>  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? ;)

 DO> Yeas it was a serious question.. 

i hadda ask, ya know :)

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

i think i remember you from back in the day... it has been a long time...

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

true... but are those really really really necessary? i would say that
answer would depend on what you want to do... my RA has been on the
internet since about 1994 with no problems... it looks a operates exactly
like the DOS dialup version... ya just use telnet to get to it...

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

i'm sure it might make it more enticing to others, yes... however, i'd have
to wonder what i'd loose with those additions...

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

i've thought a few times about looking at elebbs or even the web interface
which i understand will also work with a RA backend... sadly, though, i'm
running a beta of RA and the data structures have changed a bit and i don't
think that the ele web interface will work properly with what i'm
running...

my question is... is there still (?) an OS/2 native compile of elebbs? warp
3 connect compatibility preferred...

 DO> Anyway each to his own :)

that's what makes the world go around! O:)

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