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BBBS is a fullfledged BBS system which incorporates all of your needs for setting up your own BBS. BBBS contains full Internet and Fidonet support. Fidonet messages and Internet news and email are embedded together with a versatile WWW-based, offline and online message reading system.
BBBS is easy to customize to suit every need imaginable. It is configurable also from the user's point of view. There are hundreds of 3rd party utilities available, mostly coded with BBBS's C-alike script language.
Features:
- Native versions: Linux, OS/2, Windows NT/95, PC-DOS, Amiga, SunOS, Solaris, ...
- Year 2000 compatible.
- User can access BBBS with WWW-browser, telnet, direct dial-up modem connection, ISDN, ...
- Incoming and outgoing Internet support: WWW, Telnet, FTP, Finger, SMTP (email), POP3 (email), NNTP (news), IRC, Hunt, Time.
- Full Fidonet support: Mailer (EMSI, FTS-0001, BinkP), mail processor, TICK processor, message tracker, AllFix, NameFix, AreaFix, outbound manager, nodelist compiler and differ, remapping.
- Gating both news, email and mailing lists between Fidonet and Internet.
- Fidonet mail sessions over TCP/IP (EMSI, FTS-0001, BinkP).
- Multilingual support, also national character sets, including ISO and IBM
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- VT320, ANSI, Dummy-ANSI, RIPscript and TTY terminal emulation support.
- Hypertext help system for both SysOp and user, with ASCII/HTML converters.
- Full multinode and multitasking support.
- Advanced security features, for example encrypted passwords and RSA login.
- QWK, OMEN, HIPPO, BlueWave and ASCII offline reader support.
- IRC-alike groupchat, with feelings and real IRC connection.
- Full-featured, powerful C-alike script language. Also supports REXX (OS/2), Java and perl.
- Virtually unlimited number of message areas.
- Fast full screen message editor (FSE), Mg2a (Emacs-clone) and line editor.
- Advanced groups-based access control system with regular expressions.
- Accounts for commercial systems.
- On-line reading made easy: read messages by threads, by number or use the search features to mark just the messages that you want to read. Automatic on-the-fly message reformatting.
- Directory-based file system, packing and unpacking, private files/dirs, viewing files.
- Full CD-ROM support, supports for CD-ROM change on the fly! You can change CD-ROM and user will see new CD-ROM immediately. CD-ROM changer support. Easy installation of CD-ROMs with a built-in installer.
- File areas are limited only by your free disk space
- Fast file search by wildcard or keyword.
- Internal protocols: HYDRA, Zmodem, ZedZap, Ymodem Batch, Ymodem, Kermit, Xmodem CRC, Xmodem checksum, Slow-HYDRA, Slow-Zmodem.
- Long filename support everywhere, including HYDRA.
- Effective BZLink-Lite connection protocol (you can upload and download at the same time than you use BBS normally).
- Up to 250 external protocols and packers are supported.
- Small VT320 terminal emulator, BTERM.
- Send and receive FAXes and voice calls, you can share one single phoneline with data/fax/voice.
- PC-DOS version is DESQview and OS/2 aware, FOSSIL driver is optional.
- ISDN CAPI support (OS/2).
- Internal message base compression, saves 50% of your disk space.
- Easy to customize to suit every need imaginable. Configurable also from the user's point of view.
- Hundreds of utilities available.
- International support echo areas and mailing lists.
...plus much much more...
BBBS is available in many distributions, two for each OS. The first one is with RSA, and the second is without. The only difference is that passwords are encryped when using BTERM to connect to BBBS. Using RSA encryption is adviced when you are using for example radio modems or Internet.
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Category: Network, Server and P2P
- Added on 15th Sep 2005 by lt -
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