Jim Harrer, President & CEO Mustang Software, Inc. Bakersfield, CA (805) 395-0223 INTERNET = jim.harrer@mustang.com MCI= MUSTANG CIS= 76004,1552 On October 1, 1993 Mustang Software Inc., the developers of the Wildcat! LAN based Bulletin Board System (BBS) and QmodemPro Communications program will release a new program to link up their popular Wildcat! BBS to the Internet. wcUUCP, an Internet gateway for Wildcat!, was shown for the first time during ONE BBSCON last week to large crowds hungry for this new product. This gateway allows Internet E-Mail as well as Usenet News Groups (Public Mail) to be imported directly into a Wildcat! Bulletin Board System. "We realize there are thousands of people who would like to have access to the Internet for both Public and Private Mail but don't have an easy way to do so. Our new gateway will allow any Wildcat! System Operator (SysOp) to provide easy access to the Internet, to their BBS callers. The end result is, more individual users will have access to the Internet then ever before," said Jim Harrer, Mustang's President & CEO. wcUUCP includes everything the system operator needs to send and retrieve mail from the Internet. All the Sysop needs to do is connect to a Internet Host. Set-up is simple for the Wildcat! System Operator. The BBS actually becomes an Internet site. For example, when Mustang Software's very own BBS was connected to the Internet, it became known as mustang.com (.com means commercial). Now, every user on the BBS has an Internet address. For example, "Rick Heming" as he is registered on MSI HQ BBS now has an Internet address of rick.heming@mustang.com. Now anyone on the Internet can leave messages to rick.heming@mustang.com and the mail will end up in the "UUCP-Email" conference on Mustang's HQ BBS where it will be addressed to "Rick Heming". The interface is completely transparent to the BBS user. They get their mail, just as if it was originated on the BBS. "The Internet is rapidly becoming the standard electronic e-mail highway. Having an address on the Internet basically allows you to communicate with anyone with an e-mail account, even CompuServe, MCI E-Mail and Prodigy users. It's simply awesome," said Harrer. "We estimate over 1 million users log into any one of our 22,000 Wildcat! Bulletin Board Systems worldwide. I suspect many of them will be communicating via the Internet very soon." Mustang's wcUUCP product includes a UUCICO (Unix-to-Unix-Copy-In- Copy-Out) communications program which actually transports the messages to and from the Internet service provider. No additional third party utilities or shareware programs are required, which makes it one of the most complete packages available to BBS operators today. wcUUCP retails for $299.00 and requires Wildcat! version 3 or later. Mustang Software has reduced it to $99 as an introductory price until October 31, 1993. wcUUCP and well as Mustang's entire line of BBS and communications products will also be made available through normal distributor and dealer channels. ---END---