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From: Bobbie Sumrada
Date: 9-08-90
Subj: InterLink User's Guide Introduction
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Hi!
Welcome to the InterLink User's Guide. A lot of time and
thought went into the creation of this document. I didn't do
it alone; a lot of Sysops who are members of InterLink and
some of our better moderators critiqued and suggested and re-
wrote parts of it. I wish to thank them all.
Now to the issue at hand.. If you are familiar with one or
more of those "other" electronic mail networks, you may have
had the opportunity to witness first-hand how conference
message bases can quickly fill with useless, idle chitchat.
Other conferences drift far off topic or degenerate into
battlegrounds for angry users. This is not uncommon today
on networks where no one is held responsible for keeping
the peace or guiding the conference back on track, and the
users feel more and more anonymous: a crowd mentality.
Conferences ideally should be useful and friendly places
where callers can interact productively and get as much
for their BBS long distance investment as possible. Many
people call long distance to get mail today, and even with
the magic of mail doors, the costs add up rather quickly.
Why download information you don't need or want?
Making conferences useful, on-topic, and full of information
is the goal of the InterLink Conference System.
The enclosed guide is an attempt to educate our users and help
them get up-to-speed on using the InterLink network. We've
also included some simple rules that have served us well in
managing our conferences thus far. They're not difficult rules
to understand or to remember and there's not a long list of
them. They're simply common sense, a "treat others as you
would have them treat you" kind of philosophy.
I sincerely hope this guide helps you understand a bit more
about how InterLink works and how easy it will be for you to
fit in with us. If you are curious about using InterLink,
but don't know how to find an InterLink board, check the BBS
you got this guide from for a file called ILNKnnn.ZIP. It's
a list of our member nodes (the nnn is the date of release).
A file called ILCONFnnn.ZIP will also contain a current list
of conferences available on the network, along with detailed
information about their content.
In closing, I'd like to welcome you to InterLink and hope
that you will find something of value with us..
Welcome!