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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Forth FAQ Answers: Part 10 (ForthNet: What and how?). (V1.0:01.Jan.93)
- Message-ID: <4220.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
- From: FAQ@willett.pgh.pa.us (comp.lang.forth FAQ source)
- Date: 2 Jan 93 00:39:38 GMT
- Organization: EIEI-U
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- What is ForthNet?
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- ForthNet is a virtual Forth network that links designated message bases
- of several Bulletin Boards and Information Services in an attempt to
- provide greater distribution of Forth related information.
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- ForthNet is provided through the courtesy of the SysOps of its various
- links who shunt appropriate messages in a manual or semi-manual manner.
- An incomplete list of the branches of ForthNet includes:
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- UseNet's comp.lang.forth
- BitNet's FIGI-L
- the BBoard systems RCFB, ACFB, LMI BBS, Interface BBS, Grapevine
- FIG's RoundTable on GEnie.
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- What are the restrictions and guidelines for ForthNet messages?
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- The various branches of ForthNet do not have the same rules of
- appropriate postings or ettiquette. Many BBoard posts are very chatty
- and contain some personal information, and some also contain blatant
- commercial advertising. Most comp.lang.forth posts are not like that.
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- Because ForthNet messages are routed beyound the system from which they
- originate, we, the manual and semi-manual linkers of ForthNet, ask that
- you try to keep the lines in your messages to under 77 characters in
- length. You do not have to do that. If you do use long lines, be aware
- that your message will end up formatted differently on the various
- branches of ForthNet.
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- How do I send email to some one who has posted a message on ForthNet?
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- There is NO e-mail link between the various branches of ForthNet. If you
- need to get a message through to someone on another branch, please either
- make your message general enough to be of interest to the whole net, or
- contact said person by phone, USMail, or some other means. Thoughtful
- message authors place *a few* lines at the end of their messages
- describing how to contact them (electronicly or otherwise).
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- How do I access ForthNet?
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- From UseNet: comp.lang.forth
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- ForthNet messages that are ported into comp.lang.forth from the rest of
- the ForthNet all originate on GEnie. All such messages are ported into
- comp.lang.forth with a from line of the form:
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- From: ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us ...
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- Most messages ported to comp.lang.forth also contain some trailer
- information as to where they actually originated, if it was not on
- GEnie.
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- From BITNET: FIGI-L
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- For those who have access to BITNET/CSNet, but not Usenet
- comp.lang.forth is echoed in FIGI-L. The maintainer of the
- Internet/BITNET gateway since 1st quarter 1992 is as follows:
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- Pedro Luis Prospero Sanchez internet: pl@lsi.usp.br (PREFERRED)
- University of Sao Paulo uunet: uunet!vme131!pl
- Dept. of Electronic Engineering hepnet: psanchez@uspif1.hepnet
- phone: (055)(11)211-4574 home: (055)(11)914-9756 fax: (055)(11)815-4272
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- From a modem:
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- RCFB (Real-Time Control Forth Board) 303-278-0364
- SysOp: Jack Woehr
- Location: Golden, Colorado -USA-
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- ACFB (Australia Connection Forth Board) 03-809-1787 in Australia
- 61-3-809-1787 International
- SysOp: Lance Collins
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria -AUSTRALIA-
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- LMI BBS (Laboratory Microsystems, Inc.) 310-306-3530
- SysOp: Ray Duncan
- Location: Marina del Ray, California -USA-
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- Interface BBS 707-544-9661
- Sysop: b0b (Bob Lee)
- Location: Santa Rosa, California -USA-
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- Grapevine (Grapevine RIME hub) 501-753-8121 to register
- 501-753-6859 thereafter
- SysOp: Jim Wenzel
- Location: Little Rock, Arkansas -USA-
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- GEnie 800-638-9636 for information
- (General Electric Network for Information Service)
- SysOps: Dennis Ruffer(D.RUFFER)
- Leonard Morgenstern(NMORGENSTER)
- Elliott Chapin(ELLIOTT.C)
- b0b (Bob Lee)
- Location: Forth RoundTable - type M710 or FORTH
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