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┌─────────────────────────────┐
│ DoorNet General Information │
└─────────────────────────────┘
┌───────────────────────────────────┐
│ Original text by Alex Rose │
│ 4/4/92 │
│ New text and editing by Steve Lin │
│ 4/19/93 │
└───────────────────────────────────┘
The original premise behind DoorNet is to provide a global network
environment for the distribution of news and information about DOORs.
Since then, DoorNet has expanded to cover actual file distribution of
DOOR products in a very rapid and timely manner. Also, DoorNet has
extended the concept of interBBS gaming to international scope by
providing a global network of interlinked BBS's using these types of
DOORs.
DoorNet is the first (and still the only) serious attempt to bring
message base support and file distribution directly from DOOR developers
and support personnel to sysops and users around the world. While it is
true that many DOOR developers offer a network conference or two, for
the most part the distribution of their conferences is very limited (to
a single network or their own DOOR registrants). Before DoorNet, getting
responses back from many DOOR authors was problematic at best, with
people resorting to calling up Directory Assistance and playing tricks
with the hapless telephone operators in order to locate unlisted voice
phone numbers or to get even one working data phone number to contact
the DOOR authors in question. Even what was once considered "adequate"
in established mail networks began to suffer woefully as DOOR developers
spread themselves too thin trying to find and participate in every
possible DOOR-related conference in any mail network that they could get
acceptance into. DoorNet brings everybody to the proverbial table, where
everyone can see everyone else and discuss matters freely.
DoorNet's mail conferences are divided into only a few main categories:
general interest (further subdivided by DOOR topics), network-related,
and individual product support. Of all of the DoorNet conferences, only
D_COMMON and D_SYSOP are required; the rest are just gravy. But we
recommend carrying all of the general interest conferences and
offering them to your users so they can talk about their favorite DOORs
and chat with their favorite DOOR authors; also, picking up the product
support conferences for the DOORs that you run on your own system (or
are planning to) may help you immensely. Consult the DoorNet EchoRoster
for more details on our conferences (that would be the EROSTER.* file
(use PKUNZIP to break out the files within)).
If you are a DOOR developer and would like to participate, please let us
know so we can accomodate your special needs, which may range from
setting up a new conference for your products or doing heavy-duty gating
of your existing conference(s) into and out of DoorNet to sending out
your DOORs or DOOR utilities to the DoorNet and DFN audiences.