Dave.Tanner@p0.f210.n273.z1.fidonet.org (Dave Tanner) (10/02/90)
Index Number: 10715
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
In the September issue of the Artic Newsletter Artic Technologies
has asked for input as to whether they should start up their BBS
again. I know this has been discussed here before, so here is your
chance to have some input with your comments.
Hay Willie how about an ARTIC BBS! message series to semnd them.
Think it might be worth considering? Maybe we could even convince
them to be a FIDO NET board and carry Blinktalk.
D. T.
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Internet: Dave.Tanner@p0.f210.n273.z1.fidonet.orgWilliam.Wilson@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson) (10/02/90)
Index Number: 10722
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
DT> comments. Hay Willie how about an ARTIC BBS! message series to
DT> semnd them. Think it might be worth considering? Maybe we
DT> could even convince them to be a FIDO NET board and carry
DT> Blinktalk. D. T.
David,
To tell the truth, I feel a little smug about this one! I mean, at
least so far as I am concerned, the Artic people should be asking us if
they could become a FidoNet board and handle BlinkTalk, not vice-versa!
They will have, after all, nothing but a second-rate operation without
doing so!
Then again, despite the fact that we have many Artic users here, I
don't think they will be ever be showered with meaningless complimentary
messages from the participants here, and maybe that is what they want!
Let's face it....BlinkTalk is the home of the Power Speech User, and the
more we are heard, the more is going to be expected out of the speech
producers!
Ok David, start collecting the messages, cause this one is yours,
but perhaps you better not start with this one!
Willie
... Like a bat out of Bellevue!
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Internet: William.Wilson@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.orgMarda.Anderson@f9.n393.z1.fidonet.org (Marda Anderson) (10/02/90)
Index Number: 10739
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
I too miss the artic bbs. I had just started to get into it when it went
down. I think it has great potential for being a means of support and
information exchange between us artic users and with the artic staff. I
would hope that if they put it back up they would try to remedy some of
the problems they had in the past. For instance, it took me over two
months to get validated. I think that is a big unreasonable. Even so,
it was better than nothing. I would also like to see a little quicker
turnaround when we left messages to the artic staff. Well, that's my
wish list but even if it still had problems, I hated to see the boardd go
down and would patronize it if it were to come back up.
marda
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Internet: Marda.Anderson@f9.n393.z1.fidonet.orgcampbell%hpdmd48@hplabs.HP.COM (Gary Campbell) (10/04/90)
Index Number: 10873 I've been planning to write Artic for a few weeks, and like a lot of letters I'm planning to write-- well, I'd better do it here or it may never get done! First, I like the idea of a support BBS. It's been a long time since I've used the Artic board, so I don't remember specifics, but in short, if they're going to have a board, it ought to work. There were some areas-- new products, I think, where there were some items that showed up in the listing but wouldn't list anything. I don't remember the details, but I wasn't the only one to notice it. I don't think that Artic needs to moderate conferences (they said something about getting guest moderators), but they need to either answer all messages sent to them in the public message areas, or state clearly what you need to do to send a message so that they will see it. I left some messages in public areas asking about things that Artic Vision would or wouldn't work with which they never answered. I don't remember, but I think I sent them to Artic rather than "all", but in the public areas so that anyone else could answer too. I never got a response from them. I appreciate the desire to make their board easy to use with speech, but I don't think that regular BBS software is that difficult to use. I would rather see the login sequence use a name like other boards, or maybe the AV serial number, rather than a special user number. I would like to see a system for off-line message reading, like the Mark Mail door which works with ez-rdr like on our local BBS running PCBoard. I would like to move to a more automated message processing mode, especially for long distance boards, and would therefore like to find out which areas have messages I haven't read, or be sequenced through selected areas with new messages so that I could write a terminal program script to get my messages. The Mark Mail door does this and compresses the messages to boot. Then ez-rdr lets me read and reply to them off line so I don't have to run up a phone bill reading, and lets someone else use the board. I doubt I will be very active on the board -- I'm hard pressed to decide whether or not I can aford the time to follow a couple of conferences on our local board. However, it is a nice way to get help when I have a problem. I think that carrying a national conference like Blinktalk could also be a valuable service unless people have cheaper access through other boards. Well there-- finally-- I think that's it, at least all I can remember right now. Now, I wonder if they've got my system fixed so I'll have to go back to work :-). -- Gary Campbell