yabbs - yet another bulletin board system

Yabbs Overview

Yabbs is a Unix-based bulletin board system primarily written by Alex Wetmore. It differs from most Unix-based BBS designs (and most BBS designs in general) in that it is client server based. This allows a better load distribution of the system, and means that users can use graphical clients to give the system a nicer interface. At this time only a text-based unix client exists, although a graphical X-Windows based client is in development, and a beta version of a MS-DOS client is available for ftp. The only server is for Unix systems, but it should be portable to other systems with only minor changes.

Yabbs is dead. No one that I know of is doing any work on the system, and I have no intentions on touching the code anymore or starting work on new features. I would suggest looking elsewhere for bbs systems.

Yabbs Availability

The newest version of yabbs will always be available from ftp.phred.org in /pub/yabbs. There are three important files there:
* README - Information on what is available.
* yabbsnet.tar.gz - The newest server/client package for unix.
* yabbscli.tar.gz - The newest text based client package for unix (includes source for a preliminary MS-DOS client as well).
In addition you may find source code for other clients or servers in /pub/yabbs or precompiled clients in /pub/yabbs/clients.

More Yabbs Information

* History of Yabbs

This contains information about the history of yabbs from its conception until today. It also has information on the BBS called yabbs that was running on phred for a period of about two years. This document has not been updated, so it contains some old and outdated information.

* Yabbs Message Files

This is a pointer to a WWW page that has all of the original yabbs message base files. If you want to see what was there or remember some poem that was posted, this is the place to look.

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