Hello Russell!

*** 16.06.03 at 09:40, Russell Tiedt wrote to Martin Foster:

 RT> 15 Jun 03 08:05, you wrote to me:

 MF>> [..]
 RT>>> BeOS lacks a number of things, notably Fido Software and a few
 RT>>> other programs.

 MF>> As far as Fido software is concerned, nope, that's not true. Off
 MF>> the top  of my head, there's timEd, GoldED, Msged, hpt, CrashMail,
 MF>> BinkD, Qico and  BinkleyTerm. What else do you want ;-))

 RT> So we have msgbase editors, a tosser, and a couple of mailers, not
 RT> bad for a point,

Not bad for a Node either :-)

 RT> but not fantastic for someone running a BBS. :-)

That's true and AFAIK, nobody has ported BBS software to BeOS.
ISTR that Maximus is now open source, hmmmmmmm ;)

 MF>> Have a look at http://befido.webhop.org and http://walther.sf.net

 RT> Have saved for when I get a normal internet connection again. :-)

OK, fine.

Regards,
Martin

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