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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: TEAMate BBS BSDI ready early
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 18:01:25 GMT

Bob Baskerville (teamate@news.holonet.net) wrote:
: We beat our estimate and can now ship the BSDI version of
: our TEAMate client/server/web/character BBS.  The first
: release runs SCO compatibility mode with a few tweaks better
: than on SCO.  Look at http://mmb.com

I think the days of overpriced proprietary BBS client/server
models are over.  A couple of folks can set up a BSD/OS box
plus Apache and produce a very nice BBS-type environment for
a fraction of the cost and it can be used by anyone with a
decent web browser.

Chris
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