-> 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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