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  =                     Parlor House BBS for Linux                      = 
  =                              Version 3.0                            =
  =                     By Asu Pala and Loreen Lacy                     =
  =                             Copyright 1995                          =
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Welcome to the start of operating the best BBS available on the net! 
Operating a BBS can be great fun and a very challenging adventure.  You
can start a base of users that can grow into the thousands very quickly. 
The structure of this BBS is simple to use.  Your users login to a main
channel.  They are then free to make open and secret channels and move
about as they wish. There are many fun and useful commands available which
are easily mastered. 

	Help files are online and your users will find them easy to master
and use.  The files are easily modified to your own preferences for
wording, color, context or design. The help file structure is easily
modified to add extra files as you decide. 

	There are screenfiles which can be used to add your own logo,
drawings or text files to display to users. Also, your users have many set
features and userlists available to personalize their accounts as well as
a "profile"  with many lines available which they can change or edit. 

	Your higher level users can use special commands to control and or
remove troublesome users from your BBS.  You also have a bad user level 0
to send a 'wake-up call' to certain users.  It limits their access to some
commands. 

	There is system monitoring you can enable or disable as you choose
which will kick off users who use the words you want banned from open
channel conversation. 

	You can create a text file of hints, messages, quotes, policies or
whatever you wish and the BBS will randomly select and display to all
your users while it runs. 

Read "options.txt"  for the complete breakdown by options, and
"manual.txt" for more detailed instructions on certain commands and
features. 



Parlor House BBS currently runs on Linux, but versions for the following 
machines are planned for the near future:

SUN 
ULTRIX
BSD 
HP-UNIX
AIX 
SYSTEM-V 
OSF 

