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    A friend of mine and I have been looking into starting a local Chicago-based BBS... in looking around it seems quite disconnected I think and looking for some guidance on how to get started. The first software I found was OpenTG but looks like there are others such as Wizard and maybe one other.

    I'm lost and looking for a primer - anyone care to help? I ran a BBS 'back in the day' but used Wildcat! software.
    Dusty
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  • From Janis Kracht@RICKSBBS to Support mailing list for on Mon Aug 9 12:02:00 2010
    Hi Dusty,

    A friend of mine and I have been looking into starting a local Chicago-based BBS... in looking around it seems quite disconnected I think and looking for
    some guidance on how to get started. The first software I found was OpenTG but
    looks like there are others such as Wizard and maybe one other.

    I'm lost and looking for a primer - anyone care to help? I ran a BBS 'back in the day' but used Wildcat! software.
    Dusty

    Check out BBBS, there is a tutorial here: http://www.filegate.net/zone1/bbbsfaq.html

    This is a shareware program, but for just three nodes, I think the cost is just @20.00. It's a loaded program with a lot of features (see http://www.bbbs.net), such as mailer, filelist generator, fidonet binkp mailer, ftp, email server, and
    tons more.

    I have 7 nodes that cost me $90.00. That was over 10 years ago, so I'm not sure
    if the price is cheaper now. I also run BinkD mailer for extra free mailer nodes. For those downlinks, I move the mail from my BBBS outbounds to the BinkD
    outbounds with a java program I wrote. There is a tutorial of sorts for BinkD also on that same page as the BBBS tutorial, as well as help for Argus on that page.

    There's also Synchronet BBS that also can use either arcmail attach (Argus, Radius mailers) or B-O (bink outbounds) as in BinkD. There is a tutorial for Synchronet I believe on Synchro.net (home of that bbs program).

    Feel free to email me at janis@filegate.net

    Take care,
    Janis

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  • From Robert E Starr JR@RICKSBBS to Janis Kracht on Mon Aug 9 23:38:00 2010
    In a reply from Janis Kracht on 12:02 about [bbs-scene.org support] N


    (I know you know the links, being I gave them to you, but there wasn't a person, but a group name, so your name got picked)

    There's also Synchronet BBS that also can use either arcmail attach (Argus, Radius mailers) or B-O (bink outbounds) as in BinkD. There is a tutorial for Synchronet I believe on Synchro.net (home of that bbs program).

    for setup on argus, radius, taurus with sbbs see http://time.synchro.net:81/argus.ssjs

    on the fidonet side see http://time.synchro.net:81/fidonet.ssjs

    as for sbbs see http://time.synchro.net:81/sbbs.ssjs

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