From: system@fallout.lonestar.org
Newsgroups: dfw.general
Subject: re:NEW BBS PROGRAM
Date: 24 Dec 92 01:36:38 GMT
Organization: DECUS DFWLUG BBS *Dallas*TX*

>From: myron.krawczuk@hitech.newark.nj.us (Myron Krawczuk) 
>Date: 20 Dec 92 19:29:00 GMT

>                HI! & WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY
>                    - and many years beyond
>                ---------------------------------
>This is the new UNI*STAR BASE CENTRAL: sysop@hitech.newark.nj.us
>reporting to you with great glad tidings for our wondrous STARSHIP
>EARTH and all its denizens.  The first beneficiaries of this news will
>be all SysOps interested in participating as a local UNI*STAR BASE in a
>new system from the HiTECH Group.  The UNI*STAR BASE program is designed
>to provide BBS operators and their users with:
>  A. A NEW AND SIMPLE WAY TO CHARGE AND COLLECT for BBS services,
>     software, information, images or just membership and usage;
>  B. Participation in a completely NEW NATIONWIDE FINANCIAL SYSTEM; one
>     designed TO BENEFIT EVERYONE who uses it;
>  C. A variety of new ways to GENERATE SUBSTANTIAL NEW INCOME from their
>     BBS operation with a whole array of EXCITING NEW BBS USER
>     SERVICES;

>Please mail requests for more information including your name and
>voice or data phone number to - briefing@hitech.newark.nj.us.
 

Myron, 

Forgive me but this sounds like MLM meets USEnet and it stinks.

Let me tell you about a real DEAL:

    A. The DFWLUG BBS charges a flat price of $10.00 per year (unlimited 
       access) to pay for phone lines. We offer 1700 news groups (21Mb of 
       new news daily), private E-mail accounts, private disk space, and 
       UUCP News and E-Mail feeds  for our members.
       
       Oh you want a copy of the software?  Trade me a tape.

              Other BBS's in the area are comparable.

    B. We (and most BBSs I know of) Don't need new ways of gaining
       revenue from our users, we're more than happy to cover our 
       costs and offer expanding services.
    
    C. I and most SYSOPS have no aspirations to become the next
       Compuserve or Genie and the concept of charging by the 
       byte, CPU tic, or Disk Block is a repugnant concept to 
       us.
   
    D. DECUS, and the other user groups have BBS softwares in the 
       public domain that would make even the most advanced 
       commerical efforts seem lacking.  Oh yes, they usually
       cost $15-20.00 for the media for PCs, less if you have 
       some friends in the business.

You just don't seem to get it.  BBSing isn't about making money
from the service -- it's providing information and exchange for 
people to contact each other and network.

Take the MLM stuff over to Alt.suckers and see if you get some 
fool takers there, or better still send it to the postmaster and
see if you don't get arrested.

Anyone who needs some BBS software, Newsreaders, or such, 
send me a note...

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| John Wisniewski |         Consultant/DFW DECUS LUG Counterpart           |
| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |   Voice:             214-404-6412                      |
| |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| |    UUCP:  wisniewski@fallout.lonestar.org  (DFWLUG BBS)| 
| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | At Work:  wisniewski@dpdmai.enet.dec.com               |
| Dallas, TX  USA |                                                        |
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     You're in a Maze of Twisty Little Unix varients -- All different.

(I don't usually flame but MLM schemes, roast my chestnuts -- especially
this time of year...)