How to become a HUB? PRIMARY HUBS: Make his mailruns via The Toolkit Carry all Conference Distribute the Network's Archive Files Provide daily (or more frequent) mailruns SECONDARY HUBS: have all of the above as options. Primary Hubs will recieve a series of network ID's and be responsible for maintaining that list. Each series will be in 1000 value blocks. No more than 9 such HUBS will be formed and preference will be given to boards in specific geographic regions. This ability will allow any new node to get started via a nearby servicing HUB. Geographic preferences. The United states is to be divided into a 2 by 3 Matrix consisting of North/South and West, Central and East. Their ID Blocks will be: 0-999 Toolkit BBS (Master Hub) 1000 N E New England and Mid Costal 2000 S E Southeastern states 3000 N C Northern Midwest 4000 S C Southern Midwest 5000 N W Northern Pacific/Mountain 6000 S W Great Southwestern 7000 East Canada 8000 West Canada 9000 Foreign They will assign ID's to hubs that echo through them using the 100's blocks available. If need be subseqent HUBS will get assigned the 50's subset above the initial hundreds breaks. As an example: A node ID of: 1100 would indicate a seconday hub echoing via the primary NE hub 1101 would be one of the above hub's nodes. If the HUB grew beyond nine subordinate hubs, he would issue n050 etc. for new hubs--going to a 50 break