Hello Robert!   
      
   Wednesday October 17 2018 18:38, you wrote to me:   
      
    >> I have never tried bbbs as it is paid for software and as I am   
    >> retired do not have funds to spend on such when there are more than   
    >> enough FOC products.   
      
    > Yeah, you know that the two node version of BBBS is available, right?   
    > The only limitations to it that I know of are a 2 node max and a 30   
    > minute hard time limit for users.   
      
   The minimum service as you say is two nodes although I do not run any modems    
   is still a paid   
   for function.   
      
   Even with internet based connections with mbse/web/ftp services I often can    
   have 5 - 10   
   connections at the same time although rare and 2 - 4 is more likely.   
      
   Mbse has a max of two but that is to help with nodes downloading as my upload    
   speed is only   
   18Mb and helps to minimise time connection times.   
      
   The Web or ftp connections is mostly robots and these are only connected for a    
   max of 10   
   seconds.   
      
   So a 2 port bbbs is not practical on a cost or function basis.   
      
   How ever that said the main gain for mbse is that the sources are freely    
   available so minir   
   fixes are done by the users (experienced in C) since the programmer quit the    
   scene.   
      
   The only feature missing that I could make use of is a file description editor    
   for the entries   
   that have poor comments or too many non textual comments anyway.   
   Here the only way around using a internal database for each function is to    
   convert it to say   
   MySQL to allow better record updating. Then I could just use the code of    
   another bbs editor to   
   work with mbse but my current time is spent on updating a publishing my Cobol    
   tools and   
   applications on SF.   
      
      
      
   Vince   
      
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