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N O P C C L U B S Y S O P M E M B E R S H I P
New Orleans Personal Computer Club, Inc.
P.O. Box 8364
Metairie LA 70011
BBS: (504)486-7249 (504)486-7261
(504)486-7294 (504)486-7245
Dear SysOp,
Thank you for inquiring about the NOPCC SysOp Membership! The NOPCC
SysOp Membership offers a full featured membership to NOPCC for BBS System
Operators and their spouses. This membership entitles the member to all
Club sponsered meetings and activities, subscription to the monthly club
newsletter, access to the club BBS with FIDO Net Netmail, Conferences and
the latest releases of software distributed by the FIDO Net FILEBONE File
Distribution Network as well as Internet E-Mail and almost 2000 Usenet
Newsgroups, and any discounts offered to club members by Commercial Software
and Hardware Manufacturers and Distributors.
Requirements for NOPC Club Sysop Membership
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BBS Sysop, hereafter refered to as Applicant.
BBS System owned and operated by Applicant, hereafter refered to as the BBS.
New Orleans Personal Computer Club, Inc., herafter refered to as NOPC Club.
1. The Applicant is a bulletin board operator, the Applicant represents and
warrants to NOPC Club that the bulletin board has been in continuous service
for the three (3) month period immediately prior to the Date set forth on the
Application; Applicant further represents and warrants to NOPC Club that the
BBS currently receives a minimum of fifty (50) calls per week and has one
hundred (100) users currently accessing the system. Only fulltime systems
running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week will be qualified. NOPC Club may make
provisions for new boards, solely at the discretion of NOPC Club.**
2. The Applicant will set up a user account to be accessed by officials of
NOPC Club for verification of the BBS and compliance with the duties set forth
in this agreement. Access must allow for regular membership privileges and
access to the list of current system users.
3. Applicant agrees to display a pre-prepared opening logon screen to all
callers to the BBS, exceptions granted only for users using any fast logon
facility provided by the BBS, for every call made to the BBS displaying
information regarding the NOPC Club Meetings. Changes to the pre-prepared
screen format must be approved by NOPC Club.
4. Applicant agrees to logon to the NOPC Club BBS to obtain the current
logon screens and have them in place between the 5th and 10th of each month.
The filename for the current screens will be NOPCSmmy.ZIP, where mm is the
month number as 01 - 12 and y is the year number 0 - 9, example NOPCS035.ZIP
would be the screens for the month of March 1995.
5. The Applicant agrees to perform requirements set forth in sections 3 & 4
prior to acceptance and verification of Application by NOPC Club.
6. The Applicant agrees to complete the BBS Sysop Membership Questionnaire
and return it to NOPCC at one of the following address:
by U.S. Mail:
New Orleans Personal Computer Club, Inc.
Attn: Darin Celino, Sysop Program Director
Post Office Box 8364
Metairie, LA 70011
by Electronic Mail:
FIDO - Darin Celino 1:396/24
Internet - dpaul@bourbon-st.com
Message to Darin Celino in the Sysop Membership Conference
of the NOPC BBS (504)486-7249 (504)486-7261
(504)486-7294 (504)486-7245
NOTE : Do not send password with application in the public Sysop
Membership Conference of NOPC BBS. You will be called for
this information.
7. Applicant acknowledges that NOPC Club is under no obligation to grant
Membership until the Questionnaire has been received and qualified by
NOPC Club and that NOPC Club can cancel membership at any time for any
of the following reasons: reports that the BBS is not displaying the NOPC
Club logon screen as set forth in parts 3 and 4 of this aggreement by any
official or member of NOPC Club, format of the BBS changes or is found to
contain a format not acceptable to the officials of NOPC Club, or no
reason at all. Application for readmittance to the Sysop Membership
program will not be granted for at least 90 days after an involuntary
cancellation.
**For a new BBS (i.e. those that have not yet been operational for
at least 3 months) to be considered for qualification for a Sysop
membership, the BBS must at least already be fully operational with
it's own dedicated phone line and be running a registered version of
a qualified BBS software package. NOPC Club may request proof of BBS
software registration as well as copies of phone bills or other
documentation as needed to substantiate proof of BBS's operation.
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(Send this section to NOPC Club)
Questionnaire Bulletin Board Operator/SYSOP Membership
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Return to:
New Orleans Personal Computer Club, Inc.
Attn: Darin Celino, Sysop Program Director
P.O. BOX 8364
Metairie, LA 70011
OR
At one of the Online
Addresses Provided Above
Application Date:___/__/___
___New Member ___Renewal Membership #:______ Expire Date:___/__/___
Spouse's Membership #:______ Expire Date:___/__/___
Bulletin Board Name________________________________________________
SYSOP Name________________________________________________
First Name for ID Badge______________________________
Spouses Name________________________________________________
First Name for ID Badge______________________________
Address________________________________________________
City/State/Zip________________________________________________
Voice Phone ( )__________________________Age:__________________
Business Phone ( )____________________Extension:__________________
BBS Phone(s) ( )________________________________________________
BULLETIN BOARD INFORMATION
General format of information/services provided by the Bulletin Board:
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
Public or Private Access System?_____________________________________
Which operating system does the BBS use?(DOS, WIN, DV, OS/2, LAN, etc)
_____________________________________________________________________
What BBS software is used?___________________________________________
How long has the BBS been in service?________________________________
How many lines are currently dedicated to the BBS?___________________
Are there any periods of time where BBS is down for routine
maintenance (netmail processing, etc)? If so, please list these
periods so we do not attempt to verify during those hours:
_____________________________________________________________________
Average number of calls received per month:__________________________
Approximate number of users:_________________________________________
So that we may call into the system YOU MUST PROVIDE AN ESTABLISHED
ACCOUNT. Your request will not be processed unless you provide us
a pre-established LOGON. Please set up an account with the following
User Name and enter a Unique Password. Please make sure that this
account has access to all information required for SYSOP Membership
to the New Orleans Personal Computer Club.
User Name: NOPC CLUB
PASSWORD: ___________