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- Subj : Internet Help
- To : Horsepowr
- From : Sysop #1
- Date : Thu Dec 15 1994 10:37 pm PST
-
- RE: Internet Help
- BY: Horsepowr to Wild Kat on Mon Dec 12 1994 09:03 am
-
- > To answer the question properly: For Internet E-Mail and UseNET newgroups
- > (message bases) you'll need a $195 software package called NetXpress (aka
- > SyncUUCP) plus a UUCP account to a Internet service provider which averages
- > about $50 to set up with DNS (Domain name service which offers the ability f
- > outsiders to send email to the bbs as Sysop@YourBBS.ORG rather than
- > Sysop@UUCP.YourProvider.com etc,etc) and about $15-$25 a month for the servi
- > + any LD charges. That still doesn't provide you with Telnet, FTP, Gopher,
- > Archie, etc,etc. To provide any of those services you have to have speciali
- > software and a SLIP/PPP connection to a provider which is much more, and sin
- > those sevices are real time, if you weren't connected to the service provide
- > those features wouldn't be active anyway. For a leased analog SLIP connecti
- > most service proders that offer such a service charge about $500 to set it u
- > and $100-$200 per month, plus the price of the software. I use Novell's
- > LANWorkplace that cost me $595, and it doesn't even provide archie, gopher,
-
- In reponse to the recent messages about hooking your Synchronet BBS up to the
- Internet I would like to unvail a project that I have been working on for the
- past 3 months. I have developed a series of interfaces that will allow you to
- interface your board with the Internet with the following options:
-
- * Newsgroups - Currently I carry 100 of them, the total number you
- - can carry is unlimited
- * FTP File Areas - Currently I have SimTels Software Repository
- - Online. 200 File Areas, 15,000 files.
- - Full descriptions, and I didn't have to type
- - in a single file area or description
- * Anonymous FTP - Anonymously FTP any file from any site on the
- - entire internet. It will bring the file online
- - with a description.
- * E-Mail - Just recently I designed the engine which will
- - allow you to use one e-mail account to reach
- - your entire user base. Your users can send
- - E-mail to anyone on the internet as well.
- * Archie - Locate any file anywhere on the internet
- * Finger - Get information on any user on the internet
- * Whois - Get user information on anyone on the internet.
-
- I have designed this software with my own system in mind. I run with 1 modem
- and phone line so there is a delay between the time a user requests a file for
- FTP and when it is brought online. Although you can configure it how you want
- to, I pick up all the FTP requests in one event nightly.
-
- As you saw in the previous quotes, the prices that internet providers are
- charging these days are astronomical. How much do I pay to do all that I do
- might you ask? 7 dollars and 95 cents a month. Thats it. All you need is a
- standard unix shell account and you are ready to roll.
-
- I have kept this software to myself for a long time now but am considering
- marketting it to Synchronet Sysops around the world. If you are interested you
- can contact me at the following addresses:
-
- jobe@universe.digex.net (Internet)
- 1:261/1204 (Fidonet)
- Or voice at 410-667-4525 (This number will only be voice until my system
- goes online officially. Most like in under 3
- weeks time. Then it will be taken over for a
- BBS call in number)
-
- Joe Benik
- International Data Network
-