From: "charlie duncan" <charlie.duncan@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: nra bbs open now!!!
Date: 2 Sep 92 04:45:51 EST
Reply-To: "charlie duncan" <charlie.duncan@execnet.com>
Distribution: talk
Organization: Executive Networks Information


       Well folks it's here!

       The NRA BBS is now open for business.

       NRA membership is required.  Plus the BBS itself requires a
  yearly fee of $15.00.

       You can register online [credit card] or pre-register on a
  voice 800 #.  [800- 486-8255]...

       NRA BBS phone # is 703-719-6406.  It is taking calls now.


       Tell Tanya Metaksa [the sysop] Charlie Duncan sent you.  [I
  need the brownie points.

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       [EDITORIAL]

       This is about how useful this BBS can be.

       For those of you who have called Tanya's other board
  [Bullet 'n Board], you may agree with me, that using it [BnB] is
  less than optimal.

       The new NRA BBS uses the same shareware software for the
  BBS as does the BnB.

       I have no idea if Tanya has fine tuned this new BBS to make
  finding files, sending posts, using mail doors, etc. easy for
  the average user...

       What I do want to point out is that a National BBS for NRA
  members is going to need a lot of services.  Files on gun laws
  in NY or Maine or Idaho are NOT something someone from Calf. or
  Texas want to plow thur while looking for files on gun laws in
  their own states.  IE, there will need to be lots of different
  file areas, that are easy to find and easy to use [browse, mark
  files, download, upload, etc.].

       There is likely to be multiple conferences -- I don't see
  how there couldn't be...  IE a mail door that allows fast
  configs and fast and easy up and downloads will be necessary.

       And on and on.

       IF it turns out that this new BBS doesn't meet the needs of
  we the users -- then we need to make sure that changes are made
  to do so.  And remember a lot of the users here are NOT going to
  be BBS sophisticated.  This may very well be the first BBS any
  of them have called!  It needs to be very very friendly too!

       It is a new BBS -- but it is running software that Tanya
  has used for 6 or 8 years.  If it isn't doing the job now, I see
  no reason to assume it will in a few weeks or months.

       As it happens, WILDCAT [Mustang Software] has a Good BBS
  software BBS program, and they have a new system using DigiCards
  that will allow a single 486 to run 8 lines at full speed.

       The NRA BBS has a 486 and they have 7 or 8 lines I
  understand.  [additional 8 lines units can be added per 486]

       Now, more importantly, some of the executives at Mustang
  are members of the NRA and they want this BBS to be a great
  success.

       They are willing to sell at their cost [maybe even give
  some of] the software and hardware to the NRA to upgrade the BBS
  if there is a need.  It is our job as users and members of this
  new BBS to decide if there is a need.  And if there is, to get
  the changes made.

       Moreover the folks at Mustang are willing to turn their
  team of technicians over to the job of getting it [the new
  software/hardware] up, running and fine tuned!  And keeping it
  that way.

       So, if it turns out that our new BBS is less than optimal
  for supporting all the needs [legislative, information,
  politics, files, mail, conferences] of a national audience --
  there is a group of professionals waiting in the wings willing
  to do their part in seeing that we have the best there is.

       [end of editorial]

       TTFN -- Charlie
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