support with freeware packages.

But im not sure how RA is now, but last time i looked it lacked long filename 
support & no telnet inferface.. As well as no Web interface.

Now if the authors of RA would add these up-to-date functions i'm sure it 
would be a much better package.

As far as elebbs goes. there is still support and most of the bugs we have 
encountered have been fixed.. 

Anyway each to his own :)

See Ya
Dave

... Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

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