Re: Sub host change

> Shotgun,
>   Sorry to hear that you will be relinguishing the reins on this sub.  I wish
> to thank you for your moderation of a sub that truely could be a devil's hole
> to read.   I know that Tom Torbeck will continue on where you have left off.

Thank you for the Kind words, Medic.  I will do my best to handle this sub ina
very open format.  I probably should however admit that I am very PRO VA
though.

>   I, too, wonder about the place of the one line hobby bbs with all of this
> talk of the internet intergration into VA.  Most of the VA/VBBS boards in my
> area are of this nature, with little desire to include the internet into
> boards, partly due to the costs of obtaining a dial up PPP account and the
> higher costs of having a multi-user dropbox, and partly because the majority
> of their users already have their own Internet accounts outside of any other
> bbs accounts that they may have.

One thing that people forget, is that although you (not specificly "YOU" may
not want these features, others DO.  I personally love that more is being put
into that end of the software.  Matter of fact, if things go as plannned, I
will have a full-time connect and a static IP address no-later-then Feb 1st.

The bad part about all of this is that part of it still depends on your
location.  I live in 'Chicagoland' -- well outside the city limits.  The one
thing that we do NOT have a shortage of is ISPs.  The one I use now I found
out about from a local software store -- where the ISP just so happens to have
three T-1's residing.

There was is a domain transfer fee, but they do not charge extra for having
the domain there.  Matter of fact, the owner told me that if I want to set it
up as a deal, he would give a 'group' discount to any of my users that went to
him for the Full Service account.  I still provide them with the free, easy to
get email and everything else they want.

Later on, if Roland DOES get that telnet thing working, I will put that up for
them.  That way, my users can go to him and STILL get onto the BBS.

Tom Torbeck, 1@1847000 VirtualNET
Regions 5 and 8 Coordinator

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