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Mike Cothran | Phantom | VA Version 1.30 Released !! |
November 17, 1996 12:54 AM * |
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Re: VA Version 1.30 Released !! > > Any word on when VA v2.0 might be out? I noticed tonight that @1 is > > running it (not in the file area yet though) when I was trying to find out > > why I haven't been able to make a VASTnet connection for a while... > > Fester > Because vastnet got deleted in a hard drive crash, so I guess he decided to > stick with Vnet only (personally I feel it was a good choice, but I would > like to still have the email gate) > �h��m VA 2.0 -- $17 now, more later, two paid updates in less than a year... the following is a prepared statement by mjc ------------------------------------------------------- Are RdG and GW Culling the Herd? Looking at (as we are supposed to) the recent Net Guide sent to all VBBS & VA Sysops by GW, I find the following to still be a part of the REQUIREMENTS for updating the VNET Policy (Network Guide). lines 49-53 All information contained herein is subject to change as the Network grows and changes. Any Policy changes will be announced on the VirtualNET Policy Announcements Message Area. This Document will then be updated and redistributed by the NC or ANC using Mass Mail with file attach to the RC, AC, ALC staff. lines 63-68 Update procedures for this file are as follows. When a Policy change occurs VirtualNET's the NC or ANC will post an Official announcement in VirtualNET's Official Message Area called "VirtualNET Policy Announcements". At that time, The NC or ANC will also distribute this document to ALL VirtualNET Officials, AC thru NC. The updated copy may also be sent to ALL Sysops from time to time. This is the last post to the aforementioned area... 5/5 [8] Networked VNet Policy Announcements v Title: Re-Post Date: Tue May 07, 1996 21:48:07 EST (-0500) (191 days old) Origin: The GWE BBS [ASV/CIN] (ANC) [VSB] (Ohio) [614-266-7506] From: Gene Wells #1 @1614017 VirtualNET From: Gene Wells #1 @1614017 VirtualNET Title: Official Change to the AreaFix Standards requirements !!!! Date: Sat Feb 10, 1996 14:17:47 As of today VirtualNET's requirement for AreaFix type Email being processed via VirtualNET has changed. In addition to the existing AreaFix Standards, Roland DeGraaf's VMB Standards are now acceptable in VirtualNET. ---------------------------------- sniped ---------------- It seems like the "how to distribute policy" was not followed in this case either. The keyword(s) update and upgrade produced the following: for update, the above portion and little more; for upgrade, nada! The keyword VBBS is never mentioned, it is as if it never existed in VNET. Never does it state in the netguide that you must upgrade from VBBS to VA. NEVER! It does state that ONLY VA will be allowed in VNET. It does say that VA named and the related disscussion bases "Must Be Approved," it says nothing about VBBS bases however. Does this mean RdG (and GW) do not require RdG's approval in advance of the setup of those bases now? lines 127-130 5) VA Registration is a Requirement of VirtualNET. SysOps are on a probationary basis until such time as they register. Also, Virtual Advanced is the Required software for inclusion in VirtualNET. Running any other software subjects the Sysop to removal from VirtualNET. lines 140-143 7) VirtualNET Technical Standards are propriatary and solely dependant on Roland De Graaf's VNET.EXE networking software. Therefore, use of any other tossing software or clone software is prohibited in VirtualNET and is grounds from removal from the network without notice. For those of us wishing to run VBBS under VA for ANY reason, this could be a major problem. Even if we only use VBBS for backward (inclusive) compatability with gated networks where VA is not being used at all by starting a copy of VBBS in a different directory and using it only for tossing into gated subs from that network. After all, VNET v7.x & v8.x are a part of VBBS and should qualify under the aforementioned lines. Searching for VNET now. Nothing that is not already shown, in the above, that matters to this sysop / server system. * * * What exactly are the standards anyway? Does his DB format use Jammer, Hudson, or what, can we use a QWK packet creator other than his, a FIDO tosser other than his, can we even use HIS correctly, flawlessly? Is this (making ALL systems use VA) going to FIX the problems or just remove the more vocal complainers and their abilities to voice those same complaints. I think the requirement for running VADV (VA) and the lack of support in VFIDO (VFIDO - NM), VMB (VAREA - NM), and other issues that have never been settled CORRECTLY, causes this intended MANDATORY upgrade/update to be percived as "the last thing seen by a busy bee as s/he is working to enrich the hives supply of nectar and a tractor/trailer rig rushes toward it's own destination, splat!" I feel the aims of the net, and the aims of the sysop are not the same in this regard. If this does not kill VNET and make a shambles of other Type 1 (prior to VA) networks then the author is very clearly failing in what seems to be his intent. I see RdG as the author of two fine program suites, one of which he is not wishing to support anymore and the other which is unsupportable by third parties due to the author's wishes to "do it myself." We as sysops are between a rock and a hard place... Q: How do you shell nuts? A: Place them between a rock and a hard place. Apply Pressure. We are nuts (ask anyone who runs a BBS of any type) I see this as a way for him to finally regain control of unregistered VBBS copies, regain monies he feels he is owed for those copies, and a clean break for an sysop that wishes to leave VNET. We have our orders, Let's Lead, Follow or Get Out Of The Way! Let's not take the time to talk about it any more, there are only 7 weeks left and counting till VA ONLY Day. I for one WILL change over, it is not with an easy mind that I do so though. I feel like a gun is being pressed to my head, and while we always have a choice (really, you do, even with a gun pressed to your head) I feel that the trigger is being squeezed, very slowly, even as I comply with these ORDERS from on high. ------------------------------------------------------- Mike Cothran -=SysOp=- POG BBS 205-650-0998 Voice 205-880-8210 Host System for several message areas: Space Exploration & Astronomy (Host in VNET and gated into 397573 Celestial Discovery CNET) Space News & Views (Host in VNET and gated into 128672 Science/Technology~~ Discussion CNET) Fishing~~ Fresh & Saltwater (Host in VNET & CNET - gated) Camping Sites "World Wide" (Host in VNET & CNET - gated) Hunter Green~~ Discussion (Host in CNET not yet gated) Gateway for several FIDO Klingon Echoes into VNET Type1 Gateway for several internet local chat usenet groups SC of JAANet; SC of DragNet; AC 205 CastleNET; AC 205 Foreign Legion VNET Server for the greater Huntsville and North Alabama VNET sysops �ķ ��� �� �ķ � � � Huntsville Computer Club, Inc. �Ľ �ķ � �ķ �� � � �ķ � �Ķ � Huntsville, AL 205-650-0998 � �Ľ � �Ľ � �ļ �Ľ �� �Ľ � VBBS 7.oo2 VirtualNet 1205020 |
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