Subj : TBBS
To   : Shawn Highfield
From : Allen Prunty
Date : Fri May 13 2016 12:27 am

-> Allen Prunty wrote in a message to Shawn Highfield:

-> AP> TBBS was an amazing system... Every message conference on my system
-> AP> had it's own menu.  It was quite easy to use if the sysop took time

->   You could do that with RA and PCB which I'm sure you know. :)

Actually I've never found any system as configurable as Tbbs.  It used a
message base much like the hudson base but did not have the same
limitations.  

I could define what every command looked like right down to the
keystroke.  I could make TBbs look slike any BBS software you could
imagine.

->   I ran RAUUCP at that time.  It worked. ;)

It was becoming harder to find a provider for UUCP that provided UUCICO
type connections as providers were transitioning to NNTP.  Wildcat used
NNTP, PCB and RA used UUCICO.  With winserver I can provide a UUCICO
feed to those who want it today, but even at that it's limited.

->   Still a shame man, I'd have loved to see a configured one. :)

I lost most o fmy userbase when it crashed.  I ran it for the longest
other than winserver.  I got a lot back when I came to wildcat, but for
the longest I lost a lot of users.  

But then, in the TBBS days the users used the message bases and files...
as it progressed they wanted games, tradewars, and more.  When I was
with D.I.S.K. it was an alternative to compuserve and genie.  Prodigy
was just starting to come out in those days... and AOL was it's own
service altogether.  The BBS was popular becuase most of them were free.
When I ran TBBS I asked each user for $1-5 a month for donations.  I had
three phone lines as that was th emax we could have at our house
normally it was two but we had a separate apartment in the basement that
had it's own address.  The donations paid for the phone lines.  I spent
a fortune with MCI back in the day even with friends and family to move
the netmail.  Sadly, I had one bill where I called 10 times a second to
my host for over an hour it was astronomical and they counted each call
as one full minute.  I had to get the public utilities commission to get
them to back down on the bill as they wouldn't budge for months.

Allen
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