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                   Sysop's Introduction to Northwest Link
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  Let's face it!  Life in the Pacific NorthWest is different than anywhere
  else.   We have  common interests,  a great  quality  of  life,  and the
  greatest people  on the planet.   We need a netmail system  just for us.
  Hence the creation of NorthWest Link.

  First, you must be  able to handle  QWK/REP compatible  net mail on your
  system.   Programs such  as Qnet, Tnet, etc  will handle the  exporting/
  importing of messages betwwen your BBS and your hub.   If you are a hub,
  you will  need a mail  door program  such  as QMail,  TomCat,  MarkMail,
  Cam-Mail, etc so any BBS below you can transfer messages with you.

  Second,  you must  be willing to  maintain a  new net  mail  system.  We
  will never have thousands of messages per day, but we will have messages
  that are  from local users and BBS's.   Mail transfers  using  automated
  systems such as Robocomm  and Telix scripts are extremely easy,  and are
  preferred. 

  There will be NO heavy  policing of conferences  and there  will be only
  ONE administration and TWO public conferences that  must be carried.  No
  aliases,  no profanity or vulgarity,  no personal  attacks, stay  within
  conference topic.   Other than that, you're on your own.

  Northwest Link is very favorable to requests for additional conferences.
  We realize that not every  conference will have mail  daily, but only as
  needed.   We don't  believe in  deleting a  conference  just  because it
  didn't get 100 messages that month.   A conference should be there to be
  used as needed and when it is needed.

  More conferences as we grow!

  How do you join?   It's easy.   Fill  out a  NorthWest Link  Application
  form and  post it AS A SYSOP COMMENT  (private message  to the Sysop) in
  the main message  area of a BBS belonging to NorthWest Link.  That sysop
  will forward  the application  to the NorthWest Link Steering Committee.
  Or you can post the  application directly into the NWL ADMIN conference.
  You will be assigned to use a NWL member board as your "hub". That board
  will take your  messages and add them to other messages and transfer (by
  high-speed modems) those messages to the NetHub.   Every  time  you call
  your hub, you will pick up new mail that is from the rest of the network
  and place it on your BBS.

  Come join us on a great net just for us.

  Last Revised: 10 Jan 1994