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Callers Digest \ I May 1992 us $3.50 r r ~ :~~lRE~IN Canada $5.00 J 74470·78651 J SYSTEMS MAGAZINE r r )"- CALLERS DIGEST \ I Bulk Rate u.s. Postage PAID South Jersey, NJ Penn it #326 0 74 4 7078651, Your Online Resour,e ® Chann of a kincl Nearly 2,000,000 calls since 1987. Come join us! • 60,000 up-to-date archives for IBM, Amigo, Mac, Unix • Business, professional, educational, recreational, specialty file libraries • Download within 5 seconds of connect • Pictures and sound file libraries • Fast, responsive online environment with ANSI color and sound • E-Mail and Mailbox services • Worldwide Internet access • PC Echo Net Mail links to over 1000 bbs • 2,000 conferences on a wide variety of topics • 60 online interactive games • Microbytes, daily industry news briefs • Online shopping for modems, PCs and peripherals • Custom file orders on disk and tape by mail "Channel 1 gets the most and the best daily uploads of any system in the U.S." -John Dvorak, Dvorak's Guide 10 PC Telecommunicalions " ".you will get more on Channell for every onl ine dollar you spend than you will any place else. Do yourself a favor and check it ouL " - Mike Callagha n, Dr. file finder's Guide la Shareware To connect, set your modem to 8-N-l and dial: 617-354-8873 2400 617-354-3137 HST 617-354-3230 Y.32bis 8 Gigs / PC Pursuit / Connect-USA / Com puc om / Telebit / PO Box 338, Cambridge MA 02238 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Volume 3, Number 5 May 1992 CALLERS DIGEST FEATURES Publisher/Advertising Director Richard Paquette ATTRACTING CALLERS TO YOUR BBS . .... .. .. ... 4 Associate Publisher/Editor John Carcione DEVELOPING A COMMERCIAL PROGRAM ......... 28 Design and Illustration Terry Wilson Art Director COLUMNS Jeanne Lorenzo Subscription Manager Joyce Harrington JUST DON'T CALL IT A COMPUTER! ... .. ... ....... 8 Printing 9600 Baud Street by Alan Bechtold CEI Printing Co. Newsstand Consultant A LITTLE RESPECT, PLEASE ............... ......... 10 William A. Townsend Amigo Callers by Kelly Wright BNL Distribution Services, Inc. 100A Centre Blvd . Marlton, NJ 08053 COPYRIGHT AND YOUR BBS MESSAGES . .. ... 15 Tel: 1-609-985-8550 BBS Barrister's Corner by Charles S. Kramer, Esq. Fulfillment Operations Starr Fulfillment Corp. THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION ...... .. ...... 20 900 Haddon Ave., Ste 326 Oracomm by Gary Young Collingswood, NJ 08108 Joseph Starr, President AUBURNDALE, WI; PAPILLION, NE; 1-609-858-4411 CHATHAM, NJ ....... .. .. ...... ....... 22 Editorial and Advenising - We can be contacted BBS Notebook by Patrick Grote online at "The Livewire BBS," which is the support BBS, set modem at 8,N, I and call 1·609-235-5297. Voice Office number is: 1-609-953-9110; Fax is: 1-609- EXPRESS YOURSELF WITH TAG LINES ..... ... ....... 26 953-7961; hardcopy mailing address is: Callers BBSing Made Easy!!! by Philip BaUey Digest Inc, 701 Stokes Rd, Medford, NJ 08055. Subscriptions USA CANADA ANECDOTES & ACRONYMS . ............. ... ..... 30 I Yr. (12 issues) $25.00 $45.00 The Lighter Side of Computing 2 Yrs.(24 issues) $45.00 $85.00 by Carol Carmichael and Ed Lazarowitz 3 Yrs.(36 issues) $60.00 $IW.OO Call our order HOTLINE at 1-800-822-0437 8AM- 4PM EST, Mon·Fri, and charge your subscription to DELUXP & ROBOCOMM: GREAT TOGETHER . .... 32 your Visa or MasterCard, or send check, money order PCBoard by Richard Kozik payable to Callers Digest, Inc. All material is copyrighted 1990/91/92 by Callers TEN YEARS AT THE PC ....... ..................... 38 Digest, Inc., all rights reserved. Material in this pub­ Lana's Corner by Lana Fox lication MAY NOT be reproduced in any form with­ out written permission from the publisher of BBS Callers Digest. BBS Callers Digest (ISSN #1055-2812) is published ET CETERA ... monthly by Callers Digest, Inc., 701 Stokes Rd., Medford, NJ 08055. BBS Callers Digest is not responsible for the opinions expressed by contributors. Questions and co=ents are welcomed. Unless oth­ erwise instructed, we assume aU rights to letters, arti­ NEWSLINE .. .. ............ .... .. .......... .... 2 cles, or other communications sent to BBS Callers Digest as unconditionally assigned for publication. BBSCD BBS LIST . .. 37 Material not accompanied by a stamped, self­ addressed envelope will not be returned. Uploads are accepted only in ZIP format at "The Livewire BBS." CLASSIFIEDS ...................................... 40 POSTMASTER: Please send aU change of address to: BBS Callers Digest, 701 Stokes Rd., Medford, NT 08055. COVER: Illustration by Terry Wilson MAY 1992 • 1 112 Nodes NEWS :LINE new ownership sometime soon. PARAGON CANCELS Again I want to thank you and ACCU*LlNK SERVICE. your staff for the excellent article and review of the service and apologize for any inconvenience this has caused Mr. Richard Paquette, Publisher you or your readers. Rusty Edie BBS Callers Digest Sincerely, Terry Rossi, Director 701 Stokes Road Call a different kind of BBS, "We Medford, NJ 08055 are the Friendliest BBS in the World" Our name says it all. Edie and I are Dear Richard: GALACTICOMM a couple of burn outs from the Thank you for your very flatter­ REVOLUTIONIZES 60's. We didn't like rules then and ing review of Paragon Communica­ we don't now. Come on in and tions, Accu "Link service in the April PAYMENT OPTIONS FOR relax you will be among friends. 1992 issue. It was a true pleasure ONLINE TIME: 976-BBS We have a huge adult section, working with BBS Callers Digest on OFFERS CALLERS including over three gigabytes of the interview about the service. CONVENIENT PAYMENT adult graphics, as well as a fine It is with great regret that I must seledion of public domain and inform you that Paragon Communi­ METHOD FOR BBS USE shareware programs, includ­ cations has cancelled the Accu "Link Fort Lauderdale, FL - Galacti­ ing over a gigabyte of family type service. Unexpected changes in the comm, Inc., the leading manufactur­ graphics. But that's not what sets ownership of the Corporation has er of multi-user electronic bulletin us apart. When you call the first caused this. Paragon Communica­ board system software and hard­ time, you'll know what no amount tions is actively seeking a buyer for ware, has just introduced 976-BBS, a of words can tell you, you are the Accu"Link service, so hopefully it software/hardware package that inter­ home. That's right, put up your will be back on the market, under faces with a "976_" or "1-900-" num­ feet and enjoy yourself. ber to allow purchase of BBS connect We live by the three no's: "No time. System operators (sysops) of Censorship, No Rules, No The Major BBS, Galacticomm's pre­ Hass le" JABBER miere BBS product, can now offer their users an easy, convenient way to You'll find us like no other BBS : Q W K pay for online time. • We answer your messages Callers dial the 976- telephone and comments READER number and listen to a voice-synthe­ • We answer your on line sized message which issues a unique pages Small Fast Powerful redemption code. The user then dials • We post our address Offline Mail Reading into the BBS and enters the code, which causes the system to post cred­ • We post our voice phone Features inc 1ude: Message sorting, text number searc hing, tag1ine stealing, packet its to that user's account. storage system, DesqView aware, unique user interface, handles large packets 976-BBS is the first package of and messages, 8/7 bit suppo rt, and much Rusty n Edie's BBS morel its kind which integrates the "976_" 1480 Fredricksburg Drive An AUTHOR supported shareware program. technology with BBS accounting Youngstown, OH 44512 Before you do anything methods. "976-BBS opens a new door Voice ......... ..... 216-758-8342 SILLY try JABBER! to callers in terms of payment Fax .......... .. ..... 216-726-3595 CALL BABBLE UNDERGROUND options," says Galacticomm presi­ (707) 538-1507 HST/V_32 2400 baud ..... ..... 216-726-2620 FOR THE LASTEST VERSION dent, Tim Stryker. "No longer will a HST 14.4K / V32bis ... 216-726-3589 credit card or a pre-paid check be nec­ Hayes V-Series .. .. 216-726-3619 10% OFF IF YOU MENTION essary to receive online time. Until Compucon .... ..... 216-726-3620 THIS AD! Continued on page 43 2 • BBS CALLERS DIGEST Canada Remote Systems is pleased to announce the commence­ ment of access through Detroit! US callers can now get access to one of North America's finest BBS's! Use your modem (8N1/ 1200-14400 baud) to call (416) 798-4713 now for your free, full­ featured 30 minute demonstration of the many benefits of Canada Remote Systems! Then call us at (313) 963-0663 or (800) 465- 7562 to join! For only $99/year you get: • Over 300,000 files on-line!, with • "Live" newsfeed from UP/! an on-I i ne storage capacity of • CD-ROM reference over 19 Gb! (yes that's 19,000 material, i ncl ud i ng; Grolier's megabytes of storage!) Encyclopedia, On-Line Hotline News, • 143 incoming lines! Microsoft Reference Library, and • Over 2,500 Conferences or Computer Select - with more to come! Forums for different topics, • Daily stock market results from through 10 major international seven major exchanges! e-mail networks • Large Adult file area (2,600 Mb!) • Full USENETaccessfor • 2 hours/day access, 2Mb download/day! "newsgroups" and private e-mail • Never anyon-line charges! • On-line magazines including Toronto Computes!, Microbytes, Newsbytes, CANADA and Boardwatch Magazine REMOTE • FREE Hotline Technical Support SYSTEMS • We support IBM, Macintosh, Amiga, C=ll Atari, Apple II, C64/128, CP/M, and 1331 Crestlawn Drive, Unit 'D' Mississauga, Ontario, L4W 2P9 NeXT! Phone: (313) 963-0663 or (800) 465-7562 • On-line gaming and CHATs AI I RACTING CALLERS TO YOUR BBS What does it take to run a BBS so dynamic, callers will pay for a phone call to access it? Paul Waldinger, age 41, had a very to SOM.
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