Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!langz From: langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: BBS software and content ideas Message-ID: <1896@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 03:29:13 EST Article-I.D.: bloom-be.1896 Posted: Fri Nov 27 03:29:13 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 19:26:19 EST References: <7759@g.ms.uky.edu> <1870@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <2049@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) Distribution: na Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 31 Keywords: 1000, upgrade Summary: Any BBS w/gateway to Usenet? I'm doing some research into what software to use for my yet-to-be-born public information service, the Max Elbowroom BBS. See article <1870@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> for more details. page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) wrote: >langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) (<-- hey, that's me!) wrote: >>got the line listed under the name of my "roommate", Max Elbowroom. > >Too cool. I called information, they had no listing in either business >or residential for Mr. Elbowroom. Actually, Bob, the line won't be *installed* until 1 December, and knowing NET the listing won't be available in directory assistance for a couple of weeks afterward. Anyway, thanks to the zillions who responded to my initial posting. Apparently, the only BBS worth using is part of or has a gateway to an existing, large network (such as, for example, Usenet :-). So now the big question is: is there any BBS software that runs on the Amiga and has built-in connectivity (oooh! I just *love* using those buzzwords) to some kind of network. For example, an Amiga FidoNet node would be OK (Echomail works). A BBS that has a gateway to Usenet would be ideal, since I can get feeds for all the best groups. Does anyone know of such an animal, or perhaps of a way to integrate this capability into an existing BBS system (perhaps by incorporating the uupc utilities somehow?)? (Experienced Amiga hackers, this is your dream project and you know it! :-) Be seing you... --Lang Zerner langz@athena.mit.edu ...ihnp4!mit-eddie!mit-athena!langz "No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the only misfortune is to do it solemnly" --Michel de Montaigne