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- BOF CSRNet F.A.Q. (Frequently Asked Questions)
- (June 20, 1993)
-
-
- Forward:
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-
- Hopefully this document will cover any other questions you
- may have that have as of yet gone unanswered. If not, please,
- when you send me a message, make sure to include the question
- that you felt was unanswered and I will try to cover it in one
- of the other documents, or I will include it in this one.
-
-
- F.A.Q.'s
- ========
-
- Q. Does CSRNet carry the InterNet Private E-Mail conference,
- and if so, if I was to carry CSRNet, would I be able to
- write a message on my system to someone on CompuServe, for
- instance?
-
- A. YES. The InterNet Private E-Mail confernce was one of the
- first items that we connected into when CSRNet was formed.
- You can, and will be able to write a message on your system
- to anyone that you have an InterNet address for. This includes,
- just to name a few, Delphi, CompuServe, America Online,
- AppleLink, AT&T EasyLink Sevices, BitNet, Connect, Genie and
- FidoNet.
-
-
- Q. If I become a HOST and feed other systems locally, do they
- have to send you $10 a month as well?
-
- A. NO. The only fee I require is the $10 per month fee I charge
- for systems that get their mail DIRECTLY from me. This fee
- is to help cover the cost of my monthly connection fee as
- well as my phone bill to bring in this feed Long Distance.
- You can and are highly encouraged to pass your feed onto other
- local systems. You may also implement a monthly fee of your
- own to help cover your cost of bringing in CSRNet Long
- Distance.
-
-
- Q. Can I feed other systems that are NOT local to me?
-
- A. MAYBE. If you are currently the only HOST in your State or
- Province, and there are other systems in your Region, ie,
- State or Province, and you are recieving a majority of the
- newsgroups being carried by CSRNet, then all you have to
- do is ask to become an RC and that will entitle you to feed
- Long Distance systems in your Region.
-
-
- Q. Do you use the same addressing format and Interface as a
- true InterNet connection?
-
- A. Because most BBS software limits the number of characters
- allowed in the "TO:" field of a message, we use a slightly
- different format that handles the job quite well and is just
- as effective. Please refer to the INTERNET.INF file that
- accompanied this document. It contains all the specific
- information that you may be looking for.
-
-
- Q. If I don't want to poll you in Cananda for the mail, can I
- poll a CSRNet system in the United States instead?
-
- A. MAYBE. If there is a HOST CSRNet system in your State, then
- I will be more then happy to allow you to get the mail from
- that system, as long as I am notified before the feed is
- established. This applies to Long Distance systems only. If,
- however, there isn't a HOST CSRNet system in your State, I
- would prefer that you poll me for the mail and if you wish,
- I can make you the HOST CSRNet system for your State.
-
-
- Q. If I wanted to be a State or Provincial RC and wanted to
- recieve ALL of the newsgroups that were being carried, how
- much mail would that be on a nightly basis?
-
- A. At the present time, I am bringing in about 1.5 megs of
- compressed mail nightly, for the 60 some odd newsgroups we
- are currently carrying.
-
-
- Q. What special Software do I require to carry these InterNet
- Newsgroups and the InterNet Private E-Mail Conference?
-
- A. If you are currently carry Echo-Mail, such as FidoNet, you
- have everything that you need. If not, you will need to
- pick up a program for your specific BBS software that will
- allow you to toss Echo-Mail into your BBS conferences.
-
-
- Closing:
- ========
-
-
- I hope I have managed to answer most of your questions. If
- there are still some questions that have been left unanswered
- please send me a netmail message and I will try and answer it
- for you as quickly as possible. You might even want to leave
- me a line stating that your question might be worthwhile in
- this document.
-
- You may reach me anytime at the following:
-
- CSRNet - 11:11/0
- InterNet - tim.lajoie@cld9.sccsi.com
- FidoNet - 1:222/21
- Voice - 1-705-949-9275
- BBS - 1-705-942-5370
-
-
-
- Cheers!
- Tim Lajoie,
- Founder of CSRNet
-
- EOF