RS>  in my opinion, is the hot new trend, and I think a BBS that
 RS>  is able to display HTML files may be more successful with
 RS>  the new crowd of telecommuters than one that doesn't.
Have you tried to display a HTML file in the manner that you'd display any
other textfile in Maximus?  It -should- work w/o problem, but then you have
the "problem" of how the user is going to use a browser on your BBS, but
that's something else.  In most cases, to display the BBS's HTML to the user,
you're really not using the BBS at all, but rather just HTML files.  (And you
don't need a BBS for that, you need a HTTP server, which is beyond the scope
of this echo, to be sure.)
 RS>  Forgive my web ignorance, but can't they just dial my BBS
 RS>  like they dial any other BBS, but using their websurfing
 RS>  software?
Not really.  They could telnet in, and then use the BBS "as normal", but you
really need a server to handle/hand off the HTTP part of things.
You -could- put up some sort of PPP dialin software, then use something like
Microsoft's Personal Web Server (or something similar for other platforms),
but again, that's not Maximus doing anything, so we're drifting away again.
--gary
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