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Hi I run a PCBoard BBS in Indianapolis, and have been running BBS's for
10 years now. I have one of the origional PCBoard serial numbers, my BBS
is of good size "18 public nodes, 4 gigs, and around 900 conferences". I
do know what I am doing. This is not an ad for my BBS, so I will not leave
a phone number.
After careful consideration I have come to the conclusion that I should
warn everyone about Intelec and Cliff Whatkins. I have had numerous
problems with his flagrant authority and the way he runs his network.
Cases in point:
1. I joined his network because he said it was a lot less hassels than
RIME. I have had more problems with Cliff than anyone else I call
to run mail with. I was calling him directly to get the Intelec,
Interzone, and Vnet conferences. I was not allowed to get mail for
over 2 months because I had an incorrect tag line. I called him
and left messages on his system for these 2 months trying to get
back on. He would not do it until he had time to actually verify
my tag line in my config file for rnet; wouldn't even let me run a
test message to him to verify it. On top of that I sat here calling
him at least 24 times, and he was never in. Finally I got him to
look at my config file and let me back on.
2. I was notified about 4 weeks ago that he had too many sysops getting
mail from his system. I was told bluntly to call another system
of his choosing to get the mail. I was getting about 200 conferences
from him. I told him it would take me a little while to reconfigure
rnet for another bbs system. The next day I no longer had access to
get onto Cliffs BBS. The guy he gave me to does not have the same
mail door, nor does he have the conferences numbered the same. I
spent all day Saturday loading new software, getting it to work, and
matching conference numbers. I was notified by the new guy that
his system is so busy "SMALL 2 LINES" that I need a time slot to call
in to get the mail. He also does not carry all of the conferences
that I picked up from Cliff Watkins at Intelec. I just recieved
a message from the sysop of the new system that he talked to Cliff
and Cliff said "TOUGH". So now I have conferences configured on my
system and have no mail access to update them!!!
WHAT A CROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you are thinking about joining Intelec, then think twice! This is
what I just went through and thought that I should warn everyone.