Thank you for your interest in MBSE BBS!  We sincerely hope that MBSE BBS
will suit your BBSing needs now and in the future.

Some of the features MBSE has:

* Open source, written in C, and available for UNIX, Linux, and BSD.
* Fully Fidonet capable with these features: built-in mail tosser, TIC
  handler, front-end mailer, areafix, filefix, and more.
* Uses JAM for its message base format
* Able to run DOS doors using DOSemu
* Able to run Linux-native BBS and programs as doors
* Newsgroup and email support for both hosting and gating
* QWK and Blue Wave offline mail support
* Built-in "filefind" feature
* Works with ProFTPD to serve files via FTP
* Works with httpd (Apache) to share BBS statistics and share files
  automatically

For first time installing, see the INSTALL file. After a manual
installation, the HTML documentation is in /opt/mbse/html.  We are
working on providing documentation in other formats such as PDF.

Distribution naming scheme:

mbsebbs-1.0.6.tar.bz2
  |     | | |
  |     | | +--------- minor patchlevel
  |     | +----------- minor version
  |     +------------- major version
  +------------------- package name

For FTN-style distribution, the tar archive and FILE_ID.DIZ are
zipped together in a file with an 8.3-style filename like MBSE-106.ZIP.

If you need support, we support MBSE in Fidonet's MBSE echo (this is
our preferred method of support).

A note from MBSE's original author:

"Since 1 August 2013 I (Michiel Broek) stopped developing this package. But
this is a GPL2 licensed open source package so feel free to continue to
improve it.  I only ask to make it clear to others that it is a modified
package. You can do that by changing the version numbers and messages in
the file configure.ac and then run autoconf to update the configure scripts."

-- The MBSE Development Team