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From: schwartz@augsburg.edu (Bill Schwartz)
Subject: Re: bbs adresses needed
Organization: 3M
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 17:32:30 GMT


nic.augsburg.edu
login: bbs

seabass.st.usm.edu
login: bbs

bbs.isca.uiowa.edu

In article <1992Nov9.094411.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, stancad@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
> 
> Can anyone suggest some good bbs adresses on Internet? Thanx in advance...
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> ----------------
> | Life sucks!  |
> | Life is short|
> | Enjoy!!!     |
> _______________
> 
> 
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: nanook@eskimo.celestial.com (Robert Dinse)
Subject: Re: Bad service BBS's
Summary: Censorship
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:52:46 GMT

In article <gZRZTB3w165w@pinetree.org>, gordon@pinetree.org (Gordon Dewis) writes:
> Just because a site chooses not to carry certain groups, for whatever 
> reason, does not necessarily mean they censor news.  There may be 
> political reasons why some groups are not carried, or there may be 
> resource reasons.

     Gordon, your point is well taken.  Censorship perhaps isn't the correct
term because it also implies that material is reviewed and "objectional"
material deleted.

     So to call it "censorship" is to second-guess Ed Morin's at Nw-Nexus and
Ralph Simms motives, and I really don't pretend to know what their motives are
for not carrying those groups, perhaps it is a resource issue as you suggest.

     And I've also got to say that I don't know what they do and don't carry
first-hand, I am depending upon information I've gotten from third parties
because Ralph won't let me login to his system as me and I'm not going to
invent a fake identity to gain access.

     But I will say it's Eskimo North's policy to carry all news groups that I
can get my hands on, and I think I've done a pretty fair job of getting my
hands on a pretty wide variety, and that the only time I'll censor is when it
is legally necessary, ie, someone posts someone's visa number, etc.

     Our rates are less than halve theirs, and while Ralph does point out that
I don't have a 56k link, I think it's worth pointing out that that 56k link
that Halcion does have is also shared by a number of other customers so he
doesn't have full use of all of that bandwidth either.

     I would like people to take advantage of the trial account here and of
whatever trial account that Ralph may offer and make a decision based on the
whole service.  I don't know what all Halcion does offer these days but I
suspect it's not identicle to what we offer, some folks might find unique
things on both systems that are worthwhile.  I do know we're less than half
the price.
From: David Katz <agaccess@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:45 PST
Subject: Re: FidoNet Nodelistt
Nf-ID: #R:9406.281E36D7@stjhmc.fidonet.org:-1921126668:cdp:1297400068:000:157
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!agaccess    Nov 12 21:45:00 1992


So, how do I find out how to dial a fido bbs in my area?
Where can I get modem phone numbers? 

agaccess@igc.apc.org
(916) 756-7177 voice
(916) 756-7188 fax

Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: nickolov@fraser.sfu.ca (Radoslav Nickolov)
Subject: test -- please ignore
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:18:44 GMT

Ignore this test.


Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: duxbury@fraser.sfu.ca (Nancy Ann Duxbury)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Source Code for BBS for Mac
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:41:29 GMT

In article <sh.chen.42.721245621@fs3.mbs.ac.uk> sh.chen@fs3.mbs.ac.uk (Sherman Chen) writes:
>I am attempting to write a BBS Program for Mac, but wonder if anyone have 
>BBS source code for the Mac which I can use as a guide as to how to write 
>one.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Sherman Chen
>email:sh.chen@fs3.mbs.ac.uk
>      sh.chen%uk.ac.mbs.fs3@cns.umist.ac.uk

 The MUBBS BBS is a freeware program for the Mac that includes source
code (or at least has it readily available). Other than an easily
correctible security problem, it is quite a flexible and reliable BBS
program. Check out version 1.1 at archive.umich.edu.

 I have no connection with the authors of MUBBS, other than that of a
satisfied user.

						-Bill Currie
						 duxbury@sfu.ca
						 (Nancy's fiance)







Newsgroups: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.allsysop
From: josh@the-tech.mit.edu (Josh Hartmann)
Subject: Help with Hermes
Followup-To: sender
Organization: The Tech -- MIT's Oldest and Largest Newspaper
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:57:38 GMT

Help.

In Hermes 1.8, how do you set the modem parameters such as bits,
parity, etc. I can't seem to find them.

Please reply by private e-mail since I need to know as soon as
possible.

Thanks,

-Josh Hartmann
josh@the-tech.mit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: delisle@eskimo.celestial.com (Ben Delisle)
Subject: Re: Bad service BBS's
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:36:51 GMT

 In reguards to 1992Nov3.062032.23278@u.washington.edu
	This is interesting because I am a paying user and have 
been on the system for over 18 months and have had few problems
with Eskimo North. They do post their voice phone number in the
login for problems and I have called it and gotten quick responce. The sysop
useally resopnds to my E-mail preatty quickly if he is online at that time
or as soon as he gets it.
    
	On occasion they have had busy busy lines but
I beleive that can be expected from any system from time to time.
What exactly are you trying to explain here? I called the sysadmin
on this bucause I would only would want to refer friends to the 
service if they were to get good service and value; and he told 
me that he had not received any calls or e-mail
about this. Somehow I find ``over 75 calls in order to connect'' 
hard to beleive, I can useally connect on the first attempt, If I 
do get an incompatable modem to mine, or a munged port 
they do have 13 other lines I could use, those numbers are given 
to the users.

	They do have a full Usenet News feed, Unix shell, online 
games, conference, Telnet and FTP, and I have had little troubble 
with it. The Telnet and FTP Internet functions are new and we users 
are told this and that they are still being tuned and may have bugs 
from time to time.

--
delisle@eskimo.celestial.com |
From: grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.allsysop
Subject: Re: FTP site for Maximus 2.01wb
Date: 12 Nov 92 18:00:23 GMT
Organization: Seattle University

In article <Z2T3TB1w165w@street.pinetree.org> tony@street.pinetree.org writes:
>
>I cannot help as to where to find it, but you should be looking for MAX201b.* 
>(Where * is usually LZH in a DOS enviroment.)
>
>TTFN
>
>Tony


Thanks for the info, however, I've gotten hold of a copy from a local
Maximus sysop here in Seattle.  I'm not sure if all those people who
responded already had a copy of it but I know of one who did but wasn't
gracious enough to give me a copy.  In the README file of the
distribution, it did say that "[i]t _IS_ permissable to pass this file
[max distribution files] around privately to others" but I guess those
that had it and knew that somebody else was looking for a copy were
feeling toooo privileged and would not dare share it with others.  I know
I'm not like that because I offered a copy to an individual who responded
to my post and who I thought also did not have a copy but wanted one. 
Apparenlty, he had one already.  Is there such a thing as Maximus snoots? 
Well, if you went through what I did then you'll probably say yes.  Boy, I
guess there really is no such thing as a free lunch. 


George
From: tony@street.pinetree.org
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.allsysop
Subject: Re: FTP site for Maximus 2.01wb
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 08:30:46 EST
Organization: The STREET Bbs ! Ottawa, Ontario. Canada ! +1-613-523-9816

grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba) writes:

> I've gone through all the archie sites and tried to do a search for the
> above release but came out empty handed.  Does anyone know where I can
> get a copy (FTP site preferred) or maybe the distribution filename(s). 
> Maybe I'm searching for the wrong filename in archie.  Thanks.
> 

I cannot help as to where to find it, but you should be looking for MAX201b.* 
(Where * is usually LZH in a DOS enviroment.)

TTFN



Tony
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From: grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.allsysop
Subject: FTP site for Maximus 2.01wb
Date: 10 Nov 92 06:01:09 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA

I've gone through all the archie sites and tried to do a search for the
above release but came out empty handed.  Does anyone know where I can
get a copy (FTP site preferred) or maybe the distribution filename(s). 
Maybe I'm searching for the wrong filename in archie.  Thanks.


George

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From: ibacon@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Ian Bacon)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.allsysop
Subject: BBS software ?
Date: 6 Nov 92 01:35:59 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: uniwa.uwa.edu.au
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I am thinking of setting up a BBS in Australia. I need to learn more
about BBS software. Can anyone point me to a source (net or publication)
that will tell me about BBS software, pros / cons, costs etc..

Thanks
From: bjkramer@remus.rutgers.edu (Brian Kramer)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.allsysop
Subject: Wildcat FTP sites
Date: 10 Nov 92 14:46:41 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Does anyone have a list of the Wildcat FTP sites?
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.allsysop
From: bentley@hellgate.utah.edu (Adam Bentley)
Subject: Re: BBS software ?
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 03:22:32 GMT

	I got a version of Telegard from ftp to wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
/mirrors/msdos/telegard directory.  I like it alot.  The only touchy part is
the initial connection, seems with my Boca modem, and Opuscom1 (a fossil) 
don't get along or somehow don't tell telegard that the caller is connected.
I may try bnu to see if it is the fossil, but I think it might also be a 
bogus initialization string I am using.  Anybody willing to share their 
init strings for a Boca?

	Thanks
	ADAM

Newsgroups: alt.bbs.allsysop
From: Florian.Schnabel@bbs.gold.sub.org (Florian Schnabel)
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 11:42:41 GMT
Organization: Unix Mailbox Baldham
Subject: email to ATD
Distribution: world
Reply-To: Florian.Schnabel@bbs.gold.sub.org (Florian Schnabel)
X-Posting-Software: UniBoard 1.10b S/N 165921

Can anyone tell me an email address for the Australian Taxation
Department in Sydney or Canberra...?
Thanks in advance.
From: sh.chen@fs3.mbs.ac.uk (Sherman Chen)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: WANTED: Source Code for BBS for Mac
Date: 8 Nov 92 18:00:21 GMT
Organization: Manchester Business School

I am attempting to write a BBS Program for Mac, but wonder if anyone have 
BBS source code for the Mac which I can use as a guide as to how to write 
one.

Thanks in advance.

Sherman Chen
email:sh.chen@fs3.mbs.ac.uk
      sh.chen%uk.ac.mbs.fs3@cns.umist.ac.uk
Xref: sparky alt.bbs:6949 alt.bbs.allsysop:784
From: paul@hsh.com
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.allsysop
Subject: BBS Seized for Distributing Commercial Software
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:48:14 GMT
Organization: HSH Associates


   Received from Nintendo of America Inc on 11/6.  Heaven knows why, 
   since I've never been on their mailing list before.  Portions posted 
   for general info, without comment. 


For Immediate Release
Contact: Lynn Hvalsoe\Nintendo 206-861-2096
         James Biloff/Arter & Hadden 202-775-7100

NINTENDO JOINS IN SEIZURE AGAINST ILLEGAL BULLETIN BOARD SOFTWARE

Redmond, WA -- As part of a continuing and aggressive effort to halt 
counterfeiting of video games and business software, Nintendo of America Inc. 
and six major software manufacturers filed an action against distributors of a 
computer "bulletin board" network system giving software access to users.

Illegal software was seized from authorities from APL, an electronic bulletin 
board computer system (BBS) headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

The legal action outlines that illegal software was accessed through operators 
who provide personal computer users a code to enter the system... Illegal 
bulletin boards have become a popular trend, with an estimated 5,000 systems in 
the United States.  Illegal BBSs have also been found in Europe and Asia.

This case represents the first time video game and business software companies 
have joined together to fight software pirating.  The business software 
companies, represented in this case through the Business Software Association 
(BSA), include Aldus, Autodesk, Lotus Development, Microsoft, Novel [sic] and 
WordPerfect.  All companies, including Nintendo, are individual plaintiffs in 
the legal action.

The action is part of Nintendo's large anti-counterfeiting campaign, much of 
which is aimed at illegal video games being manufactured, sold and shipped from 
Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other countries.

...the signing of Federal legislation (S893) elevates copyright infringement, 
such as that engaged in by BBS operators, to a felony with penalties of up to 
$250,000 and up to five years in prison.

------

 Paul Havemann, VP          HSH Associates            (201) 838-3330 
 Internet: paul@hsh.com     Compuserve: 70410,3507    AOL: HSH Assoc
 "Any opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the company."
From: p.foster@fs3.mbs.ac.uk (Peter Foster)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Internet BBS's
Summary: Internet BBS's???
Keywords: BBS Internet
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:14:15 GMT
Organization: Manchester Business School

Hello all

I don't know whether this is the right area to post this message but here 
goes.

I am trying to find a comprhensive list of BBS's that are available through 
Internet - I am using Telnet as a comms package. Could anyone who knows of 
any good BBS's on the Internet service please send me the address, details 
etc.

Many thanks

Peter Foster

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From: mxl6@po.CWRU.Edu (Michael Lederman)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: COMPUSERVE ACCESS
Date: 5 Nov 1992 15:15:26 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mxl6@po.CWRU.Edu (Michael Lederman)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



I have a friend in Alpena, Michigan (area code 517) with whom I desperately
need to communicate via email.  There are no bbs's within a local calling
area that can send email to internet.  Even the access for compuserve is
LD.  Isn't there at least an 800 compuserve # so that she can send me
email?  If not, know of any FIDO or UUCP or other such bbs's in the area
that can send email to internet?  VERY IMPORTANT.

Please reply via direct email if possible as I don't get to read usenet too
often.

Thank for very much.
From: burch@rhps.chi.il.us (Lee Burch)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Door Interface for C++
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 02:53:22 CST
Organization: CrissySoft Incorporated

nbb3647@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:

> My roommates and I are planning on writing a door in the near future.  None o
> us know anything about COM routines, and aren't interested in getting into
> them.  Which of the various door routine packages do you recommend?  Why? 
> We'll be writing in Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 (on a 486-33 w/USR 16.8 DS).  
> 
> 					Noah Bast, sysop
> 					The Vanishing Point
> 					(716)889-3353  1:260/289

   not really a door kit, but a good set of comm routines (with
zmodem) is the mcomm libaries. avalible as shareware from the
common sources. it costs $50 to register and get libaries for all
memory models and $25 more will get you the source as well.  I
have used these routines, they are the best around at any price.
libaries for C and C++ are included.

-- Lee Burch
From: nbb3647@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Door Interface for C++
Date: 7 Nov 92 00:28:23 GMT
Reply-To: nbb3647@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

My roommates and I are planning on writing a door in the near future.  None of
us know anything about COM routines, and aren't interested in getting into
them.  Which of the various door routine packages do you recommend?  Why? 
We'll be writing in Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 (on a 486-33 w/USR 16.8 DS).  

					Noah Bast, sysop
					The Vanishing Point
					(716)889-3353  1:260/289
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.allsysop,alt.bbs.uupcb,comp.bbs.misc,us.legal
From: gordon@pinetree.org (Gordon Dewis)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Bad service BBS's
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 17:53:15 EDT
Organization: Gordon's Pinetree * Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

nanook@eskimo.celestial.com (Robert Dinse) writes:

> In article <1992Nov6.214409.10013@nwnexus.WA.COM>, ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph 
> > nanook@eskimo.celestial.com (Robert Dinse) writes:
> > 
> > >     Of coarse you'll be missing a few news groups for your additional $10
> > >since Halcion sees it as their public duty to censor what you read.
> > 
> > This is an unmitigated, bald-faced lie.  Since you do not have an account
> > on this system, you TRULY have no idea how things are put together.  We
> > CENSOR NO GROUPS!!!  All mainstream newsgroups are available on local
> > drives, coming in via NNTP over a 56kBaud direct link to the Internet.
> > We mount those drives via NFS from another site on our ethernet.  This
> > site chooses not to carry certain alt newsgroups--that's their choice.
> 
>      Yes, it's Northwest Nexus's choice not to carry certain news groups, and
> it's your choice to get your feed from them, rather than get a full-feed
> elsewhere.
> 
>      I hope that users will bother to look for the groups I mentioned on your
> system and see just how much of a lie it is, because they will find them
> missing.  But they won't find them missing from Eskimo North, which doesn't
> choose to get it's news from a site that censors what it carries.
> 

Just because a site chooses not to carry certain groups, for whatever 
reason, does not necessarily mean they censor news.  There may be 
political reasons why some groups are not carried, or there may be 
resource reasons.

Pinetree.org has access to a complete newsfeed, but we choose not to 
carry binaries.  By your logic, we are censoring the binary groups.  This 
is not the case.  We do not have the resources to carry the binaries due 
to sheer volume.

As well, my system (pinetree) only offers a select number of groups to 
users because of disk space.  I don't consider myself a censor because I 
choose not to carry the alt.sex hierarchy (for example) because of the 
volume.

I side with Ralph in this case and would suggest that you mind your own 
bloody business.

  --G

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From: Mark@cocotel.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: BBS for DOS w/USENET support
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 22:49:15 CST

Re: Re: BBS for DOS w/USENET support
By: xyzzy #0 @mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) USEnet      
 
>  Is there _ANY_ BBS programs out there that are for DOS AND support Usenet 
>  mail / newsgroups (besides Waffle 1.65)...  If not, why?  It's extremely 
>  popular and Waffle 1.65 is extremely weak and too fragmented...

    I'm posting this under VBBS using the Waffle utility programs and an
interface. At the current time news groups and mail are available...and you
don't have to deal with Waffle after you set it up. <However, we're still
kind of beta testing at the moment>.  As far as support goes, we're pretty
happy with it <we've had 4 updates since March of this year...with another
major release due out next month>.  
                                                  Mark Sapp

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From: hho@phakt.usc.edu (** N.T.K.C.D. ***)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Free Internet/Usenet Access
Date: 9 Nov 1992 22:14:40 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

In article <BxCxH9.8v@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>djk@bby.com.au (David James Keegel) writes:
>but there are ways around that.  For example, your site could set up
>a MX with another site (anywhere in the world) who sets up a pointer
>via uucp connections to your machine.  This works very well if the
>uucp path is reliable.

Isn't it is a requirement that the MX site must be directly
on Internet? :-))

Thanks
H.
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Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: grant@bluemoon.rn.com (Grant DeLorean)
Subject: Re: FIDO CONNECTIONS
Organization: Blue Moon
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 16:54:41 GMT

Robert.Presland@f101.n101.z101.fidonet.org (Robert Presland) writes:

> > From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)

> > neta@iat.holonet.net (Gregory Giagnocavo) writes:

> >>To get connected  to FidoNEt, you shoulld go through a fido board that is

> > Get connected to FidoNet to use internet email?

> > Sounds rather backwards to me.

>Well, I'm from Fido first and foremost, but I enjoy most of what Internet has
>to offer (I have all but ftp access from work).  I just recently added news to
>my fido-style BBS and find that many users find it enjoyable, but on to the
>point...

>As someone else has pointed out, Internet access is offer costly and
>restricted.  Fido is free.

 For what it is worth, FidoNet is now (has been for a couple of years) an
Internet domain. Another FWIW, InterNet access can be had very cheaply.

-- 
\   Grant DeLorean  - IHMSA & NRA Life Member -  (grant@bluemoon.use.com)   /

        Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Newsgroups: alt.bbs