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- PROPOSAL FOR BBS-USA:
- BBS -- Users and Sysops Association
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- Would you be interested in joining an association to promote and protect
- Bulletin Board Systems (BBS)? The "hosts" of GEnie's BBS RoundTable are
- prepared to provide as much as $500 in seed capital to start a non-
- profit association with these goals and activities:
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- 1. Low-cost legal defense for member users and sysops who subscribe to
- and follow an appropriate code of BBS ethics.
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- 2. Washington lobbying to support the interests and needs of the BBS
- community.
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- 3. Publication of a quarterly or monthly online-only newsletter for BBS
- users and sysops.
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- Here is a possible allocation of funds:
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- -- 50% reserved for legal defense fund and Washington lobbying
- -- 50% used to pay for member-submitted (published) newsletter articles
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- BBS-USA membership would cost $10 for users and sysops (free AND
- commercial systems). Users would be encouraged to pay the membership fee
- for their "favorite" sysop (free BBS systems only). All user and sysop
- members would be required to sign the association's code of BBS ethics.
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- The first newsletter would include free articles from interested users
- and sysops, and could be posted on any BBS or commercial online service.
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- The second newsletter would use half of the $500 seed capital to pay for
- as many as 10 articles. Newsletters #2 and higher could be posted ONLY
- on BBS systems and online services whose sysops are members of the
- association. Each newsletter would include a list of BBS whose sysops
- are members of the association.
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- If you are interested in BBS-USA, please post your comments in GEnie's
- BBS RoundTable Bulletin Board, CATEGORY #1, Topic #6. Please promise to
- write a free article for the first newsletter, or to help draft the code
- of ethics and/or association charter. If you are willing to provide
- deeply discounted legal or lobbying services, let us know.
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- We invite support and participation from SIG/RoundTable Hosts from other
- national online services. Additional locations for comment -- on other
- services -- will be announced in updates of this file.
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- Please also distribute this small file to every BBS you use! If interest
- is significant, this proposal will be formalized by March 30, 1987.
-
- Thanks!
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- Your Hosts
- GEnie's BBS RoundTable
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- File version 1.0 -- 2/8/87
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