From: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu (Chris Blaise)
Subject: Re: Questions about TBBS
Originator: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu
Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:14:47 GMT

From article <C1D4Mq.4zM@trauma.rn.com>, by larry@trauma.rn.com (Larry Snyder):
> 
> TBBS is very fast in searches, and the file area is very well laid out.
> Likewise, the message area is very neat and easy to use.  The things to
> keep in mind is that their is no support for external applications (doors)
> unless they are written specifically for TBBS using the TDMS module
> which is an additional $900 (the cost of the TBBS specific modules to run
> under this $900 package are in addition to the $900 (on top of the $900
> for TBBS itself).  Also, TBBS doesn't (as of this time) support the scanning
> and tossing and gating of email in real time - - so for message processing
> your multiuser machine needs to be off-line and unavailable for your callers
> (which is hard to believe in these days of multiuser, multitasking systems).

	Well Larry, just for you I braved my 2400 connection to post this
little tidbit.  It was posted in a message from Phil Becker about TIMS 1.1,
which is going to be released on Feb 1.  Here is the message in it's
entirety:

 Area:    TIMS
  Msg:    #48036
 Date:    01-23-93 23:56 (Public) 
 From:    PHIL BECKER              
 To:      ALL                      
 Subject: TIMS CONVERSION TECH NOTE
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                        * * N O T I C E * *
 
  I have just posted a file TIMSTECH.DOC in the TIMS file download area. 
It is
a tech note on how to convert a TIMS 1.0/SEAdog setup to TIMS 1.1.  I hope it
will answer most of the questions that arise about how to do this
conversion. 
It may also be of help to those of you who are using a mailer other than
SEAdog
with TIMS 1.0.
 
  Remember, with TIMS 1.1 you will not need any other mailer.  TIMS 1.1 dials
out as well as receives mail.  It is fully compatible with all other
mailers in
FidoNet, so you won't need to have a "politically correct" mailer handy for
certain nodes any longer.  It even does high-speed MACFLOW transfers to
"kitten" systems on a macintosh (about 25% faster than TIMS 1.0 did).
 
  TIMS 1.1 can also scan Net Mail and toss both Net Mail and Echomail while
TBBS is up and running.  Yes it will toss to topics!  Yes it will send and
receive enclosed files in net mail!  It does not compress or de-compress
packets online, so you will either need to set up a "nanny machine" via a LAN
to do real time packing/routing or have your hub send your echomail in
uncompressed packets if you want to toss echomail while TBBS is up.
 
  Ask the beta testers (if they've recovered from the shock of seing the real
TIMS 1.1 product in action recently) and you'll find out that TIMS 1.1 is the
most advanced FidoNet mailer product anywhere.  The list of things it can do
that no other mailer software can do is much too long for a message like this,
but you'll be proud to run it and have fun telling other non-TBBS FidoNet
sysops what your system can do once you install TIMS 1.1.
 
  TIMS 1.1 is on schedule and WILL SHIP FEB 1, 1993.  If you haven't gotten
your upgrade order in yet, now is the time.  Don't be left out of the fun!
 
  Again, the file is "TIMSTECH.DOC" in the TIMS file download area.
 
-                               Phil


	Needless to say, I'm a little psyched...

 TTYL
 Chris