Marc_North@mindlink.UUCP (Marc North) (03/07/91)
THIS MESSAGE IS TO EVERYONE WHO CALLS BBS's.
I am forming a global list of BBS's. All computer types, all countries,
EVERYTHING.
Please e-mail your list of BBS's that you call. All I ask is that you
be reasonably sure that the ones you list are still active. Where possible
include modem speed range, city, state/province, country, and of course the
BBS's name and phone number (WITH area code!)
I am doing this as a project, and any final list will be available via
FTP in the near future.
Reach DEEP into the BBS well, pull out the obscure, the strange, the
oddballs as well as the slick mainstream ones. Don't worry about being
repetitive, I'll weed out the duplicate submissions. Please be accurate.
Thank you very much,
Marc North
(Marc_North@mindlink.uucp)
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*********************************************************************** depeche@cs.mcgill.ca (Acme Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit) (03/09/91)
In article <5023@mindlink.UUCP> Marc_North@mindlink.UUCP (Marc North) writes: > > THIS MESSAGE IS TO EVERYONE WHO CALLS BBS's. > > I am forming a global list of BBS's. All computer types, all countries, >EVERYTHING. good luck. > I am doing this as a project, and any final list will be available via >FTP in the near future. final list? jeez you must be new around here. In 1983 I started publishing a MONTHLY newsletter that kept a very up-to-date list of every local BBS I could find in the Boston area. This was a job that was big enough for me, but there were lots of mistakes in info people supplied me, and BBSs would go up and down every two weeks. I did this for 3 years, and in 1987 the job was too big for one person! How do you expect to VERIFY the information? I hope you don't plan to just publish it without verifying it... What if it is a residence number? And if it's global and you plan to verify each number, your phone bill will exceed the Canadian national debt quite shortly. > Reach DEEP into the BBS well, pull out the obscure, the strange, the >oddballs as well as the slick mainstream ones. Don't worry about being >repetitive, I'll weed out the duplicate submissions. Please be accurate. ya, right... once again, I wish you good luck. -- |S. Alan Ezust : McGill University School of Computer Science | |depeche@cs.mcgill.ca : Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|