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- Dateline August 23, 1986
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- From: Shane O'Neill (800/1)
- To : All COLLIE SYSOPS
- Re : Assignment of Net Hosts
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-
- Hello COLLIE sysops! As most of you are already aware, the COLLIE
- Development team has decided to assign a Net Host to each Region
- in the COLLIE nodelist. Which, right now, consists of one Net Host
- in each state represented in the nodelist. What is a Net Host and
- what are his/her responsibilities? Follow the bouncing ball:
-
- Definition:
-
- A Net Host is a 'Representative' of several other COLLIE
- nodes. Think of it in terms of being a Representative in the House
- of Representatives, but there is only one Representative from
- each state and the House of Representatives is actually the CollieNet.
-
- Why a Net Host?
-
- We felt that, since we will be becoming FIDO compatible in the netmail
- area as soon as either COLLIE 2.0 or Perspective (depending on your
- votes) are distributed, we sensed that we should become more diverse
- and lay some of the responsibilities upon the Collie Sysops and allow
- me a little breathing room. In addition, the Net Host System is a good
- way to involve sysops and allow the CollieNet to become more active.
- Also, perhaps COLLIE Sysops will become more 'unified'. Mind you this
- is only an experiment, but we expect it to better the CollieNet in
- many ways.
-
- What are the RESPONSIBILITIES of a Net Host?
-
- Since being a Net Host is a very important position, it needs to be
- held by RESPONSIBLE and DEPENDABLE sysops who we can rely on. We wish
- only to have the most dependable sysops in this position. Now this
- position is demanding in a sense because it involves sending long
- distance netmail to Collie Boards periodically. Here is a rundown on
- a Net Host's responsibilities:
-
- o Your COLLIE should be run as much as you can (try for 24 hours and
- ALWAYS run both netmail events)
- o Every other Sunday (see an Alpha site for start date) a netmail message
- must be sent to 800/1 (On The Brink) including a Region Report
- (ie Region 804 Report for Pennsylvania). This Region Report should
- tell me (at 800/1) the following things should they be applicable:
- - Has any Collie Board in your Region (state) decided to
- discontinue running Collie?
- - Are there any pertinent changes in any of these boards? (ie
- Data/Voice number changes, hours of operation changes, modem
- speed change, temporary halt of COLLIE running?
- - Send all suggestions/comments/criticisms/questions/etc that
- any of these sysops may have in your netmail message as well.
- - ANY OTHER information you feel may be important!!
- This means one message every two weeks, so it will cost you about
- $1-$2 a month extra on your phone bill providing you are using
- AT&T.
- o Of course all this means you must somehow setup some sort of
- system for communicating with 'your' nodes. You may want to ask
- them to send you netmail on a specific day or two on any changes/etc
- they may have. You can tell them that if they do not send you a
- netmail message on the particular day(s), you will assume they have
- no changes/quirks/problems/questions/comments/etc for those two
- weeks. I URGE that if they fail to send you a netmail message (or
- however you plan on communicating) for 4 or 6 weeks that you
- PLEASE check up on their board to see that they are still actively
- running COLLIE! There are many ways you can setup your 'system'.
- Please do not make it hard on yourself. There are several good
- ways to go about it.
-
- NOTE: The above responsibilities ONLY PERTAINS to the NETHOSTS!!
-
- I do understand that it is hard to get a netmail message to my board
- EVERY other week on a regular basis because of vacations, hardware
- failure, etc. I stress that you acquire the phone numbers of the
- sysops in 'your' group so you can call them in case of emergency.
- Please try to get a netmail message every time one is due! If you are
- having trouble getting a netmail message to my board, please call
- me voice at 703-569-1279 between 10am and 8pm.
-
- Now since they are a few REGIONS in our nodelist that only have ONE
- node, the one-node-region will of course NOT have to report every
- other week unless that one node (which will be the nethost) has
- any changes listed above. But if another node is assigned in that
- REGION, you will have to send a netmail message every other week.
-
- The development team (mostly myself) has picked a Net Host for MOST
- of the existing REGIONS. I understand that NOT everyone who is
- chosen will want to be a Net Host. So please read the list below,
- and if you are picked as the Net Host, please send a message to
- 800/1 either accepting or rejecting the offer. If i do not receive
- a response in 3 weeks, I will assume it is a 'no'! There are also
- a few REGIONS where I have NO IDEA who would want to be/who is
- qualified to be a Net Host. I have indentified those REGIONS below
- and anyone in one of those REGIONS (and ONLY one of those REGIONS)
- who would like to become the Net Host, please send me a message
- at 800/1 informing me. Let me tell you the decisions I made were
- EXTREMELY tough in most of the REGIONS, so bear with me. This list
- below IS NOT FINAL yet!!
-
- Key to COMMENTS:
-
- ???? = No Net Host assigned! Please inquire at 800/1
- **** = This Net Host is DEFINITE! Already assigned.
- No comment = Awaiting response from Sysop!
-
-
- REGION STATE POSSIBLE NET HOST COMMENTS:
- ====== ================= ================= =========
- 804 Pennsylvania Dental_Connection ****
- 807 New_Jersey Jr._Connection
- 810 Georgia AIBBS
- 817 Maryland Avi-Technic
- 823 Virginia On_The_Brink ****
- 825 New_York BackStreet ****
- 829 North_Carolina Wolf-Comm
- 836 Tennessee ????
- 838 Ohio ????
- 842 Indiana ????
- 846 Illinois Micro_Systems
- 848 Alabama Telcomm_BBS
- 856 Michigan Guardian_Collie_P1
- 858 Florida ????
- 860 Texas ????
- 870 California Blackmoor_Castle ????
- 874 Minnesota TC-Colossus
- 876 Oregon The_ROSE
- 878 Kansas Aztec_BBS ****
- 882 Nevada ????
- 898 Utah Bonneville_BBS
- 1002 Oklahoma The_Dark_Cavern
- 1020 CANADA ????
-
- Please make sure that:
-
- If your board is listed as the Net Host that you please respond
- to me at 800/1 As Soon As Possible!
-
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