Hi Jack,

I wanted to clear up a small error in the February issue and give credit
where it's due. The article on the Home Power Renewable Energy BBS identified
me incorrectly as the sysop of this system. Michael Welch is the sysop of
this system which came online last August.

Interestingly the error wasn't a total mistake. I operate Sonoma Online BBS
in Santa Rosa CA @ (707)545-0746. We've been serving the online community
since 1985 and have a section on alternative energy which is also affiliated
with Home Power Magazine. I'm the founder and moderator of the HOMEPOWR
national echo conference which is on FidoNet backbone distribution system and
available on numerous BBS systems across the U.S. and Canada. Many of the
files mentioned in your article have been posted to this conference which
serves as a general discussion medium on home brewed power. We started the
echo nearly two years ago to spread the word about the viability and
importance of alternative energy systems.

We also offer online the text and graphics of the first ten issues of Home
Power magazine (most of which are now unavailable in print), and have
converted the text files to ASCII (from their native Mac format). We offer
many other AE files which are also carried by many of the systems
participating in the echo and are available for file request to FidoNet
systems (file request AEFILES from 1:125/7 for the list). These were
generously made available to us by the publisher (who is pleased to have an
ecologically benign medium to distribute the information) and may be carried
on any BBS interested in doing so as long as they are not re-printed for
profit. In making these files available via our medium they showed rare
insight as to what we can accomplish online and we're doing what we can to
spread this valuable information far and wide. To date we have had callers
from as far away as India, Israel, Russia and Africa download the information
so it's really getting around to many parts of the globe where they can put
it to good use.

In parting I'd like to thank the Boardwatch crew for putting out a superb
publication which we've found tremendously useful in helping us shape and
define the directions for Sonoma Online. We'd also like to encourage folks to
call and participate in the Home Power Renewable Energy BBS and help it grow.
Michaels done a good job and we wish him and the folks at Redwood Alliance
great success with their endeavor.

 Warm Regards,
 Don Kulha
 Sysop, Sonoma Online BBS 1:125/7
 (707)545-0746 HST/V.32bis
 don.kulha@f7.n125.z1.fidonet.org--