From jim.mcnelly@gcbb.granite.mn.org Mon Apr 18 08:26:22 1994 Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 00:49:00 +0600 From: Jim Mcnelly To: LONDON@SUNSITE.UNC.EDU Subject: CYBER SPACE BBS Subject: CYBER SPACE BBS This message was originally addressed to Leo Elliott [76440.1416@COMPUSERVE.COM] and a carbon copy was sent to you. ---------------------------------------- I thought I'd let you know of some of the new developments here in Saint Cloud. The world of BBSing is taking a quantum leap forward. Local BBSs may just give the cable companies a run for their money on the new highway with no limits. This message was originally in conference Main Board on GRANITE (Granite City BBS) and was forwarded to you by JIM MCNELLY ---------------------------------------- BUCKLE UP AND HANG ON FOR YOUR RIDE INTO "CYBER SPACE" We (Rusty and Christine), have some exciting news for you. We hope that you will bear with us. This is going to be a long explanation. First, the OUTPOST! and GRANITE CITY INFORMATION SERVICE are now joined together as ONE BBS. We have decide to call this new "venture" CYBER SPACE Both of us are very very excited about the possibilities that this joining will provide to St. Cloud (and the rest of Minnesota). First off, NO ONE will loose anything at all with this joining. Everyone will be gaining a LOT. So, for those of you who called to GCB a short explanation. We will be running PCBoard as a door to the Major BBS, so that those of you using qmail or cam-mail or pcboards .qwk feature will still have it available. We may also keep ONE (1) node setup (656-0678?) as a dialin for mail only. All the files on GCB will be moved to Cyber Space. All that will be left on GCB will be mail (all 3,500 conferences). I plan to write a Robo script and 1stReader script to log in and open the pcboard door, then log you into pcboard and get your mail (so that nothing will change). I do not have the ability to write scripts for QModem so, someone else will need to to that. You (as former PCBoard users), will now have access to all the cdroms (18) available on Cyber Space. You will also have access to the forums (MajorNet) conferences. Of course, you will have access to all the online gaming and other goodies (like tradewars,mutants, fazuul, androids, super lotto, super nova, hangman and all the other interactive games). Your account on GCB will stay active as is BUT you will also have your "time left" converted over to Cyber Space's accounting methods (credits). We will take your time left, what you paid and divide it down to credits. This way you loose nothing. Now, for those of you OUTPOST! users. You also will loose nothing. BUT, you will gain access to all 3,500 conferences that PCBoard offered. For those of you who don't know.... we offer Intelec a (national/worldwide) network of about 150 conferences on many many topics. Please, download INTELEC.TXT for a listing of the conferences available. Also available is ILINK, a (national/worldwide) network of 50 (so far) conferences. These are different than Intelec but some have the same topics. Please, download ILINK.TXT for more information. PEN (Planet Earth Network) is a network of Ecological conferences on (guess?)... Planet Earth. Download PEN.TXT for a listing. One of the most exciting additions for you will be the Internet. You will have access to over 3,000 Internet Newsgroups and a private Internet email address!!! WOW! this is going to be GREAT! You can send mail to anyone, anywhere (that is on the Internet). Send mail to your friends at America On-Line, Compuserve, Genie, Prodigy, MCI Mail, AT&T Mail, etc etc etc etc.. You also will need to open the PCBoard door to use these conferences. Now, for more information to all of you. There are going to be a LOT of exciting additions to Cyber Space. One of the most exciting is the addition of 2 more 6 user packs. What that means is the addition of at least 8 more phone lines!!! YEA!!! This means MORE users online at the same time. More excitement in the games. More chatting going on. With the addition of Chat Link... all 16+ of you can talk (chat) to hundreds of others LIVE across the country (more on this below) We will be adding many new modules to Cyber Space and here are just a few...... Chat Link Links Cyber Space BBS to other systems world wide - hundreds of users in the Teleconference area at one time... Includes another entire message/forum area with file attachments... You can send files to other users across the country.. OMNI MALL Allows users to purchase and order products and services online with a charge card.... VISA MAN You will be able to purchase credits with Visa or MasterCard and get the credits instantly...... MORE USER PACKS Allows for up to 20 nodes to be added to this system...... Photo Data Base Data Base where users can advertise and attach VGA photos that can be viewed online.... OK... that done with... how about the new features and additions to Major BBS version 6.2? File Libraries-Fully Ripped New file library area with full-screen tagging, super CD ROM support, auto DIZ file extraction.. advanced searching and more... New .QWK Integrated QWK mail for reading and writing messages offline.. New Polls and Questionnaires Has intelligent branching, account macros, auto tallying and granting of files or credits..... New Ripped interface though entire system... Support for 28.8k We will have 28.8 modems online for you speedsters.. Now that you know "SOME" of our exciting plans for THIS YEAR, here are some of the hardware additions that will be done during the same period. ADDITIONS or REPLACEMENTS: Pentium 100MHz Motherboard and 16mb of ram 16 port serial card (16 modems) 8 14.4K and 28.8k modems 2 new motherboards for Door Computers 16 Megabytes of ram for Door Computers 2 Hard drives We will be investing many thousands of dollars to make this work. Here is a breakdown of some of those costs. In hardware we will be investing over $3,800 in additional items In Software we will be investing over $2,500 in additional items TOTAL $6,300 We had discussed increasing the rates so you would have to pay more for each credit... We decided against it and are asking for donations to Patron fund to help defray the substantial costs... We also hope you consider Cyber Space for purchasing your computer items... We will back our products... and we will be having a whole line of computer services.... So please consider a donation and your name will be placed in the BBS info center for eternity... Please send all donations to: Cyber Space P.O. Box 452 Sauk Rapids, MN 56379 Cyber Space will be the single largest BBS (we hope) in the entire upper midwest! We hope you find this combination of BBS's to be exciting and fun. Please, join in with us and send mail to CHRISTINE or mail to RUSTY on the Major BBS and in pcboard, please send mail to SYSOP. Let us know what you think. We are soooo excited about this and we were just "busting out" to tell you. Now that you know......... what do YOU think? So, now you ask "when will this happen"? We hope to move the computers together the first of May sometime. We will follow up with more information as we get closer. For PCBoard users, there will be "another" change of newsgroups. Some will be removed, but mostly since there will not be any files online, we will have more drive space available for news and mail. This will speed up access and provide better overall improvement. We are anxiously waiting to hear from you. Thank you for taking the time to read this and most of all, thank you for supporting CYBER SPACE. Rusty Townsend and Christine Blount (sysops) Jim~ McNelly ReSourceNet and GardenNet 612-654-8372, 656-0678 v.32bis jim.mcnelly@granite.mn.org --- * April 17th - ...everyday I write the book.... cc: Thea Hardy [HARDYT@CSOS.ORST.EDU] Michael Million [MM24681@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU] Byron Belitsos [71055.3435@COMPUSERVE.COM] Peg Seremjian [SEREMJIA@CS.UWP.EDU] Frank Shields [FRANKE@CRUZIO.SANTA-CRUZ.CA.US] ENV-LINK+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU James Appleby [L118096@zuni.LITC.LOCKHEED.COM] Scott Foerster [FOERSTER@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET] Dan Massey [massey@world.std.com] Lawrence London [LONDON@SUNSITE.UNC.EDU] Lee Fox [LFOX01@MAIL.MORE.NET] Tom Alexander [TALEXAN@CSOS.ORST.EDU] Paula Schenone [P.SCHENONE1@GENIE.GEIS.COM] Phil Calabrese [CALABRES@COD.NOSC.MIL] Pat Kiewicz [GKIEWICZ@OEONLINE.COM] Pat McNelly [PMCNELLY@LIBERTY.COM] JD Linderberg [FDL@EEYOR.ECON.UMICH.EDU]