It's 22 Jan 98  07:36:08,
We'll return to Chris Griffin and Tony Langdon's
discussion of Type of bbs?
 TL> Don't know, but I'm looking at the possibility of providing
 TL> a WWW based front end to almost any Fido BBS.  This "front
 TL> end" will also be able to operate independently in the sense
 TL> that the BBS doesn't need a 24x7 link, only periodic
 TL> connections for message transfer to the WWW site.
 CG> Sounds cool, can you say more?
Not a lot to say, except the "interface program" would basically "walk"
through a web BBS and download/post messages as though it were a real
user.  Incoming messages would be text files, which can be easily shoved
into something GIGO, outgoing messages would be queued, ready for auto
posting. The s/w would have to keep track of where it's been before, of
course.
If the web BBS is your own, you could arrange for a site to host it, and
update it daily via a simple, automated PPP session. :-)
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