Jim Andritsakos wrote to Alan Ianson:

JA> I was registered with Terry Harvey from Australia back in 1993!

Ahh.. in '93 I was an avid user of BBSs. It wasn't until '95 that I got
my own RA board online. I was a co-sysop on a local RA board before
that called Burnaby Mountain Remote. That BBS had an large message base
and a huge (at the time) filebase. I used to make description files for
uploads. There were a lot of uploads on that board, if you wanted to
download you either paid for a subscription or used upload credits. It
worked well at the time.

JA> I use it since then I also purchase PCBoard 14.5/D (upgraded to 14.5a/2), 
JA> ¨SuperBBS 1.16 , I also use ProBoard and Maximus 2.02 for some time but I 
JA> ¨prefer RA than any other.I also be on the beta team of Nexus BBS but also 
JA> this ¨now is histroy (I have to quit from this prior to join the RA beta 
JA> team).Some ¨years ago my dream becomes reality I join the RA beta team !

I've used RA, and Maximus extensively, and lately Synchronet. I was also
part of the Telegard beta team at one time. Wonderful experience.

JA> Bruce is doing excellent work but I think he is losing his interest day by 
JA> day ¨as he is seeing that there is no more sales for RA (maybe a few)....
JA> It's a shame for the BBS world in general to be lost as the
"net" becomes 
JA> easy ¨to obtain for everyone...

Yep, the tables have turned (quite a few years ago I guess). It'd be pretty
hard to get sales for a BBS package today I think. Anyone who is still
running a BBS must be doing it purely as a hobby. I can't see anyone
finacially supporting a BBS today so the Sysop will have to pay the cost
out of his/her pocket without expecting any help with those costs.

Still, RA is a great package and I never regretted the investment I made.

JA> Any BBS program is still alive it must be supported ¨to keep it
JA> alive! I check in BMTMicro recently and RA & FD are just not
JA> ¨available anymore...

BMTMicro may have decided to delist those products if they haven't had
any activity in a certain amount of time, I dunno.

I do keep an eye on the rapro website once in a while to see if there was
anything new, but I haven't seen any changes in quite a while.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

... There's always one more bug.

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