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. October, 1992
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Rhode Island Computer Underground Society, .
Syndetic Illuminati, .
and Telecom Anarchists Newsletter .
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Table of Contents
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# Title ...........................
1 Introduction . Want to comment?
2 RISA Information Packet . Send Feedback to those
3 Telecom Gh0dz . 'RICUS GuYz'
4 Warning to the Masses . in Chat-323/NENet Common!
5 323Song! .
6 An RI BBS List, RICUS style .
7 School BBSes? .
8 Closing . They just LUV hearing about
. us!
. <grin>
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1: Introduction
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Welcome to Issue 3 of RICUS! Rumors of our death have been greatly
exagerated. <grin>
Thanks to a few textfile couriers, the last issue was distributed
far out of the intended audience, to places far and away, and even into
the hands of the very "net tyrants" themselves.
In this issue, we present a look at RISA, RI Sysops Association,
in other words, the Anti-RICUS. We even include the very RISA information
packet itself.
Have fun...
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2: RISA Information Packet
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Okay, RISAFORM.ZIP was acquired... What follows is a critique of it.
RISAFORM.ZIP contained the following files:
read.me - a file containing a plug for Microchip BBS
risa992.doc - a file, which we will see later, containing
info about "RISA", the RI Sysops Association.
infoform.exe - an program which generates a "RISA application"
(40k in size, by the way. We will examine it later.)
infoform.me - a "sample" RISA application
Risa992.doc contained the following text, for those who have not acquired
it through other means: [note, my comments have been added between the
square brackets]
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R.I.S.A : Rhode Island SysOps Association
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Written By Howard Bishop [^You forgot an apostrophe
after Sysops! <bg>
Table Of Contents
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1.......................................................About RISA
2.......................................................Leadership
3........................................................Info Form
4.......................................................Prejudices
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[Insert 20 or so useless linefeeds here]
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About The RISA Association
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The RISA Association is an association which created in order to stop
hackers and keep news around about whats going on in the state and
what to watch out for. This is an emergency group which is avaliable
to you through a one networked conference. This conference is
networked and echoed through a front end mail system called Front Door
or any other Fido Compatable mail system. We have chosen to use the
front end mailer so that in the event of an emergency or if there is
CRASH mail sent out, it would just bounce from system to system. The
mail routing will be very similiar to the mail routing used in 323
Net. 323 Net ive found to be very stable.
Mainly this organization was brought together to monitor hackers and
there every move. This is made to help the rate of Tele/anarchists
decrease over the next couple of months. Anyone who would like to join
this unique network should run INFOFORM.EXE so you can find out how to
join.
[Hrumph, Howie, I thought you got KICKED OFF 323 net? You found it to
be "stable"? Hmm? Do the alias messages ring a bell?
On another note, the entire risa992.doc file was poorly written and
expressed very little knowledge of spelling, grammer, or advanced
vocabulary. Not only is Howie a m0Dem FeWl, but poorly educated,
as well. <big grin> -ed]
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2
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Leadership
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I have created this association and I want it to grow strong against
the hackers. As you know, most organizations have a leader or a
president, vice president, and it is voted on. I would like to get
this organization moving so that we can stop the busting of hackers
throughout the state. If you would like to join, on your Info. Form /
Registration Form, There will be a box; and if you would like to be a
president of this, mark the box and the voting campaign will be held
at my voting booth at 401-934-2757.
[ First off, "stop the busting" means you DON'T WANT THEM TO GET IN
TROUBLE. Sure, neither do I; we agree in this regard. <g>
However, I don't think that's quite what you meant. You seem to be
opposed to hackers and getting them in trouble would be just what
you WANT. Again, your lack of writing skills shows.
One day you will be able to write high quality, professional documents
such as this one! -ed.]
3
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Info Form
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Run at INFOFORM.EXE
[Well, duh, like I couldn't have figured it out? You're really scraping
the bottom of the telecom barrel here, aren't you?
That's no surprise, the finest minds in RI telecom are already with US.
Also, what the heck is this "run at"? It's again readily apparant you
haven't even the most basic grasp of English.
-ed.]
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4
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Prejudices
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I know that most sysops do not favor teens. I am a teen sysop and do
not like prejudice people. I know a few people who run BBS's who are
prejudice to teens. I know alot of you think that im just a kid
fooling around. But im really not. I also realize I won't get hardly
any adults to join this because they think that im to inmature; Which
I call prejudice. If you want to be prejudice and not join, thats ok.
Im just asking. I have a sense of humor as most sysops do with a few
exceptions.
[ GoSh! I hope you have a sense of humor about this and don't go and
try to kill us or something! I'm just shaking in my booties...
On another note, who CARES if most Sysops "favor teens" or not?
Obviosly, we don't care. Many of the best Sysops are in their teens (or
atleast under 25. Hah hah!)
I think you just want to try and be "professional."
We called your board a few times, "anarchy supported in the message
bases." What a crock! You want to "support anarchy", and then you
come out with this? That seems slightly contradictory, IMO. -ed. ]
Thank You
Howard Bishop
RISA Chairman
[ No, thank you!11!]
Anti Hack (tm) <--- Not. "RICUS (tm)"
(c)1992 RISA Corperation --- Hack The Hackers [what's a hacker?
I don't see any in THIS state!]
[^CORPORATION, fool. Get a spell checker! This is
an embarassment to 13 year old m0d3m g33kz! <bg>
BTW, that Hack the Hackers is really ingenious. (Not!)
Oh, and a corporation implies a corporate entity of some type,
a company, a business... get the point?
Do you see us having RICUS Inc. and The RICUS Corporation
at the end of every file? No, of course not!
RICUS - Rocking the Telecom World. -ed. ]
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Ok, well guys, that was an informative document, wasn't it?
At the very least, it was amusing.
Ok... now for the analysis infoform.exe, a 40584 byte MS-DOS
executable (duh!) I examined the file with my handy hex editor,
(you all really should get one, you can do neat things like modify
any program of your choice to reflect your name instead of the
company who produced it, change text in the program, edit BlueWave
packets <BIG grin>, the usual chaos.)
and determined it was written in MS QuickBasic (presumably
version 4.5) Now, upon running this program, it puts up a
s0oPer KeWl RISA logo, made out of slashes and shaded blue
and white. It's really a site to see (yeah,right!) and adds
some much needed glory to the RISA name.
It then puts if a neat little application, asking things such
as "Your Name", "Your Voice #", "Your BBS Name", "Your BBS #",
"Your Sex", "Your Age", and the highlight of this exe...
"Be President Check Yes? [ ] No? [ ]" This is his way of asking
you if you would like to run for "President of RISA."
What an esteemed title that would be! Oh, how I desire to be known
as "President of the Rhode Island Sysops Association." I can see my
name in lights...
Well, if this thing goes anywhere, it's fairly obvious one of the larger
"professional" ego maniacs will proclaim this title for themselves.
Now, lets do some further analysis on WHY he's attempting to form RISA.
To remove "hackers" (or, as he wrote, to STOP them from being removed! heh
heh!) Hackers? I don't see any hackers. I see some rather odd individuals
who get kicks out of "disturbing the peace" (?) on BBSes, but certainly
no evil, malicious hackers, as he would like to make it seem.
RISA is an attempt to be at the "Anti-RICUS." He sees dozens of people
flocking in our direction and is getting jealous of it all. Thanks for the
attention, Howie, I'm sure RISA is a force to be reckoned with.
<yaaaaaaawwwn!>
'til next time,
>-RH->
I was just informed that RISA has changed its name to MANS.
Microchip ANarchy Support group. aHa!
Call Microchip for more info.
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3: Telecom Gh0dZ
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The TeLec0m gh0d
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"You take a mortal man, and put him in control
Watch him become a god, watch people's heads a roll..."
- Megadeth
Aren't you sick of annoying users/sysops who think they are gh0d? You
know, the LaMaHs who post messages like, "You suck cause you're not me, I know
eVeRyThInG ab0ut your b0ard, and I can cRaSh it uSiNg my gh0d knowledge of
s00per KeWl backdoorz!" Don't ya hate that? I know as a sysop, it tends to be
a TAD bit annoying for some little shit to tell you that basically you know
nothing and you are "out of your league". So I've devised this file to help
my fellow sysops to determine what to do with a TeLec0m gh0d...
First you have to be able to tell if you have a TeLec0m gh0d on your
hands or not...so here's a little list...
1) The user leaves messages (public or private, usually both) threatening you
if he/she doesn't get high access, they'll crash the board.
2) The user leaves messages (public) saying, "Kiss my ass, I am here! I will
run this board, or challenge it to a war!" or something along those lines
3) The LaMaH tries to convince you he knows all these s00per KeWl backdoors
and that he/she is best friends with the author of your BBS program
4) He tries to humiliate (usually failing) users or the sysop...
5) And of course, the LaMaH actually tries crashing your board
If you have a user who matches anyone of these, or all of these, or
maybe just some. Most likely you have a TeLec0m gh0d on your hands...and
with that gh0d comes his/hers HUGE gh0d eg0! So here's what you can do to
"cut that eg0 down to size"
1) Find out where the gh0d lives and cut his/her phone lines...I personally
like this one!
2) Take squinky's course on Stealing a Sysop's computer, of course it can be
anybody's computer in this case...
3) If the gh0d is a sysop, call his/her board, find out what program gh0d's
using, find out as MUCH as you can about that program (including s00per
KeWl backdoors) and crash it
4) If he's a sysop, and you have connections with authors of BBS's (like you
call Alpha sites or whatever) Hex edit a few messages and start a Author
war, where your gh0d's board will definetly get taken away by that
program's author
5) Or you can just lock the gh0d out, and make sure he/she never calls ANY
boards in the state again!
All these choices will most likely cut down that huge eg0 of that
gh0d's. Make up your own plan, or use something up there. Choice is yours.
And if all fails, just find out where the gh0d lives and pummel 'em...heh
Good luck!
/\/\orloc|<
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4: Warning the Masses
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Squinky Phile # 5 -=-=-=-=- Warning the Masses
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Well folks, it appears our little hobby has once again been raped by ignorance
and stupidity. A certain local area sysop, who shall remain nameless, has
started an Anti-hack group, calling RICUS a hack/phreak/pirate group. I can not
speak for the individual memembers of RICUS, but I can speak for the group in
saying that RICUS(as a group) has never in ANY shape way or form, hacked,
phreaked, or pirated software. Lies like this can ruin reputations, cost
people jobs, and other nastyness. I do not believe that any RICUS memembers
are involved in any illegal computer fraud activites. Nor do I believe that
the Anti-hack group which has formed has any HARD evidence. Most likely
rumors and just jealousy have spawned such lies. I certainly hope the BBS
comunity can see the falsehood in these tales. Otherwise Telecom is in a
sadder state than I thought it was. I personally challenge those who makes
these accusitions to show evidence of them. Show me where you have seen a RICUS
release of pirated software. Show me where you have seen RICUS take claim for
hacking. Show me where you have seen RICUS release K0dez and other phreaking
information. Truth is, you CAN NOT. You have no evidence what-so-ever. I have
heard that *I* am being blamed for hacking the board of the head of this new
group. I would like to say in response for this, that, *I* have no idea
what-so-ever on how to go about hacking a bbs, let alone crashing one. If
such an activity was done under my account, I would like to be informed.
Otherwise, keep your acusations where they belong, in the trash can.
-sQuinky-
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I think you all know how to get in touch with me
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5: 323 Song
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`We've Got a NeT Pr0bLem Now'
(c) ?H? ??M?L?$ ??? `92'
All Rights Are Sheep Entrails
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I AM MIKE FLABBEEE!
Born AGAIN WiTh FaScIST CraVINgS!!!'
Still, you made me syyyys-ad-min!
BBS rights will soon go 'way
I'm your NET HUB today..
Now I command All of you
Now you're gonna pay for axs that's kewl
I'll make sure you're my users too!
ENest Uber ALLES
Uber ALLES ENest
Stan Weyman will control you
Still you think it's natural
RICUS knockin' for the Master race
Still you butkiss to save face
You close your eyes, can't happen here
The FCC with beurocracy is comin' near
Censorship won't come back, you say
Be professional or you will pay
Be professional or you will pay!
FidoNet Uber ALLES
Uber ALLES FidoNet
Welcome to 1994
Are you ready for BBS war?
You will meet the RICUS police
They'll speak their minds and fr0 slap your neice
You'll quietly plot against them
`Let's take his modem away from him!'
Don't you worry, it's only a phase
They'll submit when they've aged
Die on our new verbal death
Rot your eyes, make you deaf
Making money for Mike Labbe
And All the friends of Mike Labbe!
Marcy Crossman Uber ALLES
Uber ALLES Marcy Crossman
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Thousand Pardons To : Jello Biafra And The Dead Kennedys
: Well, errr No-one else...
Special Thanks To : DaV, Spartacus
Greets To ??????? SQUiNKY, H0w1E, DaVaH, All you other wonderful people.
??????? All Associates of RiCUS/SI/TA
??????? ?H? ??M?L?$ ??? ???????
??????? RiCUS/SI/TA/KeWL ???????
???? `92' ????
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
[ Note, any similiarity in the names mentioned above to actual people,
BBSes, or things, living, dead, or otherwise is *purely* coincidental.]
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6: RI BBS List
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__ . __ __ . RI Computer Underground Society . The RIBBS list,
| | | | | |__ . 401 NPA/Surrounding Area BBS List . sans the *BS*!
| | |__ |__| __| . October, 1992 Edition .
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Springboard 232-0088 Smithfield John Flood
Crossroads 252-4035 Rehoboth,MA Tom/Renee Croome
Our House 254-0848 Bristol Bill/Angel John
EarthWorld 254-1262 Bristol Heidi/Marc Agin
IBM World 272-4739 Providence Mike M/Marcy C
Tom & Chris's BBS 272-7822 Providence Tom Desillier
Lair- Lizard King 294-5949 N Kingstown Michael Smith
Opportunity Knocks 295-2342 Exeter Brian Scott
Omega Concern 295-2725 N Kingstown Scott Glynn
Elvis & UFO Sights 322-7568 Richmond Ron Massee
Chowdanet 331-0334 Providence Brad Shipp
MacStation 331-4212 Providence Charlie Walker
Rhode Warrior 331-6079 Providence Rob Hurst
Modern Technology 333-3451 Cumberland Fred Barra
Gambit 333-6424 Cumberland Bill Pommenville
Prime Cut 334-3096 Lincoln Peter Tarpy
Data Express 336-3868 Seekonk,MA Gil Gomes
S.A.S.S 351-2305 Providence Royal Preston
Progress. Resources 351-5997 Providence Birkin Diana
Cloneware Sales 353-3331 N Providence Michael Walsh
E-Nest Providence# 353-3359 Warwick Mike and Lea
Necropolis 364-0524 Charlestown Frank Faubert
Razor's Edge 364-6343 Richmond Chris Arnold
South Shore 364-9788 Wyoming Jack Gordon
Computer Work$hops 397-3966 Coventry Jeffrey/Janelle
IBM World II 397-5146 Coventry Marcy C/Mike M
Prometheus 397-7522 Coventry Stan Weyman
Computer Clinic 421-3452 Providence D Manchester
ACME 421-9614 Providence Giachelli/Lewis
Death's Doorstep 423-2964 Jamestown Ed Beaulieu
Cerebral Babylon 435-3576 E Providence Todd Rourke
GAYtway Commun. 435-6544 E Providence Blind Faith
IEEE 454-2977 Providence Doug Wilkinson
Anomaly 455-0347 Providence Mike Deignan
J&W University 456-4634 Providence Students
Mise En Place 461-2605 Warwick Ralph Oelbaum
Behind Enemy Lines 463-6973 Cranston Scott Nerney
Soth's Domain 463-7799 Warwick Marshall Votta
Pilgrim Highschool BBS 463-9928 Warwick School
Board Stiff 521-2851 Providence Stephen Knudde
Info Exchange 521-6456 Providence Robert Gregory
Jason's Lair 539-0344 Richmond Al Simone
Flatline 567-0915 Glocester Louis Grossi
Dragnet 568-2343 Pascoag John Mehrtens
R.I.A.C.E. 621-5359 Providence Mike Burgio
Tiverton 624-1748 Tiverton Paul Menard
Tiv. High School 624-5209 Tiverton Ed Fernandez
Sakonnet 624-6107 Tiverton Tim Watters
Meet House Tiv. # 624-8744 Newport John O'Donnell
Bridge 625-5845 Tiverton Paul Terceiro
RI Tel Cumb. # 658-2033 Woonsocket Eric Chew
Connections 658-3465 Cumberland Eric Robichaud
Rebel Outpost 683-3218 Portsmouth Ron Jakubisyn
Mac Shop 683-3460 Portsmouth Mitch Mallett
Ups and Downs 683-5961 Portsmouth G + J Barrett
RI TI Pro 683-6954 Portsmouth Bill Collins
Comstar 722-1468 Pawtucket Takam
South Seas 723-0725 Pawtucket Bill Dryer
Fly By Night 724-1209 Pawtucket Martin Haggarty
Custom Concepts 724-4332 Pawtucket Scott Bousquet
Horses Head 726-8186 Central Fall Prescot Chartier
Total Coverage 727-4124 Pawtucket John Mota
Bloom Beacon Pawt# 728-1107 Johnston Montminy & Watson
Nite Moves 728-5796 N Providence George Peters
Cyber Zone 732-0258 Warwick Moorehead/Fayne
Eagle's Nest Comm. 732-5292 Warwick Mike and Lea
Danger Zone 732-5687 Warwick Robert Kircher
Hackers Paradise 732-8622 Warwick Bryan & Scott
Master BBS 737-4119 Warwick Tom Gallaghan
Barbarian 737-5103 Warwick Clark & Woodwar
S/W Connection 737-9774 Warwick Louis Levasseur
Channel 15 738-3017 Warwick Mike Marzilli
Communications 739-4010 Warwick Charles Bare
IDS World Prov# 751-1067 E Greenwich Andy Green
Meet House Prov# 751-1606 Newport John O'Donnell
Bloom Beacon 751-3831 Johnston Montminy & Watson
CommPort USA 761-9812 Seekonk,MA John Robin
Country Store 761-9831 Seekonk,MA Glenn Britland
Computer Exchange 762-4293 N Smithfield Fred Beaudreau
X-Men 765-4244 Woonsocket Dan Sokoloff
Eyestrain 765-6205 Woonsocket Brent Bosworth
Arcade 765-8597 N Smithfield Michael Theroux
Chickenbone Place 766-8751 Lincoln Mark Smith
BVBBS 769-2055 Woonsocket James Williams
Aldrich Jr. High BBS 781-1998 Warwick School
Bob's Iron Room 781-5822 Warwick Bob Nordin CPT
Journal 781-7024 Providence Gene Lyles
Mystic Illusion 782-4264 Wakefield Mark Schieldrop
Information Resour 783-7559 Wakefield C Jacques/J Dargi
Rose Garden 789-0646 Narraganset Rose Medeiros
Bristol Hotel 821-1017 Coventry La Fazia
WME/Roadrunner 821-1457 W Warwick Ron Bouthillier
ImageNet 822-3060 Coventry Steve Medeiros
Fleet Headquarters 823-0176 Coventry Chris Trainor
Colossus 823-0979 Coventry Andrew Bent
Signals 823-3038 Coventry Larry Celani
The Parthenon 823-8859 W Warwick Ray & Lea Walsh
Total Perspective 826-2943 Coventry Adam Gerard
Advantage V/Data 826-3789 W Warwick Joe Caparco
Naval Justice 841-3990 Newport John Sawyer
NCC386 846-1763 Newport Bill Fink
Nightline 847-8946 Newport Jeremy Dennis
Meeting House 848-2200 Newport John O'Donnell
Palace of Exile 848-7225 Middletown Jason Caminiti
Flightline 848-7936 Newport Dan Haller
Terminal Madness 848-9069 Middletown Chris Mathis
Imperium 849-1536 Middletown Alex Beckers
More 849-2215 Middletown Howell/Akin
Twilight Zone 849-4346 Middletown David Kahan
Gateway 849-9205 Middletown David Todd
PC Upgrades 861-2261 Providence Jim Stravato
Outer Limits 883-5255 Bellingham,MA
Off Broadway 884-4967 N Kingstown Hank Bookman
IDS World Network 884-9002 E Greenwich Andy Green
Microchip 934-2757 Chepachet Howard Bishop
95th Floor 941-7851 Cranston Paul Mallett
WBCS 943-2581 Cranston Russell Hull
Ministry Knowledge 943-3446 Cranston David Costantino
Talk of the Town 943-7093 Johnston Bob Centracchio
Bishop of Battle 943-8181 Cranston Steve Dunphy
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Well, looks like there's a LOT of systems in this little state of ours.
Have fun, and remember... The RICUS Motto: It's only a hobby!
(Seems we take that motto more to heart than those other guys!)
I took the RIBBS list, ran it through a program, and made this.
Great, isn't it?
We know lots of the systems up there suck, but we're not gonna say which
ones. We leave that to you, the caller, to decide.
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7: School BBSes
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Lately, we've been informed of numerous BBSes, run by schools. Primarily these
are junior high and high schools. Take a look at the BBS list above for the
numbers to some of them.
Now, this wouldn't be bad in itself. Afterall, getting more kids involved
in telecom is great. However, take a look at the software these boards are run
on.
Yes, that's right... Procomm Plus Host Mode! It is truly sad. I mean, if
you're going to dedicate a phone line to a BBS, atleast put it up on something
usable. Put it up on Telegard, Renegade, anything.. but not the host mode to
a term program!
Then, these boards are being used for rediculous things like sending messages
back in forth ("pen pal letters") for a French class. Now, come on people, if
they're going to put up a public BBS which ANYONE can dial into, atleast use
it for a decent purpose. You can write pen pal letters in a word processor,
even.
Why not try and give these people recommendations on how to improve, what
software to run, how to set it up, etc.? These boards and the potential users
they could provide could be an asset to the BBS community in general.
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8: Closing
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The next issues of the RICUS t-file may take on a new format. Instead of one
large text file, it may be split into many small ones, like those great
Cult of the Dead Cow text files, who we all greatly admire! Why? Well,
it saves the effort of putting them into one large file. Besides, having
lots of small ones looks better than having a few large ones. Still, this
new format isn't definite yet.
As Squinky said, RICUS as a GROUP does very little. ALL it does is make
the text files that are in the RICUSxxx.TXT. What individual members do
are *not* done in the name of the group and are not of our concern.
If you have a problem with an _individual_ in the group, take it up with
that INDIVIDUAL and not the group as a whole.
Remember, it's only a hobby! <grin>
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