nraoaoc@nmt.edu (Daniel Briggs) (03/16/91)
From: MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD, in the March 1991 _Skydiving_ "Skydivers with a computer modem can now link up with a new skydiving bulletin board service. New York jumper Scott Keeler started the service last year and is anxious to hear from other jumpers. Membership is free. Keeler's telephone is (716) 695-6827; the BBS number is (716) 695-9613. Hmmmm. I just took a look at this thing, and it looks much like your average PCBoard, with a small skydiving conference. (There's a fairly off-the-wall initial questionnaire, but I can live with that.) So far, the skydivers seem mostly confined to the NY area. With the publicity the BBS just got in _Skydiving_ and _Parachutist_, I expect that the user base may grow quickly. I don't think it's likely to be worth my long distance calls to NY, but I'm all for encouraging connectivity between members of our small community. Anyone local to New York want to see about getting this board gatewayed into rec.skydiving? Does anyone with BBS smarts know if it's possible to link a PCBoard into the FIDO network for the purposes of a gateway? That would be an easy way of tying this guy in, if it could me made to work. On a side note, anyone know what the story was behind Steve Nagy's tirade in the letters column of the the same issue? He's all bent out of shape that _Skydiving_ used a BASE jumping photo as the banner photo for the second section of the February issue. I mean, I know that not everyone likes BASE jumping, or even approves of it, but I couldn't believe the vehemence of this guy's letter over running a lousy photo and a couple of letters. It's like he's not saying what he's really mad at. -- This is a shared guest account, please send replies to dbriggs@nrao.edu (Internet) ["Life's a Beech, and then you Dive."] Dan Briggs / NRAO / P.O. Box O / Socorro, NM / 87801 (U.S. Snail)