HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: icsip118@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: BBS numbers in Montana
Reply-To: icsip118@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 02:22:51 GMT


I would like to hear from someone if they know any good reliable
BBSs that are located in the Montana area.

Thank you for reading my file
	
					-Silvermane

why is it when a cat is hungry it says meow
and when it wants out it says meow and when
you swing it by its tail it says meeeeeeeeeooooooooooooooww!

----to cat lovers this is a joke I do not really swing cats by
their tails...that often.
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: BBS Trial
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:44:47 GMT

Steven_P._Oliver@bearsden.UUCP (Steven P. Oliver) writes:

>pocketbooks.  It can carry 200 message areas and more nice features and
>only takes moments to set up.  Good luck.

Is QBBS as limited as TBBS with only 65000 messages online?

-- 
Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.rn.com
keeper of the Gator                                  uucp: uunet!gator!larry
From: jjpf@tecno.inescn.pt (Joao Jose Pinto Ferreira)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: help
Date: 15 Sep 1992 11:43:44 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
From: 00cchall@bsu-ucs.uucp (Chael Hall)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Annoying Users...
Date: 11 Sep 92 00:06:37 GMT


     Oh, I forgot...  One other thing is that it is technically fraud and if
you know who's doing it you should have some legal grounds.  I haven't checked
it out, though, you could see what EFF (electronics frontier foundation)
has to say about it.  They have their own newsgroup.

Chael
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: agb001@acad.drake.edu
Subject: Re: Annoying Users...
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:30:58 GMT

I thank everyone for the information they have given. I'll give some more info
for those people to understand my circumstances.

I run a BBS on a Commodore 64 with 20 Megs of space. It is mainly a message
base system with 200 Maximum Messages. (The drive can handle more, but the
program can't). I have a maximum baud rate of 2400.

I have co-sysoped on at least three other BBSes on similar equipment (usually
including my hard drive). On all of those BBSes we have had problems from one
user in particular, no one really has ever talked to him nor voice validated
him. 

Now new users on my BBS get 15 minutes of time, no mail priveledges (except
feedback), have access to read only the first ten text files describing the
BBS rules. That is really it. I have installed a feature that will allow 
my BBS to not accept certain users if I know they are going to constantly
be annoying.

Now I haven't had too much of a problem yet, I know that this character HAS
caused some bigs problems on other boards. I just wanted to be prepared...

Tony Bossaller
AGB001@acad.drake.edu
ParaPsykotic (DSW)
From: damir@infopls.chi.il.us (Damir Matanic)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Usenet\Internt mail in 212 and 718?
Date: 12 Sep 92 03:44:35 GMT
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL


  Does anyone know of any sites in the 212 and 718 areas that have the 
Usenet conferences and Internet mail?  If you do, please send me your 
reply at:
damir@infopls.chi.il.us
Thanks

--
damir@infopls.chi.il.us (Damir Matanic)
Infoplus BBS, +1 708 537 0247, v32bis. Home of Infoplus.
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.bbs.misc,comp.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: The bogus Nixpub Posting
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:38:11 GMT

In <=6vnh-d@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:

>yury@bknight.jpr.com (Yury German) writes:

>>	JOHN!!! and anyone else involved in this.... DO YOU MIND!!!!!
>>Take it to EMAIL for god's sake! If you want to argue about it please do
>>not involve the rest of us. If you want to have more then one person argue
>>create a mailing list for BOGUS NIXPUB POSTING I for one (and I am sure
>>about 100 or so other people do not want to hear this Bull anymore.

>Well!  You COULD do like a few of the other SIPs (self-important People)
>have done and use your kill file.  Or you COULD simply not post.  After 
>all, this issue had died down for at least a week when you popped up to 
>complain again.

And so now YOU have to try to really start up the thread by once again
being nasty to someone.  Do you EVER post anything that isn't a flame
against someone or something?  If not, your recommendation about kill
files is certainly a good one.  If so, I have yet to see it anywhere.

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: Steven_P._Oliver@bearsden.UUCP (Steven P. Oliver)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Dont knock QBBS
Date: 8 Sep 92 02:19:34 GMT
Organization: The Bear's Den BBS   (715) 839-7997

Though TBBS is used on many Univ. systems and main frames, you can find
QBBS used also, except it tends to be used by Non-public systems more often
than not.  100 messages or so back I read where someone said that QBBS
could not be read offline and technically this is only sort of true..There
are suppost programs made for the highly versatile QBBS software which will
allow almost anything to be done, including off line reading.  Also QBBS is
menu driven and is Highly compatible with ANY external event or program. I
can run any program through the BBS with QBBS and I could not do this with
the many other pieces of BBS software that I tried.  It would be worth a
check into QBBS if you are looking for an expandable system(plus its low
registration cost and heavy support)

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,alt.internet.services
From: fsspr@acad3.alaska.edu (Sean P. Ryan, Hardcore Alaskan)
Subject: Re: GEnie Connection
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41.UAC
Organization: University of Fairbanks, Alaska...no wait, that's not right...
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:55:00 GMT

(Changed the Newsgroups: line on this, as the original and all follow-
ups on this were inappropriately cross-posted, IMO - Sean)

In article <yury.02wm@bknight.jpr.com>, yury@bknight.jpr.com (Yury German) writes...
>
> Conditions of Use
> -----------------
> 
> *  Messages received through the Internet Mail Service are for your personal
>    use only.  Any redistribution is strictly prohibited.  Failure to observe
>    this restriction may result in the revocation of your Internet Mail
>    Service access and/or cancellation of your GEnie account.

I am assuming that the main purpose of this restriction is so that
information being sent to GEnie over the Internet will never make its
way onto any of their message bases.  This way, the know-it-alls on
GEnie whose frequent misinformation is taken for gospel by their users
can sleep knowing that they will not be usurped by another body of
knowledge.

I also find the surcharges to be outrageous.  But then again, this is a
commercial service and their purpose is to make money.  What should one
expect?  There will be enough people out there who are too stupid to
know any better and will pay for it.

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Newsgroups: alt.bbs,alt.sex
From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: Big Brother BBS policies
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:14:50 GMT

In article <HERMIT.92Sep10190239@am.ucsc.edu> hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward) writes:
>
>For one thing, it makes setting up an account so simple there's no
>challenge in it, which is a deterrent in itself, I think.  In the last
>six years, there have been two "annoying users" in this particular BBS
>community--both were eventually kicked off or lost their posting
>privileges.  One of them tried using another name, and after an overly
>long (IMHO) time period, the sysop kicked them off.  [I'm talking
>about XBBS, the tree-structured system in Santa Cruz CA here, and the
>"repeat offender" now haunts alt.sex as rstevew@deeptht.armory.com]

Why am I not surprised at this?
-- 
   And thither came Conan, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, to tread the jeweled 
   thrones of the Earth beneath his sandaled feet.  --THE NEMEDIAN CHRONICLES 
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From: lazarea@mercury.ncat.edu (Andy Lazare)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: bbs/internet access 304 area code
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:09:24 GMT
Organization: North Carolina A&T State University

this is for my brother. he lives in the charleston w.va. area. are there
any bbs's around there that provide him with internet access.

any info would be appreciated.

andy

-- 
Andy lazare                  internet  lazarea@garfield.ncat.edu
n.c. a&t state univ                    lazarea@mercury.ncat.edu
greensboro, n.c.             bitnet    lazarea@atsuvax1.bitnet
 
From: Robert.Presland@helldisk.helldisk.helldisk (Robert Presland)
Sender: FredMail@helldisk.helldisk.helldisk
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Please!
Date: 13 Sep 92  14:11:54 EST

Can someone please respond to this via netmail at robert.presland@f27.n243.z1.fidonet.org.  Thanks.
From: rjus@uonline.com (ren_just)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Big Brother BBS policies
Date: 14 Sep 92 10:44:16 GMT
Organization: Just Computers!

: Holy jesus... I thought the first guy was pretty far fetched... but my GOD!
: Jesus, if I was a sysop I'd blacklist your number and tell all my sysops to
: to... good thing you have your own BBS.
: 
: I have pirated software, I don't upload it, but stuill... contacting the POLICE?
: I mean, I might kick the guy off but I'd never ever do that...
: 
: Jeez... I'd be scared to go on your board... and so would thousands of other
: users.  MAN... I have some files which I believe to be shareware, but since
: there is no docs I don't know... and if I upload it, and it turns out to be
: comercial... HOLY SHIT... I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'D DO THAT.
: 
: SO what do you do... put up an ELITE section then CALL THE COPS everytime 
: someone downloads it?
: 
: PS>... I HAVE PIRATED SOFTWARE... not on my board.. but about 50% of what I
: have is.  It's cause I just don't have the cash.  SO BUST ME COPPERS!  Also,
: while your at it... BUST ALL MY FRIENDS, AND 80% of all computer users.
: 
: PSS... You don't happen to believe in KGB tactics do ya?
: .

You might want to re-read my post.  I never did say I was going to *turn-in*
a person who uploaded pirated software.  You are very quick to jump to
conclusions as to what I say.  After being involved with a few companies that
I worked for which found commercial software on a BBS, I am familiar with
the procedure.

1.  Find out who originally uploaded the software in the first place and
    send a nasty letter.

2.  Find out who downloaded the commercial software and send a letter
    explaining to them that they need to either purchase the software or
    delete it.

I am sorry to hear you don't have the cash to purchase software.  Question
for you though.  Would you go into a computer store and walk out with a 
modem without paying?  Can you honestly tell me the difference between what
you are doing and stealing the modem?  It is just that stealing software is
so much easier that what are honest individuals don't quite get the picture
of what they are doing.  Let's hope when you get the cash, you start
purchasing some of the software.

Randy Just
uonline@infoserv.com

Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: bjpocock@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Beastor the Mad)
Subject: Re: Big Brother BBS policies
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:56:59 GMT

>|> No, you moron.  Of course you don't let illegal information stay on your
>|> computer.  Of course you don't let a user who posts illegal information
>|> stay on your computer.  But if you take the initiative and inform the
>|> police about that person, then you most certainly ARE a "[explitive
>|> deleted] pig"
>
>The original poster that if they saw someone post a stolen number 
>(credit card, sprint access code {I forget which}) they would inform 
>the authorities. 

Actually, I think he stated that if someone uploaded a piece of commercial
software, he would not only delete his account but call the cops!  Perhaps
I miss-read it... if someone has the original copy I'd love it...

							-BEASTOR THE MAD->
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.allsysop,alt.bbs.internet
From: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com (Andy Finkenstadt)
Subject: Re: GEnie Connection
Reply-To: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com
Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:48:09 GMT

swalter@nyx.cs.du.edu (DreamWeaver) writes:
>I'd just like to toss a couple more points onto Yury's post about the
>GEnie/Internet link ... which is about time, if you ask me.

This is the first official one.  Another GEnie sysop and myself
have run gateways previously with varying amounts of traffic as
a learning experience & service to GEnie users.  Another piece
of trivia which helped support the idea that there is a viable
market for an Internet connection.

>3)  Like they said, this is strictly an Internet Mail gateway.  GEnie
>doesn't have ftp or news-feed capability (although, I'm wondering whether
>GEnie users could subscribe to Internet Mail lists ... it seems feasable).

Yes, it works.  I know several members who are doing this.
So does ftpmail.

>-Scotty

-- 
Andrew Finkenstadt       | Vista-Chrome, Inc.   |           andy@GEnie
GEnie Unix Sysop/Manager | The Printing House   |    NIC Handle: AF136
+1 904 222 2639 home     | 1600 Capital Cir SW  |   ...!uunet!rde!andy
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     The game of love is never called off on account of darkness.
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.bbs.misc,comp.misc
From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Sys Admin)
Subject: Re: The bogus Nixpub Posting
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX System (416-249-5366) 24hrs.
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 14:34:17 GMT

In article <=6vnh-d@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
>yury@bknight.jpr.com (Yury German) writes:
>
>>	JOHN!!! and anyone else involved in this.... DO YOU MIND!!!!!
>>Take it to EMAIL for god's sake! If you want to argue about it please do
>>not involve the rest of us. If you want to have more then one person argue
>>create a mailing list for BOGUS NIXPUB POSTING I for one (and I am sure
>>about 100 or so other people do not want to hear this Bull anymore.
>
>Well!  You COULD do like a few of the other SIPs (self-important People)
>have done and use your kill file.  Or you COULD simply not post.  After 
>all, this issue had died down for at least a week when you popped up to 
>complain again.
>
	I have to agree with John on this one :((  The arguement
has been dead for at least a week...when the subject sort of
reverted over to Coherent and if you didn't want to follow it, ther
is always a KILL file, or the 'n' key if you don't know how to use a KILL
file :)

Marc
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Etobicoke, Ontario    | 416-249-5366   24hrs 7 days/week   network email
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Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: bjpocock@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Beastor the Mad)
Subject: Global Wars online game
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 02:08:13 GMT

Does anyone have a version of Global Wars online game for the IBM that I can
leach... or know where I can get one!

Thanx for the info...

Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: mimir@milton.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
Subject: Re: Sad to say...
Organization: The Friends of Loki Society
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 04:30:46 GMT

In article <Bu5pus.Gxv@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>elendil@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (Edward J. Branley) writes:
>
>>This is quite true.  My system is a good example of that decline.  I started
>>this BBS as a small, alias-based system running RBBS on my old original Compaq.
>>I got bit by the fidonet bug before usenet, and local stuff declined from that
>
>most of us started with fidonet, then mature into usenet

 Well, Usenet does not have everything for all of its greatness. My BBS is
part of a network that uses the Fidonet style networking (since it is
mainly DOS machines and either Fido nodes or ex-Fido nodes) and it has
what my users want. I would love to switch to some variant of *nix but
then I would have to drop off of the network, at least for a few months.
All of the interface software between Usenet/UUCP and Fidonet style
networking is really bad on the *nix side and not much better (with the
exception of Waffle) on the Fido technology or DOS side. There are
*dozens* of small, special interest networks using Fidonet style
networking on mainly DOS machines.

Wassail,
Grendel
Sysop of The Sacred Grove

                           mimir@u.washington.edu
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From: elendil@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (Edward J. Branley)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Sad to say...
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 17:56:10 CDT
Organization: Minas Tirith BBS (Public Access Usenet for New Orleans)

davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:

> >This concept gets confusing, since many of the comm/mailer packages that do
> >fidonet-technology can be set up to accomodate a site that's in multiple
> >networks.  This means that a node can take calls from nodes in different net
> >with the same software.  The user calling that BBS sees it all, which can le
> >to confusion.
>
> I guess I should have made the question clearer and separated the
> hard/soft links from the administrative links. Are these networks
> part of or connected to FidoNet administratively?

No.  All of them have separate administrative types.  As I said, there's so
much overlap among these systems that it's all very confusing.  It's not
unusual for someone in one city to be a co-ordinator in multiple nets.  This is
normally someone with a big hard drive, faster modem, etc.

> >> Do you mean you use the Fidonet administrative policy document (no
> >> idea.)
>
> >Most of the 'OtherNets' have their own policy documents.  Some are modelled
> >after Fidonet, others are radically different.  Some have very little writte
> >policy at all.
>
> That sort of answers my question above, but are some of the machines
> on these OtherNets have hard/soft links to FidoNet as well?
>

Oh, definitely.  At one time, my system was in four nets.  Fidonet, V-Net,
PODnet, and ChateauNet.  I know of a system here in New Orleans that's in Fido,
Rbbs-Net, KinkNet (adult), and one or two others, I believe.

What ends up happening is that echomail (news) is passed within the
'OtherNets,' while netmail (mail) is passed through Fidonet.  The OtherNets
maintain 'ownership' of the echos (newsgroups) to keep them outside of Fidonet
politics.  Since mail is more or less a private thing, and not really an issue
in terms of Fidonet, its larger distribution system is used for mail.

This is more or less a general description.  I do know of some systems that are
exclusively in an OtherNet, but those are very few.  Most stay in Fido for
netmail distribution, but decline to take echomail from the Fidonet backbone.




>Edward J. Branley         elendil@mintir.new-orleans.la.us<
>Seashell Software, Metairie, LA            +1-504-455-5087<
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: looking for a window or windows based Waffle usenet reader
Date: 14 Sep 92 23:21:43 GMT
Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan

larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

>bazelman@pcs.uucp (Rudy Bazelmans) writes:

>>I just started using waffle and I love it but I am not at all thrilled
>>with the news reader.  

>>Does anyone know of any window-based or MS/Windows-based news
>>reader that is compatible with waffle usenet groups?

>what we (the world) needs is a full screen GNU like usenet news/email
>interface for DOS (or OS2) -- with pop up windows, etc..  and supports
>ethernet (TCP/IP).

Not to start (continue?) an OS flame war but I think it was Dennis
Ritchie who said it's easier to port UNIX to a new machine and run
the old application on it than port the application to a new OS....

Only something to consider :-)

Dave

--
Dave McLane 
JUNET: davidg@aegis.or.jp (ONLY within Japan: post otherwise)
Nagaokakyoshi, Kyoto Japan Tel: +81-75-951-1168 Fax: +81-75-957-1087
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: Big Brother BBS policies
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:41:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.145722.29768@panix.com> fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) writes:
>
>No, you moron.  Of course you don't let illegal information stay on your
>computer.  Of course you don't let a user who posts illegal information
>stay on your computer.  But if you take the initiative and inform the
>police about that person, then you most certainly ARE a "fucking pig"

Did the person who posted the original message say he was taking the
initiative?  no!  so you call people "fucking pigs" based on something
they never did or claimed they'd do.  It is obvious to anyone (well,
almost anyone) that he was only trying to protect himself.  If that
makes someone a "fucking pig", then we should all be proud to bear that
title.
-- 
What did Dan Quayle get on his IQ test? 
                                             Drool.
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