home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!caen!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!uw-coco!quick!victrola!vince
- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: Anyone have a BBS that runs on Linux?
- References: <Bynw8G.I11@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <8i10uB2w165w@questor.org> <1992Dec6.213616.18857@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 18:55:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec10.185551.292@victrola.sea.wa.us>
- Lines: 65
-
- ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
-
- >In article <8i10uB2w165w@questor.org> sp@questor.org (Steve Pershing) writes:
- >>bradshaw@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw) writes:
- >>
- >>| This question has probably come up before. Has anyone got a BBS program
- >>| that would run on Linux? I'm looking at anything right now for a closed
- >>| system.
- >>
- >>Sure... try Waffle... info follows:
- >>
- >[ Long advertisement for commercial product deleted. ]
- >
- >I have heard (but not verified) that there is a freely available UNIX
- >BBS called Unidel. I don't know anything about it, but I find it
- >difficult to PAY for any Linux software after getting a complete
- >operating system (with X) for free.
-
-
- ok with me. You requested info on a BBS program that ran under Linux.
- Several people (me included) mentioned Waffle as one that fit what you
- asked for...you never said it had to be free.
-
-
- >I had previously looked for a free BBS package for Linux, but the
- >only newsgroup I could find was a waffle one and a bunch of idiots
- >told me to write my own if I didn't want to pay for it. That, of course,
- >did nothing to improve my impression of waffle or the people that use
- >it. :-)
-
- well speaking as only one Waffle user, please eat shit and die.
- there...how's your impression now ?
-
-
- >Since most BBSs are message-based, it seems that a good news reader
- >could be hacked into a BBS. Local discussion areas would just be
- >local newsgroups. Headers would take up quite a bit of disk space
- >but it wouldn't be difficult to implement, and you wouldn't have to
- >mess with the design details of data storage, etc. If a free BBS
- >can't be found, maybe a mailing list can be set up to discuss
- >writing one.
-
- once again, everything you discuss is part of Waffle already...it has
- built-in news/mail plus that ability to hook in external programs
- like nn for instance...
-
- but you already said you want it all for free...
-
- >--
- >Jim H.
- >*
- >* James L. Henrickson | "I don't need a signature, I need a job!"
- >* ujlh@sunyit.edu | BSCS, December 1992
-
- when you read a response to something you expected info about, and you
- don't like the answer, and you call the givers of such (quite valid)
- answers idiots...I expect you'll have a long and distinguished career
- in the fast-food-service industry, drive-through department.
-
- followups to /dev/null as you have entered my global kill file...
-
- --
- ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
- "USENET is not an obsession. It's just something I have to do all the time."
- quote from Jan'93 Unix World article
-