Hi Trifle,

> -> Why not try a linux bbs?  There are several of them out there now

> If I ever get serious about acutally running a BBS, I probably will.
> But right now I'm having too much fun just talking. ;-)

Well, that's good.. I mean enjoying things... :)

It reminds me of the first time I saw chars spreading across the monitor's
screen :) boy, that was a while back hahaha

> -> I've never run PCBoard for my own system, but did have
> -> to run it on a spare system when U.S.Robotics was working on the
> -> FileGate with me back in about 1990-1994 or whenever.. I never did
> -> like it's interface.

> It has its quirks.

Yep..

>  One that annoys me is the screen pause when reading

I just never cared for it's user interface,but I think WildCat's was worse..

> That's not just PCBoard though, other BBS have the same poor interface
> for reading messages.  Don't know about BBBS, have not got that far with
> it yet

BBBS is really simple to get going at it's base level.. just unzip or untar
it and go..You can check out my faq file:


http://www.filegate.net/zone1/bbbsfaq.html

That should helps some :)

Tale care.
janis

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