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From: lampman@fullfeed.fullfeed.com (Ray Lampman)
Subject: WANTED: Madison Wisconsin USA area BBS list.
Followup-To: alt.bbs.lists
Summary: Please post or E-mail such lists if any exist.
Reply-To: Ray.Lampman@FullFeed.Com
Organization: FullFeed - Public Access Usenet/E-mail (+1 608 246 2701 guest)
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:26:30 GMT
Expires: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 07:11:14 GMT

Greetings,

I'm looking for lists of BBSs in the Madison  Wisconsin  area.  I
would  also  like  contact addresses for whom-ever maintains such
lists. Please post or E-mail such lists if any exist.

Thank you very much,

Ray.Lampman
-- 
Ray.Lampman@FullFeed.Com ,^-_  FullFeed provides public access to
FullFeed Communications  L   `; Usenet news and E-mail, plus UUCP
Madison, WI 53704, USA   \ . J    connections to the Madison area
voice +1 608 246 4239     L__]   data +1 608 246 2701 login guest
From: david.benfell@stargate.actrix.gen.nz (David Benfell) 
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.lists
Subject: MASTER BBS LIST
Date: 27 Jan 93 11:35:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Stargate BBS - Wellington, NZ - +64 4 566-2157
Reply-To: david.benfell@stargate.actrix.gen.nz (David Benfell) 

dise@vector.intercon.com (David Casti) writes:

-> I am building a master BBS list and am actively soliciting all BBS
-> lists that anyone has.  I will be scanning this newsgroup regularly,
-> but if you could email them to me at:

Hi David.  How would you like a New Zealand BBS list as at January 1993?
if so, how do I send it to you as I'm new to Usenet?

Cheers
                  
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|   Stargate BBS  +64 4 566-2157 (USR DS)  +64 4 566-6728 (2400)   |
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From: tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: help
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:39:07 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <FAEBfOhqGT@germes.simbirsk.su> root@germes.simbirsk.su (Oleg V. Andreev) writes:
>help
>list
>quit

Trapped in vi, eh?
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: rice@ttd.teradyne.com
Subject: Re: Search capabilities in BBS's?
Organization: Teradyne Inc., Telecommunications Division
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 22:31:57 GMT

 In article <1993Jan21.205940.3901@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, writes:
> 
>    I am not that familiar with all the different BBS's out there in
> cyberspace but the few I have seen are limited in one thing I am
> looking for. I would like to store text based documents and allow
> users to search through the system on keywords of their choosing.
> Something perhaps similiar to rn but with the ability to search each
> article for a string not just the header. The system would return the
> articles marked with the string highlighted. Something like a
> hypertext stack now that I think about it. Does such a system exist in
> BBS form? in PD or Shareware?
 

TBBS has some Text search capability built-in, but probably not as extensive
as you want. There is a third party TDBS program specifically written to 
address text search/retrieval that I hear is pretty good, but I don't know
much about it. For other boards, there are some third party 'door' programs
which do this.

I've not heard of a BBS program that is specifically optimized for text search.

   John Rice        K9IJ  
   rice@ttd.teradyne.com  


Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
Subject: BBS Development..
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:06:37 GMT

BBS Development:

Multiline would be nice.. Maybe a BBS that is compartable..


Michael Adams
Alias: Morgoth/Ghost Wheel 
nsmca@acad2.alaska.edu

Xref: sparky alt.bbs:8116 alt.bbs.allsysop:940
From: vpoy@terapin.com (Vincent Poy)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: BBS Development Newsgroup. Interested?
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:51:39 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <marlow.727611748@radon.sys.uea.ac.uk>, marlow@sys.uea.ac.uk (Keith
Marlow PG) writes:
>nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
>
>>Would anyone be interested ina BBS-Development newsgroup.. generally for
>>programmers, but also open to Sysops (all types) and users of BBSes..
>
>>I have seen alot of BBS types, and netware, front doors, and other 
>>items for BBSes and such.. Maybe it is time to list them, and to find ways to
>>standardize BBSes a bit (atleast make better ways to integrate)..
>
>       I vote a big YES for such a newsgroup - it is something which is
>lacking here considering the number of developers & developing BBS's on the
>internet now.
>
>  Keith Marlow
>--
>Keith Marlow,              *  Phone Cyclone BBS on 0603 260973; 100Mb of
>Information Systems P/G,   * downloads for Arc's & Beebs + associated fidonet
>University of East Anglia, * echoes + all information on commercial radio +
>Norwich. Norfolk NR4 7TJ   * + Acorn support area. Running on Archiboard s/w.
Yes, Me too. Hope they can implement somehow of making a DOS bbs software
capable of being in Internet with all InterNet features even though it's one
user at a time...

Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.bbs.misc
From: rcmolden@parmesan.cs.wisc.edu (Robertc. Moldenhauer)
Subject: Re: DTS-0001 proposed standard
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:27:10 GMT

In article <1juep1INNdhj@life.ai.mit.edu> petrilli@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Petrilli) writes:
>[ Narrow-minded DOS drivel deleted. ]
>
>While I think that there is an excellent concept in standardizing BBS
>software so that it can talk to eachother, the document you sent out is
>worthless to a large number of people.  There are more people on Usenet
>than on FideNet, so the mail addresses are useless.  Why don't people
>just use the standards that are already there.
>
>	Mail:		RFC822 with MIME extensions for multi-media
>	News:		RFC1032 with use of the "X-*" header extensions
>	Config file:	Is it really that important?
>	Dates:		Try the internaltional standards: DAY MON YEAR

Yes, makes much more sense.

>	Phone numbers:	Same thing: ISO standard: +1 XXX XXX XXXX

He did suggest this, BTW, +1 is only the USA and Canada, +44 would be the
UK, etc.  Also 7 digit phone numbers are *NOT* all that common outside 
North America and many countries don't have city/region/area codes, a
proper french telephone number would be: +33 XX XX XX XX 


Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: aspowers@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Anne S Powers)
Subject: Re: ONLINE Multiplayer game Trade Wars on INTERNET
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:34:06 GMT

Trade Wars WORLD (tww@sunl3sf.cern.ch) wrote:
: 
: Trade Wars 2002 is a well known online multiplayer game in the BBS world.
: 
: Playing Trade Wars on a local BBS can already be very addictive, but the
: number of players is usually small due to expensive long distance modem
: calls, and therefore there is not enough competition to make a game real
: fun!
: 
: BUT, as of today  Trade Wars WORLD  -INTERNET-BBS-  has opened its gates
: to the INTERNET.
: 
: This BBS runs the Trade Wars 2002 game, and is accessable to everybody
: that can get the telnet program to connect to it. The purpose of this
: BBS is to allow worlds largest Trade Wars game, where players from all
: over the world can compete against each other...
: 
: The BBS hosts several Trade Wars games at the same time, each user can play
: in one of the games. Every so-often a new game will be created, and the
: best players from the other games are invited to play in the new game,
: allowing for both new users to participate in the old game as well as for
: the invited players to play in a game with even better opponent than
: before.
: 
: Please have a look around and participate in Trade Wars!
: 
: 
: 	Login:		telnet nelsons.cern.ch 2002
: 
: 	Email:		tww@work.cern.ch
: 
: 
: 
: 
: 
: -- 
:  _____    _    _    _    _          login:  telnet nelsons.cern.ch 2002
: (__ __)  ( \/\/ )  ( \/\/ )         e-mail:            tww@work.cern.ch
:   | |     \    /    \    /
:   (_)rade  \/\/ars   \/\/ORLD                            -INTERNET-BBS-
From: bde2161@summa.tamu.edu (EVANS, BRYAN DANIEL)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: bbs by ftp..
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:45:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: summa.tamu.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Howdy!
  I am considering starting a bbs, but don't want to put lots of money 
into it yet...Could someone please post or mail me any ftp sites which 
have decent bbs software?


Thanks in advance...
Bryan

bde2161@zeus.tamu.edu
Xref: sparky alt.bbs:8233 comp.bbs.misc:1907
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.bbs.misc
Subject: Re: DTS-0001 proposed standard
From: jim.wenzel@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (Jim Wenzel) 
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:54:00 GMT
Reply-To: jim.wenzel@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (Jim Wenzel) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The GrapeVine BBS *** N. Little Rock, AR *** (501) 753-8121



Peter Busser * That won't help the people  that are stuck with FidoNet
               stuff at all. The only thing for MS-DOS that looks like
               a BBS  (flames >/dev/null  please) and  does USENET and
               e-mail is Waffle.
                                = = =

   Incorrect.. PCBoard w/UUPCB software does UseNet quite well. Usenet
   messages are imported directly into the PCBoard message bases.
---
 * SM 1.06 A0059 * One person with courage is a majority. - Andrew Jackson
                                                               
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: rob@sound.demon.co.uk (Robert J Barth)
Subject: Re: GIF Menus on BBSs
Reply-To: rob@sound.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: Sound & Vision BBS (UK) 0932 252323
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:42:51 +0000

>It's a given that a special term program will have to be written to allow
>for graphics to begin with.  What the term program would do, however, is 
>receive a VERY short code from the remote host, perhaps a filename and a
>date.  It would check to see if it has the filename (which would be the GIF
>file) and check it's date to make sure it's current.  If these were not
go find RoboBBS

=----------------------------------.----------------------------------------=
| Nominal  : Rob Barth             | RJB Communications (+44) (0)932 253131 |
| InterNet : rob@sound.demon.co.uk | Sound & Vision BBS (+44) (0)932 252323 |
| FidoNet  : sysop, 2:254/14       |  The best UK BBS with a full UseNet &  |
| Nyx      : rbarth@nyx.cs.du.edu  | Internet Email feed. All hours/speeds. |
=----------------------------------.----------------------------------------=
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: T0FG000 <T0FG@UNB.CA>
Subject: DTS-0001, the BBS <=> Doorware proposed standard
Organization: The University of New Brunswick
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:59:20 GMT

Allow me to clear something up for Mr. Pirelli.  I have absolutely
no objection to proposing standards or adopting already existing
standards in any application.  I feel my contribution to the
DTS-0001 proposal is in bringing about the inclusion of existing
standards into it.

BUT - you have a MUCH larger picture of what you would like to
standardize than the DTS-0001 standard was ever conceived of
covering.  Allow me to reiterate a concept mentioned in another
message: DTS-0001 ONLY affects the interface of the calling BBS to
the external programs (or doors).  It is clear that this area is
important to anyone running a DOS-based BBS.  Under other operating
systems, this problem may already be sufficiently covered not to be
the nuisance it is under DOS.  (An operating system that wasn't
anticipated to be as popular and long-lived as it has been... it is
here, and those who use it must live with it.)

If you wish to continue a thread that covers more general topics
such as
standardization of BBS design from the ground up, please remove the
reference to DTS-0001 from the subject line to minimize confusion,
except where its presence is relevant.

To summarize: this standard is not intended to affect the operation,
design or use of the target external BBS program, except its
interface with the BBS software.  Mail standards issues are only of
interest in the area of data type and size.  Interconnectivity
issues are not relevant except where the BBS needs to communicate to
an external program.

As for Fidonet being broken... well, its popular on 6 continents so
far.  In addition, there are dozens of other smaller networks in
existence
as well.  The purpose of this standard is not to change any aspects
of any of these networks, but rather to be compliant in terms of
data types such that BBSes that must use dropfiles can communicate
to the external program.

After all, the problem definition was to alleviate the problems
introduced by the myriad of dropfile formats mentioned in the
standard.  If the system you envision does not use dropfiles to
communicate to external programs, you are probably reading the wrong
document.

Will.


---------------------------------------- William Burrow
Internet:  t0fg@unb.ca                      |
           will@p1.f14.n255.z1.fidonet.org  | I'm not UNB, thats
Fidonet:  1:255/14.1                        | someone else...
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Search capabilities in BBS's?
From: doug@telerama.pgh.pa.us (Doug Luce)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:30:42 GMT
Organization: Telerama
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Mark Coverdill (mcover@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
> I would like to store text based documents and allow
> users to search through the system on keywords of their choosing.
> Something perhaps similiar to rn but with the ability to search each
> article for a string not just the header. The system would return the
> articles marked with the string highlighted. Something like a
> hypertext stack now that I think about it. Does such a system exist in
> BBS form? in PD or Shareware?

WAIS is something similar to this.  Telnet to quake.think.com and log
in as wais for a demo.  Whether or not this qualifies as BBS form
depends on your idea of what a BBS is.

Doug Luce
Telerama TCP/IP BBS
412/481-5302
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: T0FG000 <T0FG@UNB.CA>
Subject: DTS-0001, data type compliancy
Organization: The University of New Brunswick
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:13:46 GMT


Peter, you are indeed correct, Fidgeting uses 72 character subject
lines.  Not only that, Fido also uses 36 character name fields (for
the TO: and FROM: fields).

So, looks like there are some minimal deficiencies in that area to
correct.

While I am here, I would like to reiterate a request to move
unproductive flames on this topic to another subject line.  I am all
for productive exchanges on this or any other topic, and given the
existence of ONEBBS, there is definitely more than one person
interested in developing an all encompassing BBS standard, but
splitting hairs to the subatomic level on personal biases is
unnecessary.

Those who do develop doors and BBSes are very welcome to comment and
suggest corrections or more inclusions for the proposal... it can't
come into being without the support of those who need it. It is a
practical standard and its development to date has occurred over
several months via open discussion between door authors and BBS
operators on the Fidgeting and Doornet (Fidgeting compatible
Othernet<tm>) networks.

Will.


---------------------------------------- William Burrow
Internet:  t0fg@unb.ca                      |
           will@p1.f14.n255.z1.fidonet.org  | I'm not UNB, thats
Fidonet:  1:255/14.1                        | someone else...
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: mlfidler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael L Fidler Jr)
Subject: internet to prodagy mail
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:58:18 GMT


     argh. does anyone have the format to send intenet mail to someone
on (of all things) prodagy?

     thanks
        Mike
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: mcover@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark Coverdill)
Subject: Search capabilities in BBS's?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:59:40 GMT

   I am not that familiar with all the different BBS's out there in
cyberspace but the few I have seen are limited in one thing I am
looking for. I would like to store text based documents and allow
users to search through the system on keywords of their choosing.
Something perhaps similiar to rn but with the ability to search each
article for a string not just the header. The system would return the
articles marked with the string highlighted. Something like a
hypertext stack now that I think about it. Does such a system exist in
BBS form? in PD or Shareware?

-- 
Mark Coverdill                                 The Ohio State University
Internet: markc+@osu.edu                              Columbus, Ohio
From: cfs@cowpas.waffle.atl.ga.us (Charles Stephens)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: USENET bbs
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:21:06 GMT
Organization: COW Pastures
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

larry@trauma.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
: blackwlf@blackwlf.uucp writes:
: 
: >Looking for Usenet and or Mail? (Local to the Atlanta area?)
: 
: This is the wrong newsgroup for these type of postings.  If you are
: going to be involved with usenet, then please follow the rules and use
: alt.bbs.ads for advertisements.
: 
: btw, you only offer 100 newsgroups, our machines offer 2400 newsgroups --
: so your selection is very limited :)

	Yeah, but are you free?!?!?  He is.

-- 
Charles Stephens
cfs@cowpas.atl.ga.us
"And they say USENET is worthless..."  --Unknown
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.unixbbs
From: anadeem@ampere.all (Ahmed Nadeem)
Subject: MRI CT-SCAN IMAGES FOR DOGS
Organization: /home/ampere1/anadeem/.organization
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:09:19 GMT

Netters,
      I am currently working on a research project that involves construction 
of realistic, solid or geometric models for dogs.
      Does anyone know where I can get serial section images( MRI, CT-SCAN, 
etc ) for dogs?
                                                       Thanks,
                                                              Ahmed Nadeem
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.unixbbs
From: rkelly@shearson.com (Richard A. Kelly)
Subject: Need Info.
Reply-To: rkelly@shearson.com
Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:21:10 GMT

I am in the process of researching the best way to set up a BBS on a
SPARC 2.  I would like to have a direct Internet connection (56K line)
When responding please email me directly at 'rkelly@shearson.com' because
I don't get the chance to log on often.  


What I need to know is:

What are some of the BBS packages that I could use?  Where can they be
   found and how nuch do they cost?

Where can various types of games and added features be located?

What is the best way to get connected to Internet?  

Thank you for your assistance.


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 _/    _/  _/  _/_/_/_/  _/    _/       (212) 640-7252
From: pgoujard@infocom.UUCP (Philippe Goujard)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.unixbbs
Subject: Re: Writing a Unix BBS
Date: 24 Jan 93 23:21:38 GMT
Organization: INFOCOM Public Unix Server, +44 [0] 734 340055
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

John Case (dirk@iastate.edu) wrote:
> I'd like to know what people like to see featurewise.
>   I'm partial, myself, to the type of interface the ISCABBS uses.
> (Iowa Student Computer Association BBS, at bbs.isca.uiowa.edu, no login 'cause

> the bbs program itself takes over port 13, not the login program...)
>   But with perhaps a few more features...

Well, I just had a look at the ISCA bbs and ... it sucks :-)
Really the interface is based on citadel and it is definitely NOT user 
friendly. 
Some ideas :
  
  - Have hierarchic menus, it is easy to navigate and to see where you are
  
  - Have keywords or "command line" for expert users who know where they want
  to go.
  
  - Think about terminals : support several. From ansi color to vt100 etc...
  
  - Have full screen programs but be warned than if you get callers at 2400 
  bps for example they might not like it... so have scrolling versions as 
  well.
  
  - More and more people like client-server architecture : think about 
  having off-line mail/news readers, intelligent terminals etc...
  
-- 
Philippe Goujard <Sysop>                   Email : pgoujard@infocom.UUCP
       Infocom : Public Usenet access in the UK - (0734) 34 00 55
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.unixbbs
From: dirk@iastate.edu (John Case)
Subject: Writing a Unix BBS
Keywords: coding, bbs
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:34:11 GMT

 I'm currently writing a unix bbs, to be run on Ultrix 4.2. (it's what
my school's computer uses, so I don't have much of a choice, as I have
no access to any other flavour of unix).
  I'm just looking for ideas on what kind of features or interfaces
to use in the bbs. I'm pretty sure of -how- i want it to run, but
I'd like to know what people like to see featurewise.
  I'm partial, myself, to the type of interface the ISCABBS uses.
(Iowa Student Computer Association BBS, at bbs.isca.uiowa.edu, no login 'cause
the bbs program itself takes over port 13, not the login program...)
  But with perhaps a few more features...
 
  Oh, yeah. It's gonna be written in C++, if anyone cares.


-- 
------------                                       | <insert deep quote here> 
Don't blame me, man. I voted Libertarian.          |   -<famous person here>
FUCKING HOSTILE . (Pantara. Lovely family music.)  |
#include "standard_disclaimer.h"                   |
From: djh6@po.CWRU.Edu (David J. Hurst)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Need telnetable bbs list
Date: 22 Jan 93 16:54:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


If someone has this list please email it to me .

-- 
David J. Hurst
(216) 368-6888
email: djh6@po.cwru.edu or hurst@alpha.ces.cwru.edu
From: jfoy@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Jeff Foy)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Roboboard
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:47:19 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: glia.biostr.washington.edu

Ok, I must admit that you've finally piqued my interest. Now just where 
the heck can one FTP the current copy of Roboboard (and the user's program
to access it)?


-- 
Jeffery Foy -- jfoy@glia.biostr.washington.edu
             *** FREE BILL & KATHY SWAN ***
-*- Happy as a clam to be using Professional YAM -*-  :)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.bbs.misc
From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: DTS-0001 standard proposal
Organization: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:56:02 GMT

In article <20JAN93.23485935.0088@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> T0FG <T0FG@UNB.CA> writes:
)Proposed DTS-0001 standard follows....

looks good, but i have a few minor suggestions.

)|       Net addresses:      <zone>:<net>/<node>.<point>@<organization>

Too inflexible.  Not all networks are Fido-compatible.  What about Internet,
UUCP, and WWIVNet formats?  You'll need to support "user@foo.bar.xyz" and
"user@number", and probably another half-dozen formats.

)        PORTADDR    = <addr>
)|           Notes:          03E8 hex = 1000 decimal

how about accepting hex values here if they are preceded by "0x"?

)        REPLYTOPIC  = <topic reply is about>
)|           Range:          String not more than 32 characters in length.

Many programs support longer titles.


Overall, I liked it...
-- 
And now, Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey:
    If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, go real limp, so people will think
    you're a dummy, and they'll try to catch you, because hey, free dummy!
hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu             _V_a_l_h_a_l_l_a BBS, 217-352-3682, WWIV4.21, 14.4k
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.waffle,comp.bbs.waffle