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- From: adamg@eff.org (Adam Gaffin)
- Subject: Re: TBBS versus RA/Netware
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.130511.18634@eff.org>
- Originator: adamg@eff.org
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <1992Nov17.184131.60943@cc.usu.edu> <1992Nov20.085632.1@ttd.teradyne.com> <By4M4B.7pq@gator.rn.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:05:11 GMT
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- In article <By4M4B.7pq@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >rice@ttd.teradyne.com writes:
- >
- >>TBBS has much flexibility in presenting menus/screens/file areas/etc.
- >
- >I wouldn't go that far -- you for example, can't put the time/date
- >in the menus, nor can you have the menus spawn external applications.
- >
-
- I think I've got it! You're basing your assumptions of TBBS on an outdated
- version!! Why else would you keep saying things like this? Yes, you are
- absolutely right about the external applications (I won't even mention
- TDBS). But you are just as absolutely wrong about the time and date; the
- current version of TBBS lets you insert these and about 25 other variables
- into a menu.
-
- >DOS, but RA does. TBBS hogs your computer -- makeing unusable for
- >anything else while callers are on-line.
- >
-
- So? If you're running a BBS on the computer in your bedroom, yes, this
- might be a concern. But if you're, say, running a BBS as part of your
- business, you might want a dedicated, and standalone, computer for your
- BBS. This way, you never have to worry about somebody using the BBS to
- try to hack his way into something that's really important to you (in the
- case of, oh, a newspaper, stories for tomorrow's paper).
-
- >And it doesn't support the conversion of usenet traffic in real time -- the
- >whole machine has to go down to single user mode --
-
- You're right. No communications program does every thing. But if eSoft
- can figure out how to compile QWK packets in real time, as they apparently
- have, then eventually somebody will figure out the Usenet (and Fidonet)
- issue. Until then, if such real-time access is important, than, yes, look
- for another program.
- --
- Adam Gaffin
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