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- Beta site application form
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- Thank you for your interest in becoming a Multiboard Communications
- Centre software beta site. Multiboard is currently developing a
- number of applications, and we are looking for some great beta
- testers in order to ensure excellent quality our packages.
-
-
- What are the benefits?
- ═══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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- Some of the benefits of being a beta site include:
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- ■ You will have access to the newest beta versions of the
- products you are testing as soon as they become available.
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- ■ Direct contact with the authors regarding ideas, comments
- or questions in regards to the packages.
-
- ■ You get to see the products develop in a way that can
- be shaped by your comments and suggestions.
-
-
- What do I need?
- ════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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- Some of the requirements are:
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- ■ You are a sysop with a fidonet address
- ■ You will poll our system for your mail regularly
- ■ You will ensure that all messages and files you receive
- from our system remains confidential, this means no
- redistribution, lending of files, or allowing users on
- your system to read the beta echo areas. This also
- means no talk about the betas to anyone via any medium.
- ■ Being actively involved in the beta process, reporting
- any problems and staying current with new beta upgrades.
-
- You should also, of course, have a good working knowledge of your
- system, and either experience with the package you will be testing
- or experience with what it deals with.
-
-
- What are the procedures?
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- Sending in your application is simple:
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- 1) Complete the application form
-
- 2) Send it to us via CRASH netmail to "BETA-APPLY" at
- 1:2401/305, (non-direct fidonet messages will not be
- accepted) or via internet email to beta-apply@mbcc.com
-
- 3) Poll us back for your reply. (We should have an
- answer for you within 3 days, usually the same day)
-
- Once you have been accepted as a beta site, you will be required
- to complete the following steps:
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- 1) Setup the secure password in your mailer setup to ensure
- a secure environment when talking with our system.
-
- 2) Connect to the beta echos related to the packages you
- will be testing. The echo tags are listed in the program
- detail section, and the uplink address is 1:2401/305
-
- 3) Setup your system to poll ours every 3 to 5 days. If you
- are helping debug a serious program bug, you might need
- to poll more frequently.
-
- * NOTE * Optionally we are testing a new application that
- transports fidonet mail over an internet email connection.
- If you have internet email arriving on your board as netmail
- (via a gateway of some type), then ask about setting up this
- package that will eliminate any long distance polls required.
- This however is only for those with non-fidonet internet
- addresses as fidonet.org does not permit file routing.
-
- 4) Make sure that only yourself and co-sysops have access to
- the beta echos on your board, and that downlinks do not
- have permission to request the echos from your system.
-
- 5) Optional: You can pickup an international MCC support
- echo with the tagname MCC_SUPPORT. This echo is for
- public discussion about MCC products (beta discussion
- here is forbidden of course)
-
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- Reporting problems?
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- The main goal of a beta site is to report problems that may be in
- the program BEFORE it is released to the general public.
-
- A good beta site needs to have the ability to provide as much
- information, and possible solutions to problems that may be
- encountered. A simple "it doesn't work" comment cannot help the
- beta development of programs.
-
- When a problem is encounted, you must include information that
- is relaftive to the situation, how you created it, and if you
- can recreate the same error. These reports should be sent via
- echomail, and not netmail, as it allows other beta testers to
- see the problem, provide ideas and possibly stear clear of the
- same problems. If you feel that the problem requires IMMEDIATE
- attention, then post a message in the echomail conference,
- and crash the mail packet to 1:2401/305, accompanied by a quick
- note to us to read the message right away.
-
-
- Available beta products
- ════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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- We currently are looking for new beta members for the following
- product lines:
-
- Product: OLMS/Professional - Offline Mail System
- Echotag: MCC_BETA
- Version: 2.51.b
- Comment: Must be running RemoteAccess/ProBoard
- Desc: OLMS is a QWK/BlueWave compatible maildoor for
- RemoteAccess 2.x and compatible systems. Includes
- many features such as keywords, filters, vacation
- mail and more. 3.0 will be adding support for
- other BBS platforms in early 1996.
-
- Product: iServer - Internet Server Relay
- Echotag: MCC_ISERVER
- Version: 2.5.b
- Comment: Must be getting internet email as fidostyle netmail
- and have a BBS that supports a JAM message base.
- Desc: iServer is an internet mail processor that converts
- gated messages from the netmail format (*.MSG), directly
- into your BBS message base (JAM) as true internet email.
- Many features such as restricting, mailbots, tables,
- limits, message templating and more.
-
- Product: Upcheck - The Premium Upload Scanning System
- Echotag: MCC_UPCHECK
- Version: 6.01.b
- Desc: Upcheck is a file upload scanner that scans for duplicates
- based on CRC, scans for virii using any number of scanning
- packages, deletes unwanted BBS adds, inserts the description
- into your file base, and can recompress in many different
- formats. Many other features such as GIF/JPG resolution
- importing, restricting certain types of files, posting the
- sysop/user status and info messages, and much more. Support
- coming for ANY type of BBS in the new beta versions.
-
- Product: NodeManager - NEW PRODUCT
- Echotag: MCC_NETWORK
- Version: Primary
- Comment: Beta members are required to be running an IPX network
- and have a multiline RemoteAccess 2.x compatible system.
- Desc: NodeManager is a tool that allows a sysop running a
- multiline BBS to handle all of their nodes from a
- single station. See who is on your system from a
- single console, send them messages, kick them off the
- system, etc. If running on an IPX network, you can
- connect to the nodes machine, as if you were sitting
- in front of it, viewing what is on that screen, and
- having control of the remote keyboard. System usage
- reports, graphing, and much more. Currently only
- supports RemoteAccess 2.x, however after it's inital
- public release, a second beta team will be used to
- create versions that support PCB/Wildcat/TriBBS and
- many others.
-
- Product: Transx - NEW PRODUCT
- Echotag: MCC_TRANSX
- Version: Primary
- Comment: Must be able to receive internet as netmail on your
- system (ie being gated from RFC to FTSC format) and
- have an internet address other than a fidonet assigned
- address (ie @f.n.z.fidonet.org)
- Desc: This package will transport fidonet echomail/netmail
- and file attaches from one site to another site via
- the internet (provided both sites are running this
- package of course) Save tons of money on your long
- distance phone bills! This scans your netmail
- folder for outbound mail to listed sites, then
- encodes them and sends them via email, once received
- on the remote site, it decodes the messages and
- restores the echo/net/files to their original state,
- as if you dropped them off directly.
-
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- Application form
- ═════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- Send only the part after the "CUT HERE" message please
-
- --- Cut here ---
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- *** BETA SITE APPLICATION ***
-
- Your Name : ____________________________________ Age: _______ (optional)
-
- BBS Name : ____________________________________ Age: _______
-
- Postal
- Address : __________________________________________________
-
- __________________________________________________
-
- Voice Phone : ___________________________ From ______ to ______ (EST)
-
- BBS Phone : ___________________________ From ______ to ______ (EST)
-
- Mailer session password to setup: ______________________________
-
- The following lists contain two boxes preceeding each entry. Please
- place an asterisk "*" in the first box if you are currently using
- the package for the operation of your BBS, and please rate your
- experience and knowledge of the all the packages you are using or
- have used in the past.
-
- Scale for rating: [ ] - None [P] - Poor
- [G] - Good [E] - Excellent
-
- Operating Systems File Systems
-
- [ ][ ] MSDOS [ ][ ] FAT
- [ ][ ] PCDOS [ ][ ] HPFS
- [ ][ ] NDOS [ ][ ] NTFS
- [ ][ ] 4DOS [ ][ ] _______________
- [ ][ ] SuperDOS
- [ ][ ] MultiDOS Fossil Drivers
- [ ][ ] VMIX
- [ ][ ] DESQview [ ][ ] BNU
- [ ][ ] Windows/WFWG [ ][ ] X00
- [ ][ ] Windows95 [ ][ ] VIOX00
- [ ][ ] WindowsNT [ ][ ] Digiboard
- [ ][ ] OS/2 [ ][ ] None
- [ ][ ] _______________ [ ][ ] _______________
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- Networks Echomail Tossers
-
- [ ][ ] Novell [ ][ ] GEcho
- [ ][ ] Lantastic [ ][ ] FMail
- [ ][ ] Microsoft [ ][ ] FastEcho
- [ ][ ] _______________ [ ][ ] _______________
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- Mail Networks Mail Doors
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- [ ][ ] Multiple Fidostyle [ ][ ] OLMS
- [ ][ ] QWK Networks [ ][ ] JCQWK
- [ ][ ] Direct Internet [ ][ ] SX
- [ ][ ] Fido/Internet Gate [ ][ ] Blue Wave
- [ ][ ] ________________ [ ][ ] _______________
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- BBS Packages Network protocols
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- [ ][ ] RemoteAccess 2.x [ ][ ] NETBIOS
- [ ][ ] RemoteAccess 2.x/Pro [ ][ ] IPX
- [ ][ ] ProBoard [ ][ ] TCP
- [ ][ ] QuickBBS [ ][ ] _______________
- [ ][ ] Maximus
- [ ][ ] PCBoard Beta site for other programs
- [ ][ ] WildCat
- [ ][ ] SpitFire [ ][ ] _______________
- [ ][ ] TriBBS [ ][ ] _______________
- [ ][ ] ________________ [ ][ ] _______________
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-
- Which packages do you wish to apply to become a beta tester for?
-
- [ ] OLMS/Professional - Need 25 more members in early 1996
- [ ] iServer - Open for 2.5
- [ ] Upcheck - Open for 6.01
- [ ] NodeManager - Open for initial version
- [ ] Transx - Open for initial version
-
-
- Other relevant information, suggestions or comments:
-
- ____________________________________________________________
-
- ____________________________________________________________
-
- ____________________________________________________________
-
-
- [ ] I also program applications, utilities, or software related to
- telecommunications, electronic mail, or bulletin board systems.
-
- Comments about the programs, names, etc.
-
- ____________________________________________________________
-
- ____________________________________________________________
-
- ____________________________________________________________
-
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- [ ] I have filled in this application truthfully, to the best of
- my ability, and I agree to the conditions and responsibilities
- of the beta test agreement.
-
- Date: _____________________________
-
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