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Hi I run a PCBoard BBS in Indianapolis, and have been running BBS's for
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10 years now. I have one of the origional PCBoard serial numbers, my BBS
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is of good size "18 public nodes, 4 gigs, and around 900 conferences". I
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do know what I am doing. This is not an ad for my BBS, so I will not leave
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a phone number.
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After careful consideration I have come to the conclusion that I should
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warn everyone about Intelec and Cliff Whatkins. I have had numerous
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problems with his flagrant authority and the way he runs his network.
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Cases in point:
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1. I joined his network because he said it was a lot less hassels than
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RIME. I have had more problems with Cliff than anyone else I call
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to run mail with. I was calling him directly to get the Intelec,
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Interzone, and Vnet conferences. I was not allowed to get mail for
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over 2 months because I had an incorrect tag line. I called him
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and left messages on his system for these 2 months trying to get
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back on. He would not do it until he had time to actually verify
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my tag line in my config file for rnet; wouldn't even let me run a
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test message to him to verify it. On top of that I sat here calling
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him at least 24 times, and he was never in. Finally I got him to
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look at my config file and let me back on.
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2. I was notified about 4 weeks ago that he had too many sysops getting
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mail from his system. I was told bluntly to call another system
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of his choosing to get the mail. I was getting about 200 conferences
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from him. I told him it would take me a little while to reconfigure
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rnet for another bbs system. The next day I no longer had access to
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get onto Cliffs BBS. The guy he gave me to does not have the same
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mail door, nor does he have the conferences numbered the same. I
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spent all day Saturday loading new software, getting it to work, and
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matching conference numbers. I was notified by the new guy that
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his system is so busy "SMALL 2 LINES" that I need a time slot to call
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in to get the mail. He also does not carry all of the conferences
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that I picked up from Cliff Watkins at Intelec. I just recieved
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a message from the sysop of the new system that he talked to Cliff
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and Cliff said "TOUGH". So now I have conferences configured on my
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system and have no mail access to update them!!!
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WHAT A CROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you are thinking about joining Intelec, then think twice! This is
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what I just went through and thought that I should warn everyone.
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