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Subject: Forth on-line resources
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Date: 15 Oct 90 03:06:50 GMT
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Category 14,  Topic 4
Message 32        Sun Oct 14, 1990
GARY-S                       at 06:25 EDT
 
   
  For those who have wondered about the sudden pause in ForthNet ports
 from the xCFB's, the pc-board branch of ForthNet here finally is an
 explanation. Work requirements and years of dedication to the original
 CFB, the East Coast Forth Board, finally took its toll on ECFB SysOp
 Jerry Shifrin; and he elected to call it quits. Despite personal need
 to the contrary, Jerry stuck it out long enough for us to locate a
 new central node for the CFB's that would have a SysOp willing to deal
 with the mail porting necessary to maintain the ForthNet bridge.

  WE have located such a BBS and such a SysOp in Jim Wenzel of the 
 nationally recognized Grapevine, located in Little Rock, Arkansas. While
 Grapevine is NOT accessible via pc-pursuit, it is accessible via StarLink
 on node 9858. The Forth conference area on Grapevine is 58.

  Jim's board is pc-board and maintains storage for 2 gigabytes. Jim was
 already a major node in the RIME network, so we are fortunate to have
 him and Grapevine as members of ForthNet. Those interested in accessing
 Grapevine directly, registration is via data phone number 501/753-8121.
 Once registered use 501/753-6859. Any baud rate up to 19200 is supported
 on either line. Line 753-6859 rolls over if busy and the other line is
 open.

  We owe a great debt of gratitude to Jerry Shifrin for his tireless
 dedication all this time. I can absolutely guarantee if not for Jerry
 there would be no ForthNet. Jerry started ECFB when he was, indeed, a
 single light in the darkness; and was a tremendous help and influence 
 when we began the long process of building what is now ForthNet.

  Good Luck in whatever your future endeavors may be, Jerry. We will all
 miss you. I can promise I will.

  Welcome to the club Jim Wenzel. We are lucky someone as dedicated as
 you was willing to take up the slack.

    __         _ (Gary Smith)texbell!attctc!blackbox!bl133!lrark!glsrk!gars *
   / _' _   _ (_' P. O. Drawer 7680    *  GEnie Forth RT  &  Unix RT SysOp  *
  /__/ (_|_/ '._) Little Rock,AR 72217 * winken!well!gars * claris!wet!gars *
  gars@glsrk.uucp        - U. S. A. -  * ames!chinet!gars * ph:501-227-7817 *
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