Hello Jack:

I buy your magazine monthly at a local stand and have always found it filled
with valuable info. I was especially pleased to see the article about Eastern
and Central European Networking. An artist friend and user of my BBS was
forced to flee Poland in the seventies and came to the US to teach and
produce and exhibit his internationally respected art works. I try to cater
the BBS to artists and musicians here in Austin, Texas as I also teach in the
Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. My
Polish friend and his wife will be very happy to see the contacts listed for
getting Internet mail into their homeland.

I have a bone to pick though Jack. Your magazine seems almost to deny the
existence of Amiga based BBSs. Pair O Dice BBS is running on an Amiga 3000
using Prospective Software's CNet BBS software, Matthew Dillon's Amiga UUCP,
and Brian Clark's CNet <-> UUCP shell. In an article that mentions that there
isn't even an implemation to use UUCP with Wildcat! or Major how about
mentioning Amiga's CNet and DLG that *do* at this time!

I was happy to see in the January Issue that a lot of the New Zealand boards
listed were Amiga supporting or based. How about the rest of us. I am not a
rabid Amiga user or supporter like you are likely to run into on the nets, I
also use a AST 386 notebook to connect from my office at school to the
universities UNIX machines and out through the Internet as well as locally
calling home to check up on Pod. I'm just an artist that happens to like the
capabilities of the Amiga and find it a fine machine to use. I do admit that
the support CBN is fubar and hellish to the extreme, but it is the fine user
base that keeps the machine afloat.

Jack, thanks again for the wonderful work you do for the online community
with Boardwatch! Give us a call sometime down here. Pair O Dice can be
reached at 1.512.451.7117 at 14.4k connected to a HST DS or the slower
callers can get to us at 1.512.451.4610. We offer a lot of original graphics
and sound files, as well as a sampling of about 40 USENET groups at this time
and full uucp mail. Online games, chat, local messages and more at *no* cost
to our fine users.

Best regards and dreams always,

 Bob Anderson
 Sysop of Pair O Dice
 bazooka@well.sf.ca.us

 Bob:

Amiga BBSs? There are bulletin boards for Amigas?

 Jack Rickard