ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» º ÇÄ¿ º K E E P I N G I N T O U C H º ³ º ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ º ³ º SPITFIRE Monthly Support Newsletter º ³ º for registered SPITFIRE Sysops! º ³ º January 1995 º ³ º Compliments of BUFFALO CREEK SOFTWARE º ³ º Buffalo Creek's BBS * 515-225-8496 º ³ º 38400/19200/9600/2400/1200 Bps º ³ º 2 Nodes º ³ º º ³ ÈÍÑÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ Edited by Jacque Shipley The Mother Board BBS - (515) 986-3464 - 57600 Bps Sysop Of The Month by Walt Crede Roam This Fertile Land - (515) 288-8755 - 14400 Bps Newly Registered SPITFIRE BBS List by Ann Woltz Other Contributions As Noted Best wishes for a Happy New Year to all SPITFIRE Sysops! ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» º Notes from the author of SPITFIRE! ÇÄ¿ ÈÍÑÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͸ ³ SPITFIRE REGISTERED BBS STATISTICS ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; Listed below are the active registered SPITFIRE boards state by state and country by country. We are providing the number of SPITFIRE boards per state/country which were active at the end of 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994 for comparison purposes. These statistics may not be 100% accurate but they are compiled using the most up to date information that we have. These statistics are arrived at by using only those boards operating with SPITFIRE v3.4 and SPITFIRE v3.5. So in other words, we assume any Sysop who has not upgraded to v3.4 or v3.5 are no longer operating a board or is no longer operating SPITFIRE. Therefore those boards are not calculated in this data even though we are aware of some SPITFIRE boards operating with older versions. Year of 1994 __________________1991_1992_1993_1994 * Amount Increased AE................ 0 5 6 7 1 AP................ 0 11 8 12 4 Alaska............ 14 18 20 19 Decreased Alabama........... 7 11 13 22 9 Arkansas.......... 12 11 10 13 3 Arizona........... 40 51 61 57 Decreased California........ 105 134 150 158 8 Colorado.......... 5 4 7 13 5 Connecticut....... 15 19 24 21 3 Delaware.......... 17 31 28 27 Decreased Florida........... 46 70 80 96 16 Georgia........... 18 25 34 38 2 Hawaii............ 0 3 4 5 1 Iowa.............. 38 49 66 79 13 Idaho............. 8 12 14 17 3 Illinois.......... 50 80 84 86 3 Indiana........... 19 27 43 57 14 Kansas............ 13 23 24 26 2 Kentucky.......... 5 22 26 34 8 Louisiana......... 21 33 44 50 16 Massachusetts..... 15 12 20 22 2 Maryland.......... 11 16 14 15 1 Maine............. 18 34 33 27 Decreased Michigan.......... 17 25 32 33 1 Minnesota......... 4 9 15 16 1 Missouri.......... 14 21 28 38 10 Mississippi....... 9 11 11 17 6 Montana........... 2 4 4 9 3 North Carolina.... 19 26 34 52 18 North Dakota...... 1 2 1 0 Decreased Nebraska.......... 24 26 31 39 8 New Hampshire..... 1 2 9 14 5 New Jersey......... 16 25 28 33 5 New Mexico........ 4 7 8 10 2 Nevada............ 34 43 35 31 Decreased New York.......... 31 40 37 54 17 Ohio.............. 34 52 64 77 13 Oklahoma.......... 10 11 21 23 2 Oregon............ 10 23 31 38 7 Pennsylvania...... 30 45 64 62 Decreased Rhode Island...... 5 11 8 7 Decreased South Carolina.... 16 12 13 20 7 South Dakota...... 6 5 6 7 1 Tennessee......... 9 11 19 29 10 Texas............. 65 119 136 145 9 Utah.............. 5 5 4 6 2 Virginia.......... 15 23 29 29 No Change Washington........ 18 33 27 30 3 West Virginia..... 6 5 4 4 No Change Wisconsin......... 12 20 24 28 4 Wyoming........... 0 2 6 8 2 Argentina......... 0 0 1 0 Decreased Australia......... 11 7 7 13 6 Belgium........... 0 0 1 1 No Change Brazil............ 1 1 2 2 No Change Canada............ 89 116 148 153 5 Central America... 0 0 0 1 1 England........... 7 13 9 8 Decreased France............ 7 16 18 18 No Change Germany........... 0 0 2 2 No Change Greece............ 0 0 1 1 No Change Guam.............. 1 3 10 7 Decreased Iceland........... 0 0 1 1 No Change Israel............ 1 1 1 1 No Change Italy............. 1 1 2 1 Decreased Liechtenstein..... 0 0 1 1 No Change Netherlands....... 9 13 12 9 Decreased New Zealand....... 14 17 8 10 2 Portugal.......... 2 7 12 8 Decreased Puerto Rico....... 5 4 7 6 Decreased Scotland.......... 1 1 1 2 1 Saudia Arabia..... 0 0 2 4 2 Singapore......... 0 1 0 0 No Change South Korea....... 0 0 1 1 No Change Virgin Islands.... 0 0 1 1 No Change Venezuela......... 0 0 0 1 1 West Indies....... 0 1 0 1 No Change Canada, bragging about 153 active SPITFIRE boards, nearly passed the great state of California, bragging about 158 active SPITFIRE boards. Let's not forget 3rd place Texas, bragging about 145 active SPITFIRE boards. We feel it is important to note that SPITFIRE has been registered 3346 times and according to our information 2014 of these boards are still active. If my calculations are correct, this means there is a 60.2% success rate among SPITFIRE Sysops. ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͸ ³ >>>>> SFNET REPORT <<<<< ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; SFNET Secretary is going to provide you with various facts and figures regarding SFNET in the newsletter so I am not going to go into that kind of detail. I will, however, take this opportunity to thank all SPITFIRE/SFNET Sysops for the time, effort and expense which is put into SFNET on a regular basis. Without their efforts, SFNET would not be successful. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all SFNET Conference Moderators for the job which they perform. Moderating a conference is not an easy job and I surely appreciate the job which they perform. A special thanks to moderator Dean Gill since his duties go a bit beyond (smiling) the normal moderators duties. I would like to thank Tom Lehner for the job he has performed as our SFNET Regional Coordinator. Tom has performed his job well and has withstood the test of time. We would be remiss if we didn't extend a special thank you to our SFNET Secretary (and my good friend) Jacque Shipley. Last and surely not least, our callers who participate in SFNET deserve a GREAT BIG thank you. Jacque and I have both noticed an increase in our callers participation in SFNET. I think this is wonderful. So thanks to everyone who has helped make SFNET a mail system which most SPITFIRE Sysops (and their families) can be proud. I confident that we can work together during the year of 1995 and make SFNET even better ... Thank you. Until next time, may God bless you... Mike, Ann & family ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» º Jesus saith unto him, I am the ÇÄ¿ º way, the truth and the life... º ³ º John 14:6 º ³ ÈÍÑÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͸ ³ SFNET - A YEAR END REVIEW ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; It is difficult to look back on the accomplishments of 1994 without reflecting on the amazing achievements of SFNET. The announcement in the June newsletter to start a SPITFIRE 'Exclusive' Mail System was made in direct response to interest expressed by numerous SPITFIRE Sysops. SFNET was organized at that time with the intent of providing these Sysops and their callers a mail system where they could share ideas, seek and/or offer assistance to one another, and generally promote a POSITIVE exchange of messages between SPITFIRE Bulletin Board Systems. Another primary objective of SFNET was to give the Sysops a voice in the direction of this new mail system. Within just weeks of the announcement, SFNET witnessed its first mail runs on June 15th. It is important to remember that in addition to starting a new mail system, SFNET was premiering Buffalo Creek Software's QWK Mail software package, SHILOH. Thus, exercising some caution, SFNET began with only 10 conferences. Nothing short of amazing can describe the initial success of SFNET and SHILOH and, within the first week, another 15 conferences were added. By July, in just two weeks time, there were 76 nodes actively participating in SFNET. From that point on, the growth of SFNET continued on a scale that not even the most optimistic projections could have forseen. This is not to say that SFNET, like any new venture, did not experience some 'growing pains' in the early stages of its development. However, it appears that these hurdles subsided as the intent and direction of SFNET became firmly established. Perhaps the greatest tribute to attest to the maturing of SFNET is the recent transition of stepping beyond merely being a Sysop mail system. SFNET has evolved into a mail system where the BBS callers are becoming involved and actively participating in conference discussions (the exception, of course, is conference topics limited to or targeted specifically for Sysops). The number of Message Conferences topics available on the SFNET mail system was expanded to 49 conferences. And although, there are suggestions for new conferences pending, the current focus of SFNET is not to randomly add new conferences but rather to replace topics having minimal participation. For instance, the Photography conference was just recently reassigned the topic of Current Events. As for messages, since its beginning, there have been 84,571 messages which passed through SFNET's International Hub. For the statistical minded, the conference break down is as follows: SPITFIRE Question & Answers 10,101 SPITFIRE 3rd Party Programs 3,329 SFNET Business 8,692 Sysops Helping Sysops 10,614 Cooking & Recipes 1,477 Legal Discussions 709 Genealogy 426 Wanted/For Sale/Trade 3,498 BBS Ads 1,202 Young Peoples Chat 8,439 Front End Programs 485 Pascal Programming 461 C Programming 425 Arts, Crafts & Hobbies 731 Microsoft Windows 914 Ham Radio 1,151 Gardening 333 Graphics 344 OS2 484 Local Area Networks 249 General Religion (previously Financial Management) 375 BBS Doors 2,567 SHILOH Support 2,168 Offline Readers 861 Christianity 3,299 Military Personnel 838 Modems 1,243 Photography 237 BASIC Programming 591 DOS Discussions 1,155 Flight Simulator 479 Computer Virus 313 CD-Rom 986 Home Improvement 279 Senior Citizens 419 Sound Cards 288 Music 2,300 Science Fiction 1,378 Sports 775 Women Issues 243 Men Issues 532 Missing Children 259 Changing Work Environment 92 Common/General Chat 6,261 Physically Challenged 144 Education/Teachers 141 Family Matters 330 Moderators 1,407 Writers 547 Mike Woltz can be very proud of the accomplishments of SFNET! Not only is SFNET the mail system that SPITFIRE Sysops were seeking, but SHILOH efficiently handles the daily mail transfers from node to node without a hitch! Thank you Mike, for a job well done! The opportunity is also taken at this time to extend a special thank you to each of the conference host/moderators. They volunteer their time to monitor conference activity on a daily basis. In addition, they greet participants, stimulate discussion, and when necessary ensure the guidelines are followed. Your efforts are to be commended! But perhaps the true measure of SFNET's success is seen in the node list. The January Node List shows that there are now 347 SPITFIRE systems which offer SFNET on their BBS. And it is these nodes which are SFNET's greatest asset. It is the individual nodes, the individual BBSes whose contribution is responsible for the success which SFNET has achieved. For indeed they are SFNET! And without their participation and support of SFNET none of this would be possible. Thanks to each of you and may you and SFNET continue to prosper in 1995. ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͸ ³ ONE LESS STAR SHINES IN TEXAS ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; I first "met" Sonny Grisom when he called me for advice on SPITFIRE and how easy it was to run. Within two weeks Sonny had sent in his registration and was picking my brain on how to set things up. However in a short time he was blowing my little BBS away. The Old Poops World became a top Dallas area bulletin board. Last year in a poll it was named the most popular board in the area ... no mean feat in an area (Dallas/Ft. Worth) which claims over 300 BBS's monthly! However Sonny even made that honor a joy. He often gave claim for his board's success to Hattie, the little pig that greeted you on his BBS. Whether it was having a rich file base or adding new message areas (he was the the second SFNet node in the 214 area code!), Sonny wanted his users to have fun. Perhaps that is why his BBS was known for the online door games. When I got the word Thursday that Sonny passed on from a heart attack, I was shocked. How could this man be taken from us? However, I am comforted by my faith that Sonny was merely called to run a really BIG BBS for the ultimate sysop. Sonny, if you're reading this, a man's worth is truly measured by the people he touches; there is no figure for the worth you left behind. ... Sh'ma Yisrael: Hashem elohenu, Hashem echad! Article Contributed by Bobb Waller FIAWOL/MSConnections * (214) 790-6472 ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͸ ³ SPITFIRE DOOR REVIEW - PYRAMID ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; It's OOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTT!!!! Tim Ward has released his Pyramid Door Game as a New Year's present to us all. Pyramid is not a revolutionary new concept in a door game. It's the classic solitaire pyramid card game done exceptionally well. TPYRAMID*.* is the file of the shareware version. For once, Tim has slightly crippled a program of his...and is apologizing all over the place! The shareware version doesn't allow all the options in the door, but is completely playable. However, the game can be registered for only $10 and the same key will register future doors as well. What a bargain!! Now, let me give you a brief history of a Beta tester. Tim Ward made the mistake of giving me his voice phone number some time back. We were discussing Tim's first attempt at writing a door. I whined that I really missed a pyramid-style door game that I used to play on a Wildcat board. Unfortunately, it was buggy and the Sysop removed it about the time I was completely hooked. Lo and behold, this was exactly what Tim had started! I whined some more and was on the Beta team! When I saw the config file, I really thought that I had over-matched myself. Don't let it scare you. It just LOOKS complicated. Much to my surprise, I went breezing right through it and had the door up and running in a matter of minutes. The early versions did have a few problems. Tim hung right in there and fixed them just as fast as they were reported. I had an entirely different problem. I was totally addicted to the game. Other Beta testers have reported the same symptoms. There wasn't time to make new screens, answer messages or set up utilities. I had to play Pyramid!! I eventually set the game down to only allow three games per day. THEN I found myself logging on under fictitious names to play some more!! More than one user has been booted off my system because I wanted to play Pyramid!! It wasn't long before my users were experiencing the same symptoms! The door is gaining in popularity all the time. It is already in my top 5 doors and I never mentioned it to my general users. Tim Ward has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing excellent utilities for SPITFIRE. He's continuing this reputation with his Pyramid door. Tim gives superb support for his products and is available on just about every mail network around including our very own SFNet. Article contributed by Della Moore Moore Fun BBS - (417) 886-4051 ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͸ ³ SPITFIRE BOARD-OF-THE-MONTH ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; Tom Miller The Swamp Thang BBS (504) 347-8152 I sat down at my keyboard today (just like I do every morning), logged onto our BBS and downloaded a QWK Mail packet to read at the office. Upon looking at the messages there it was--a message from Mike Woltz saying that our board, The Swamp Thang BBS, had been selected as the SPITFIRE Board of the Month. What a way to start the New Year! My wife, Miriam, and I started this great hobby about three years ago. It started one night when I found the Telix Host program. I installed and configured the program and it worked very well. I had friends which began calling to download shareware files which I had downloaded from Delphi and other bulletin board systems. We worked with the author of this host program and took it a long way. We had about 200 users. One night a SPITFIRE Sysop, Danny Wilkerson, of Micro Sense BBS called our BBS, helped us upgrade our system with a 14.4 modem and we became friends. I began calling Danny's BBS and found out that his board ran very well. As time went on we wanted to add CD ROM capability to our BBS with a Pioneer 6-pack unit. The little host program simply could not handle this task. We evaluated many BBS programs including SPITFIRE and WildCat. We set up WildCat first and discovered that it was very slow working with the CD ROM changer. Then we evaluated SPITFIRE and WOW it was easy to install and configure! We added Mike Robinson's SFROM program to work the Pioneer changer and that was it--we were hooked on SPITFIRE! SPITFIRE ran like a clock. The BBS now runs on a 486-33 with 1.1 GigaBytes of hard drive space, four Pioneer 6-pack CD ROM changers, and a US Robotics Dual Standard 28.8 v.34 modem. With approximately 400 users the one node is doing fine. However, if the activity of the BBS continues to increase as it has in the past, we will soon be adding another node! Thanks to Mike Woltz we are now the 504 HUB for SFNET, provide InterNET E-Mail, have more than 200 InterNET UseNET Newsgroups and will soon be adding approximately 100 RIME conferences. I would also like to thank my Remote Sysop Dean Gill, Mike Woltz and all the great SPITFIRE SySops in the local area who have helped us to advance this far. Tom, Miriam and Dean. ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͸ ³ SPITFIRE SYSOP-OF-THE-MONTH ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; Peter Welch Pete's Place BBS SFNET Area Code 604 HUB 604-478-2635 Wow, Can you imagine the surprise I got when I d/led my nightly SFNET packet from the International Hub and found a message to me saying that I had been chosen to be this months "SysOp of the Month"?? I felt honored and had kind of a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Well, let me tell you a bit about me, I'm 34 and live in Victoria, B.C., Canada. For those of you that don't know, Victoria is on a small island off the West Coast of Canada. I have a lovely wife Tami, and a 17 month old son Tyler. I really enjoy being a BBS SysOp, and have been for just over 5 years. My older brother brought over some BBS software on CHRISTmas day in 1989 and as the day was progressing and we had finished opening our gifts and were awaiting the fabulous turkey dinner my wife cooks, my brother asked me if I wanted to setup a BBS on my computer. I had called a few BBS's but had NEVER thought of running one. I asked him if it was hard work to run a BBS as I had just bought the computer and was a novice at running it. Well in about an hour we had the BBS up and running with Spitfire version 2.7. Wow for someone that was a total novice at this, it was very easy to setup and have it running in a very short time. Back then we were running on a old 8088 Turbo XT with a 32 meg hard drive and a 1200 baud modem, that was 5 years ago and I've enjoyed it ever since. Mind you there was a time last February that I had felt that I had lost all interest in the BBS and had decided to take the BBS down. I deleted everything, even reformatted the hard drive and didn't make a backup. About a week later, after being so miserable and bored, as if something was missing, I found myself in front of my computer re-installing Spitfire 3.4 and setting everything back up again. I had changed the BBS name from it's original Pete's Place to Tyler's Treehouse after my son. I felt the change was what I needed. I think what I really needed was just the BBS, as they say "Once a SysOp, always a SysOp". Then in the early fall, after having to explain to people hundreds of times, why the BBS name was Tyler's Treehouse and my name was Peter, I changed back to the original name of Pete's Place. We now run on a 386DX/40 with 8 megs of ram, 2 CD-ROMS, and a 14.4 USR modem. I like having a new caller log on and ask "What am I doing, I've never called a BBS before??" Helping people just starting out is just one of the challenges I enjoy running a BBS and I also love it when I can't get something to run and then BANG it works. With the addition of SFNET to my BBS it has completed what I wanted in a BBS for myself to run. I wanted door games, I have 13 registered on-line, I wanted files, I have over 1.3 gigs on 2 CD-ROMS, and I wanted to have e-mail and do carry a small network of mail called BBCNet which is just echoed to various BBS's in British Columbia, but SFNET was the icing on the cake for me. I am also a member of a local computer club here in Victoria called Big Blue and Cousins. It's a GREAT club with over 1500 members. Well, I'm not really good at this kind of stuff so I hope I haven't bored you too much, but hope to be around still being a sysop in another 5 years. Thanks to Mike Woltz for choosing me as SysOp of The Month. Thanks to my Wife who understands when I just have to get to the computer because it has crashed or I want to change something and I say, "I'll just be a minute dear", and 2 hours later, I'm still at it. And Thanks to the SPITFIRE Family for just being there if you are needed. ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͸ ³ NEWLY REGISTERED SPITFIRE SYSTEMS ³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; A hearty welcome is extended to the following, who have recently become public registered SPITFIRE Bulletin Board Systems: 32-Bit BBS...................................Unknown Phone...57600 BPS Rob McGee, Sysop..................................Forest Grove, Oregon Trilithic Trinet BBS..........................317-895-3612...14400 BPS Trilithic Component Operations, Sysop............Indianapolis, Indiana Gates of Hell.................................606-291-3453...57600 BPS Brad Roether, Sysop...................................Wilder, Kentucky The Farm......................................904-794-2344...57600 BPS Fred J. Harris, Sysop...........................St. Augustine, Florida Ace's Place...................................908-269-9394...14400 BPS Wayne Hendrickson, Sysop..........................Bayville, New Jersey The Data Sector...............................717-485-5914...14400 BPS Eldon Martin, Sysop.......................McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania Mike's Place..................................705-524-9757...14400 BPS Michael King, Sysop...........................Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Poseidon's World..............................601-799-2294...14400 BPS Paul Robbins, Sysop.............................Piccayune, Mississippi Missouri Tele-Legal BBS.......................314-727-3869...14400 BPS Carl Ward, Sysop.....................................Clayton, Missouri (Unknown BBS Name)............................318-281-9259.Unknown BPS Gerald Smith, Sysop................................Bastrop, Louisiania Circle City BBS...............................919-542-0759...14400 BPS Roger Phillips, Sysop........................Pittsboro, North Carolina T.A.E. BBS....................................718-527-4079....2400 BPS Susan Blocker, Sysop.................................Jamaica, New York World Community Church........................713-342-6561...38400 BPS The World Community Church, Sysop......................Richmond, Texas The Computer Guru.............................904-581-2612...14400 BPS Ben Wabnick, Sysop.............................Hurlburt Field, Florida Josh's Place..................................515-792-1262...57600 BPS Josh Brittenham, Sysop....................................Newton, Iowa Comstar America...............................Unknown Phone..28800 BPS Andrew Branstner, Sysop...............................Des Moines, Iowa The Desert Island.............................307-635-8809....9600 BPS Jim Milatzo, Sysop...................................Cheyenne, Wyoming Electron Farm.................................318-397-2809...14400 BPS Thomas Humble, Sysop................................Calhoun, Louisiana In addition, there was 2 new private SPITFIRE BBS Systems registered. The private SPITFIRE BBS was registered to Sysops in Cincinnati, Ohio; and Farmington, New Hampshire. There were 21 registrations for whom registration information was incomplete. These included BBS's in: Farmingdale, New York; Arabi, Louisiana; Duncan, Oklahoma; Bucyrus, Ohio; Columbus Grove, Ohio; Greenwood, South Carolina; Watertown, Connecticut; Houston, Texas; Carlin, Nevada; Dumont, New Jersey; Holmdel, New Jersey; Dover, New Hampshire; Bettendorf, Iowa; Dothan, Alabama; New Orleans, Louisiana; Tamuning, Guam; Oak Creek, Wisconsin; Seoul, Korea; Bloomington, Indiana; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Orange Park, Florida. The increase in registrations where information is incomplete is largely due to Buffalo Creek's Software's policy of accepting on-line Mastercard and Visa credit card registrations. JUST A REMINDER...the newsletter is always looking for contributions! Please forward any articles in ASCII text to either Buffalo Creek's BBS or The Mother Board BBS.