Re: Re: What software ?
  By: Michiel Broek to Roy J. Tellason on Sun Jul 25 2004 03:59 pm

 > RJT> just go mucking around in that stuff without doing so...
 > 
 > It does that, and then you decide. The setup is then automatic which saves
 > you a lot of work as owner of your computer. With binkd you have to do this
 > by hand without a good description.

That's funny, I downloaded, compiled and installed binkd and then 
configured it quite nicely thank you.

 > RJT> But they have a regular user account mixed in with the normal users?
 > Hm.
 > 
 > Yes, that has more advantages as other systems. Other systems need to run
 > own pop daemons for email. Try to mix that with your own mail system. The
 > other systems that don't make use of Linux are just copies of dos/windoze
 > programs which are difficult to integrate with your whole system and thus
 > have more risk that your system will become insecure. MBSE doesn't use
 > own servers where good servers exist on your system like mail, http ftp etc.

This is probably worse then. There is no seperation betweeen the BBS and 
other stuff that I run on my system.

This is an absolute no as far as I'm concerned.

Regards
Nigel
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