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|| T.Y.M.E. - Twisted Young Minds Expand || # 17, by v<>r<EFBFBD>s || 10/??/94 ||
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vYrus' BBS Guide
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Well, this is for all the people that suck at BBSing and have been stupid
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enuff to get themselves blacklisted, (you know who i mean, napalm) and i
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hope that you all manage to make some sense. It is divided into a couple
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of parts, Newusers, Messages, Files, The Sysop, and Etiquette (whatever
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that means. =] ). Enjoy..
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New Users
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Being a new user is easy. If you can meet the Sysop's standard of a new
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user. Use at least TWO peices of real info. I would recommend a first name
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and a phone number. I know half the 'ELiTE' (god i hate that word) BBSers
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would look at me like i belong in Napa State (Hospital) because 'what kind
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of fool gives out their phone number?' Well, for one, unless you have the
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type of person in your town that can find out every piece of info about you
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just by your phone number, give them your data number so it just rings and
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rings and rings.. =] Most Sysops want voice validation, that's how we do
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it over at <20>x<EFBFBD>dus BBS (707-935-6867 =] ) and anyone who can't prove they're
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a real person and not some lamer using multiple handles (which is a no-no
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anyway) gets deleted on the spot. So a number and at least a first name
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will satisfy most.
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Don't bullshit through NUV Infoforms. If you see ANI, and you don't know
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what it mean, then say exactly that! You don't know! Don't put some bull-
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shit like Assholes Need Intelligence. That can bring down your marks with
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the Sysop. Nobody wants smartasses.
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Last, don't insult the sysop in new user applications. We saw one dude
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log on and leave this message:
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hey i hack for -$50 an hour if that isnt good enough then fuck you
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Not too appropriate, eh? If you guessed this guy was deleted on the spot,
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yer right. Not a letter to impress anyone.
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Message Bases
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Anyone who has been BBSing for any amount of time past the lamer 3 months
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that most 'Christmas Modemers' last can tell you that message bases can be
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the core a of a great BBS. Before i became a sysop of Exodus, i called it
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only for messages, and i kept my personal file ratios at a 2:1. Beat that.
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More on files later, but message can help ya meet new people, get you new
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friends, new enemies, and new information. Before i went into posting on
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the FX-Net (also known as the Kurt Cobain-Net) everyone there had an op-
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inion on every message posted, so you had to watch yourself. It was later
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nicknamed the 'Kurt Cobain-Net' because after he killed himself, the entire
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net went up in flames. Quite literally. The whole of every base erupted in
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to a flame war. You could read the 'Software Developments' section and some
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dude would have written a Kurt Cobain trivia program. Which set off this 1
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annoying little mutherfukker, Skywalker. It's lamers like these that
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pollute our systems. He had to direct every conversation towards 'Kurt
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NoBrain'. Of course, this earned him little respect, and although i never
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heard what happened to him, i think he eventually dropped out of the BBS
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scene. Haha. What a loser.
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But in posting messages, if the software has a quote function, USE IT!
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No one will have any fucking clue what you're talking about unless you
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quote the person you're replying to anyway. That also helps you stay on
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track of whatever subject you are all arguing/talking/discussing about. It
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also helps to keep any unwanted lamers from interrupting your train of
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thought because without quoting, you wouldn't have any idea what the person
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was saying, either. So use it. In most ANSi fullscreen editors it's '/Q',
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or just find out what it is.
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File Areas
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A BBS can also be known for it's extensive fileareas. Boards with CD-ROMs
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usually attract the most attention, and it's those kind of boards that most
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of the time, the sysop doesn't care about people downloading a lot, or it's
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the sysop that complains that people download too much. Hey, if they adver-
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tise it, LEECH IT! Hell, don't bother if they complain at you. Tell 'em!
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If the ad where you saw the BBS says '1.2+ gigs online!' then hold them to
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it. Don't expect a bunch of shit from the sysop for being a leech. If he
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wants uploads, upload a .GIF. Make sure that it isn't THAT poorly scanned,
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or else he/she/they/it might just go off again. Quality .GIF's can be found
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in boards all over. Not mine, though, just text here.
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Some boards will also have themes in them. Like Meidivel (sp?) stuff
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.GIF's only of just text or whatnot. Maybe even a board devoted to ONE
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software company (i.e. Apogee's Support BBS) or it can be a customer
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service board. (i.e. USR's Service Board) Any way it goes, each BBS has
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it's own blend of files.
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Ratios are mantained by many sysops. A 10:1 ratio would mean that for
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every ten files you download, you are expected/required to upload one. Some
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boards have ul/dl K ratio. K being Kilobytes, aka, file sizes. So a 10:1
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ratio in this case would mean for every 10k you download, upload 1k. You
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know how it goes.
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SysOps
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Key rule for surviving in a BBS community : don't piss off a Sysop. Most
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likely they will have some sort of connection to get you fucked up. Kiss
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their ass if you have to, most of 'em love that, especially Power Rat. =]
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Treat 'em like they were a normal person, another user you're leaving notes
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to. Treat his system like it was your system, nobody likes it if their fave
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BBS crashes, and you'll be losing out too. Just because you hate a system,
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doesn't mean you destroy it with flame wars or virii or whatnot. Some of
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your BEST friends could use the same BBS and would be mad as hell if it
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went down. I should know. I would crash Total Anarchy once in awhile so
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that it went down for a couple hours, but it was nothing permenent. And
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since i was Co-Sys (Co-Sysop) people called me demanding to know what hap-
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pened.. so I told them i had no clue. =]
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To sum it up : A Sysop is just an user with higher privledges then you.
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Pure and Simple. So don't blow it. Like that dude's newuser message, don't
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get 'em mad. =]
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Etiquette (what's that?)
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Etiquette is basically how you're supposed to act on a BBS. Like be cool
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while writing message, don't be a dick, treat the Sysop like he was your
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best bud, and don't do anything that would seriously annoy somebody or
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damage the system. I know i prolly already said all that, but i'm bored and
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i need to keep writing.. =]
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Closing
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Guess that's it... enjoy... and if someone you know just got a modem for
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their birthday or something, give them this guide. Maybe i will write up
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another one for getting through Renegade.. seems to be a popular software.
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What the hell. It's the best. =]
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v<>r<EFBFBD>s
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|| Look for T.Y.M.E. on any of the follwing boards: (and get them all! =] ||
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|| Under The Influence...........(ALM)OST-HERE.............World HQ....... ||
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|| Narkotik Illusions............(303)PRI-VATE.............Midwestern HQ.. ||
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|| Exodus BBS....................(707)935-6867.............Distro Site.... ||
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|| Electric Rush (NuP)...........(707)257-7208.............Distro Site.... ||
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|| Leave comments, death threats, ideas to vYrus/napavalley@nova.fred.org ||
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|| 'Life is an Illusion, Death is Reality' ||
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