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+==============================================================================+ | | | _____ _ _ __ __ | | ___ ____ / ___/____ ____ ___ ____ (_)___ _/ | / /__ / /_ | | / _ \/ __ \\__ \/ __ \/ __ `__ \/ __ \/ / __ `/ | / / _ \/ __/ | | / __/ / / /__/ / /_/ / / / / / / / / / / /_/ / /| / __ / /_ | | \___/_/ /_/____/\____/_/ /_/ /_/_/ /_/_/\__,_/_/ |_/\___/\__/ | | | | EnSomnia ~ Midnight BBS | | | +==============================================================================+ | Path: seismo!rochester!ucbvax!decvax!ensomnia!bbsghost | | Newsgroups: net.misc, net.news, net.micro | | Subject: Late-Night Log-on & the Ever-Growing Newsgroup Lists | | Message-ID: <830628.0317.ensomnia!bbsghost> | | Date: Tue Jun 28 03:17:12 1983-GMT | | Organization: EnSomnia Midnight BBS (300/1200 baud, 8-N-1) | +==============================================================================+ |Howdy, fellow keyboard insomniacs! | | | |Just wrapped a six-hour dive through the dial-up maze and figured I'd drop a | |note before the coffee wears off. Ever since I rigged the old Apple II with a | |Hayes 300 and a home-brew acoustic coupler for my TRS-80 Model 100, I've been | |hopping between local boards and the UUCP backbone, chasing every scrap of net| |wisdom I can snarf. | | | |Tonight's haul: a *fresh* full-feed list of active newsgroups courtesy of the | |folks at seismo. I swear the thing's doubling every quarter now—net.micro.*, | |net.graphics.*, and even a shiny net.muse.* breaking ground for music hackers.| | | |Notes for the curious: | | - Requesting the list: if you're on UUCP, | | `uucp seismo!~/info/active ./` pulls the current "active" file. | | Stuck in plain BBS land? Drop a note here on EnSomnia and I'll XMODEM the | | latest copy. | | | | - Proposed groups: there's chatter about spinning up `net.bbs` for sysop | | tricks, FidoNet gateways, and the art of keeping twin eight-inch floppies | | alive past their warranty. Vote "yes" in `net.news.groups` if you'd like | | to see it happen. | | | | - Etiquette refresher: compress posts to save phone bills. Run `pack` or | | `compress` before flinging multi-K source dumps; the rest of us are paying| | Ma Bell by the minute. Clip quotes, too—no one enjoys scrolling through. | | 200 lines just to read a three-word reply. | | | |Anyone rocking something faster than 1200 yet? Rumor says 2400-baud prototypes| |exist, but they're priced like a used VW. Share benchmarks or war stories; | |some of us are plotting upgrades before the next phone bill induces cardiac | |arrest. | | | |Catch you in the BBS! Keep those carrier tones singing and the parity | |errors at bay. | | | |-- EnSomnia Midnight BBS | |uucp: ...!decvax!ensomnia!bbsghost | |"The night belongs to modems." | +==============================================================================+