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From: George Caswell <timbuktu@the-eye.res.wpi.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.unixbbs,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Check out new Linux/FreeBSD BBS...
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 17:36:09 -0500
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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On 24 Mar 1996, Dave Costantino wrote:

> 
> A new BBS program (currently running under both Linux and FreeBSD) will soon
> be available for testing. It'll be marketted as shareware...
> 
> Telnet tmok2.tmok.com, login as "new" to check out a running system.
> 
> It looks a lot like DOS-based BBSes, trying to avoid the unfriendly Unix
> feel that most users aren't used to..
> 
Not that I'm not already -somewhat- familiar with Tmok's system, but 
could you provide the official specs?  IE does it use one system account 
for all users, or one for each, (that's the big one) how does menuing 
work (Do you write plaintext menus which the BBS displays, or do you put 
in ASCII and ANSI files as in Renegade, does it use internal systems for 
news and mail or system ones (very connected to first question..), is 
there a package, included or available, to allow it to network messages 
with DOS bbses, offline mail support, etc. etc. etc...)

P.S.  I'd like to be a tester.

P.P.S.  Please delete my account from tmok.  I forgot the password anyway.

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