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From: depeche@cs.mcgill.ca (Acme Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit)
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Subject: Re: Forming a Global BBS List.
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.200812.4721@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 8 Mar 91 20:08:12 GMT
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In article <5023@mindlink.UUCP> Marc_North@mindlink.UUCP (Marc North) writes:
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>        THIS MESSAGE IS TO EVERYONE WHO CALLS BBS's.
>
>        I am forming a global list of BBS's. All computer types, all countries,
>EVERYTHING.

good luck.

>        I am doing this as a project, and any final list will be available via
>FTP in the near future.

final list? jeez you must be new around here. In 1983 I started publishing
a MONTHLY newsletter that kept a very up-to-date list of every local BBS I
could find in the Boston area. This was a job that was big enough for me,
but there were lots of mistakes in info people supplied me, and BBSs would
go up and down every two weeks. I did this for 3 years, and in 1987 the job
was too big for one person!

How do you expect to VERIFY the information? I hope you don't plan to just
publish it without verifying it... What if it is a residence number?  And
if it's global and you plan to verify each number, your phone bill will
exceed the Canadian national debt quite shortly.

>        Reach DEEP into the BBS well, pull out the obscure, the strange, the
>oddballs as well as the slick mainstream ones. Don't worry about being
>repetitive, I'll weed out the duplicate submissions. Please be accurate.

ya, right... once again, I wish you good luck.
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|S. Alan Ezust		: McGill University School of Computer Science      |
|depeche@cs.mcgill.ca	:	     Montreal, Quebec, Canada		    |
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