From: Jim Fullton (fullton@samba.acs.unc.edu) Subject: Opinions Needed Newsgroups: alt.bbs Date: 1990-03-14 18:17:30 PST I am in the process of setting up a bulletin board system for a large university campus. Our (rudimentary) board is running on a DECStation 3100 with 1.2 Gbytes of disk space and a capacity of 24 simulatneous network and dialup users. Perhaps some experienced sysops on the net can lend me some advice and suggestions about what is useful and desirable in a good bbs. Equally important, perhaps you can give advice about things to *avoid*. Our operating system is Ultrix and we are running a very heavily modified version of XBBS 1.3. Our main priorities are: 1. Communications (Conferencing, mail, and messaging) 2. Information Access (Bulletins, on-line library info) 3. File access (uploads, downloads, interest groups, etc). Our (very unfinished) board currently provides local messaging, Internet mail access, access to Internet news, conferencing, and several other things. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and I will gladly summarize to this group. If you wish to look at the board, it can be accessed by Internet at bbs.acs.unc.edu. Login as "bbs" - no password. Dialup users can dial (919)-962-9911 (300,1200,2400,9600 bps). Hit return until a # appears. Type "inet", followed by "c bbs" at the ACS INET> prompt. Login as bbs, no password. This dialup procedure will be made much easier "real soon now". Thanks for the help! Jim Fullton UNC Academic Computing Services fullton@samba.acs.unc.edu