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º AMERICAN BBS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL OFFICE ÷ DAYTON, OHIO º
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º December 15, 1993 º
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þ HAPPY HOLIDAYS .....
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Best wishes for a most joyous holiday season from the ABBSA National Office.
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þ 1993 COMING TO A CLOSE .....
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We are about to close a VERY successful year for ABBSA, and I want to
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express my thanks to a number of people who have worked very hard for the
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organization over the past year:
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James Myrick, Sherry Wilson & Peggy Osborne of WIN Systems and
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the Dayton Boardwalk BBS, who pitched in with getting things organized
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and up to date here when we took over as National Coordinator & moved
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the National Office to Dayton from Birmingham, AL.
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Rocky & Janet Rawlins, and Tom Egan, of the MATRIX in
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Birmingham who brought ABBSA along from the very beginning; and really
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did most of the HARD work bringing the organization to where it is
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today (and continue doing so in collecting new applications to this
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day).
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Kyle Hufford of The Magick Cauldron BBS (SW Region, Ohio
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Chapter), our ABBSA-Net National Nodelist Coordinator for his efforts
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in organizing & maintaining ABBSA-Net.
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Bill Webb of the Spider's Lair (IL State Chairman) and Mike
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Nelson of the Type Too! Basement (SW OH Regional Chairman) for their
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recruiting efforts in bringing in new members like magnets!
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... and to the other State & Regional Chairmen, for their
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efforts. The backbone of ABBSA is the State Chapters & the Regions
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within the chapters ... without which none of this works.
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þ MEMBERSHIP .....
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This has been another strong month as ABBSA continues to grow. 2 new
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Chapters, and 31 new member boards have been added in the past 30 days. We now
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have 390 Member Boards that make up 47 Chapters in the United States, Canada,
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Puerto Rico, and Central America.
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***** VIRUS ALERT ***** VIRUS ALERT ***** VIRUS ALERT **** VIRUS ALERT *****
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þ SuperBBS SysOps: Be on the alert for a file named SBBSWARN.ZIP! As reported
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in the National Support Echo, this file ... which reports to fix a bug in the
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Super BBS system ... ACTUALLY CONTAINS A *TROJAN* that will do extensive
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damage.
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þ STATE & REGIONAL CHAIRMEN NEEDED .....
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There are a number of states without a State Chairman! If your state is one
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of these and you would like to take on the job, please contact us at the
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National Office.
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þ NATIONAL SUPPORT ECHO & ABBSA-Net .....
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For distribution of the National Support Echo Conference, and as a means of
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communication among Member Boards, in October we created ABBSA-Net for echoing
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and messaging via front-end mailers in addition to the availability of the
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echo via QWK message packets. In this regard we are still looking for regional
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and state hubs. If you would be interested in taking on one of these, please
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contact us at the National Office. The network is growing since its inception
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in October, and with your help we hope to be able to complete the basic link-
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ups by the end of December. For convenience, the latest copy of the nodelist
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is now included in the monthly ABBSA*.ZIP file. We also received a letter
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which asked why we were not pursuing RIME and RelayNet for the echo. Actually,
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we have sent messages to the RIME Steering Committee but had not received
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any responses to our messages until just yesterday (12/14). If there is a
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Member Board who is a RelayNety site andwould be willing to pass the echo to
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Relaynet, please let us know at National. We are also looking for someone
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willing to pass the National Support Echo to Intelec. The conference is
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already established there, but has been pretty much inactive since we lost the
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connection that had been passing the echo. For more information about
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ABBSA-Net, see the file ABBSANET.TXT in the ABBSA012.ZIP archive.
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þ LATEST ABBSA FILES AVAILABLE .....
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Just a reminder ... the latest updates of all ABBSA files available for
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distribution are always available from us through our BBS, the Dayton
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BOARDWALK (513-228-1020). Member SysOps have full access on the first call
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so that they can download files as needed. All ABBSA files are also available
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for file request (FREQ) by SysOps with front-end capability. We also have
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screens for State & Regional Chairmen. If you want the Chairman Screens,
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contact us at the National Office.
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þ SPEAKING OF FILES .....
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If you have any older ABBSA*.* files on your board, please purge the old
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ones as each monthly archive of the ABBSA files contains the -current- files.
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þ NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP LIST .....
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Finally, again, the National Membership List included in the file
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ABBSA012.ZIP -SHOULD- be up-to-date and include all applications received as
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of 12/13/93. If you have mailed in an application and ARE NOT included in the
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new National Membership List, please contact us so that we can make resolve
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the matter. If you appear in the National Membership List, but have not
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received a membership letter ... DON'T PANIC! We are behind in getting the
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letters sent out; However if it has been over 90 days and you still have not
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received your letter, please contact us at the National Office so we can check
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on it.
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ð As always, we are ready and willing to assist you in any way, but remember ...
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it is the State Chapters and their Regions that make up the ABBSA and we
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encourage all to take an active part in their respective Chapters to the
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fullest extent possible.
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John Kay
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National Coordinator
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* NATIONAL ABBSA CONTACTS:
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ABBSA National Office
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(Voice) (513) 225-3087; (513) 545-1093
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(Fido) 1:110/750
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(Internet) ac038@dayton.wright.edu
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(ABBSA-Net) 117:117/0
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(BBS) (513) 228-1020 (Conference 27)
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Mailing address: American BBS Association National Office
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% Westlake Information Systems
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2603 N. Main Street
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Dayton, OH 45405
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The ABBSA National Support Conference is accessible for messages or echoing
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(via QWK or front-end mailer) from the Dayton BOARDWALK BBS, Dayton, OH at:
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2400-14400 (513) 228-1020 Conference 36
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(American BBS Association and ABBSA are Service Marks of)
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( the American BBS Association (1992) )
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