From: info@techbook.com (TECHbooks)
Subject: PDaXcess offers free e-mail & news
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:01:35 GMT

"PDaXcess" allows free access to Usenet and e-mail.  "PDaXcess"
is an 80486 clone running Waffle 1.64 BBS software which allows 
the dial-up caller to access (read and post) many usenet groups 
as well as send and receive e-mail.

When you call, you pick an eight-character account name and can
use that to send e-mail immediately.  You can read news but not post.
We mail you a command guide and registration form.  As soon as you
return the registration form, we upgrade your account so you can post
news too.  "PDaXcess" has access to the major newsgroups: comp,
misc, soc, rec, news, talk, and sci groups; plus alt, k12, and gnu
groups; plus local groups and selected FidoNet echomail areas.

I've had several people tell me that they prefer the Waffle
interface to the traditional UNIX programs.  It allows you to
maintain your own list of newsgroups, supports alias files and has
other neat features that most BBS programs don't.

Personally, I'll give up elm and nn when they pry my cold, dead
fingers off the keyboard, and many other people swear by nn or
mush.  But what do you want for nothing?  And we have several sets
of parents using it to communicate with their children, so it must
be fairly easy-to-use.

"PDaXcess" operates at 1200 or 2400 baud at 8 data bits, no parity,
1 stop bit.  The modems all support MNP-5 or lower.  If the power
is on, "PDaXcess" is up (averaging about 2 1/2 months of uptime before
Portland General Electric causes a reboot).  The main phone number
is (503) 644-8135, and there are currently five other lines behind
it.  Enter "bbs" when confronted with the menacing "login:" prompt,
then enter "new" to setup a new account.

Having real problems?  Call the store during regular business hours
(10AM-6PM Monday-Friday, 10AM-5PM Saturday) at (503) 646-8257 and ask 
for help.  Or attend one of our regular "Welcome to the machine" 
sessions held at the store.  We now have terminals available for use
so that you can see exactly how to use the system.  Anyone is welcome to
use the terminals to access news and mail.  We'd appreciate terminal
users keeping their sessions to an hour a day.

"PDaXcess" is free.  If you'd like additional features, additional
time, or just want to support public access usenet, you're encouraged
to become a "techbook" subscriber.  (No, you don't get a bumper
sticker.  :-) )  "techbook" subscriptions are $5/month or $50/year and 
entitle you to a shell account, download privileges, and access to 
the Telebit or V.32 numbers.  For $10/month or $100/year, you get an
account with ftp and telnet access to the Internet.  Please contact 
root@techbook.com for more info on subscriptions.

(The weird capitalization of "PDaXcess" is meant to convey three things:
that the system is in "PDX", which is the standard abbreviation for 
Portland; "access", meaning that anyone can get on; and "PD", meaning that
it's public domain, or no charge.  Most systems are not case-sensitive,
so you can ignore it. )

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