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 THIS MONTH'S LIST - WASHINGTON D.C.
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Mike Focke has been keeping a list of Washington D.C. bulletin boards for as
long as we've known Washington had any. It is probably one of the most
comprehensive lists in the country and is issued monthly. The list makes the
rounds in the file DCBBmmyy.ZIP where mm is the month and yy is the year. It
is available for download from the INTERCONNECT BBS at (703)425-2505. Focke
has graciously allowed us to reproduce his list herein. Currently, the list
sports some 540 active entries.

Washington D.C. is awash in high tech bandits operating around the beltway
and of course there are a large number of federal government bulletin boards
in the area. The area is also home to the Capitol City User Group which
operates several bulletin boards including a member information exchange at
(703)742-6213. Tom Mack, author of the original RBBS BBS package in the early
'80s designated this user group as the distribution point for his public
domain BBS package. As a result, Washington D.C. is also the capitol of the
world of RBBS software with some 91 systems (16.9%) using this particular
software package to operate. An additional 90 systems use PCBoard software
which is similar in operation.