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From: NETOPRWA@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu (Wayne Aiken)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Phone Book Finally Wakes Up
Message-ID: <90013.040751NETOPRWA@NCSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 13 Jan 90 09:07:51 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University Computing Center
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In article <237@oldcolo.UUCP> dave@oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Hughes):
>        Because in no telephone book, in any city, have I ever been
>able to find modem numbers. Not just local BBS's, even business
>'BBS's'.

New Orleans does, or so they did the last time I was there a year ago, and
calling up BBS's from the motel room.  Unless you have a list like the Darwin
US BBS list or The List, before you go out on the road, it can be very
difficult to find any BBS's at all.  I was amazed that neither NYC nor Boston,
both very big computer/BBS locations, had any useful information at all in the
phone book.

Many times, I've had to resort to calling up Radio Shacks or other computer
stores in the off-chance that someone there might actually know something about
computers (:-)) and could give me a number.  Nowadays, my motto is:

    The National BBS list.  Don't leave home without it.

Wayne Aiken                netoprwa@ncsuvm.bitnet      "You can BE what
PO Box 30904               netoprwa@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu     you WON'T!!"
Raleigh, NC  27622         wayne@shumv1.ncsu.edu         --"Bob"
(919) 782-8171             BBS: (919) 782-3095