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- A BBS will usually offer the following services:
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- └─────────────┘ │ BBS │
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- ┌──┴──┐ ┌──┴─┐ ┌──┴─┐ ┌─────┴───────┐ ┌───┴──┐ ┌───┴───┐
- │FILES│ │MAIL│ │NEWS│ │SILVER XPRESS│ │LOGOFF│ │OPTIONS│
- └─────┘ └────┘ └────┘ └─────────────┘ └──────┘ └───────┘
- Hit F to explain Files, Hit M to explain Mail,
- Hit N to explain News, Hit S to explain Silver Xpress,
- Hit L to explain Logoff, Hit O to explain Options,
- Hit Q to exit explanation
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- News or Bulletins are informational items usually shown immediately, or
- selected from a list. Reading all such available items can be time
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- Files are programs you can download and try on your PC. Typically, files
- are games, utilities and productivity enhancement programs such as the
- Silver Xpress Mail Reader. Knowing what is all available can be time
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- BBS mail is normally divided into categories LOCAL, FORUMS or ECHOS, and
- NETMAIL. If the category is not shared with another BBS, the mail is
- known as LOCAL mail. This chart illustrates how mail is normally divided:
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- │ MAIL ├──────┬─────┤ LOCAL MAIL (PRIVATE OR PUBLIC)│
- └──────┘ │ └───────────────────────────────┘
- │ ┌───────────────────────────────┐
- ├─────┤ DIRECT NETWORK MAIL │
- │ └───────────────────────────────┘
- │ ┌───────────────────────────────┐
- ├─────┤ FORUM CONFERENCE NUMBER 1 │
- │ └───────────────────────────────┘
- │ ┌───────────────────────────────┐
- └─────┤ FORUM CONFERENCE NUMBER 2 │
- └───────────────────────────────┘
- In the Main Section, you will have to JOIN or SELECT the MAIL Conference to
- read, or create mail on the BBS.
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- By joining the conference, you effectively "selected" the conference as a
- mail area of interest. The conference may be about Programming, Word
- Processing, Legal Matters, etc. There are over 1000 different Forums or
- "echos" as they are some times called in the BBS world. In order for the
- BBS to have these "Shared" forums, it must be part of a computer network.
- Each BBS will pass files and messages to one another.
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- So if you enter a message in a LOCAL area, the message will not travel to
- other bulletin board systems. If you enter a message in a ECHO or FORUM
- area, the message will travel across the network. There is a special area
- called DIRECT MAIL or NETMAIL. If you enter a message in the NETMAIL area,
- the message is sent directly to the BBS where the recipient is located.
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- As illustrated, you can spend hours on the BBS reading local mail,
- participating in national forums or sending costly netmail to individuals.
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- Silver Xpress is designed to manage the BBS mail system more effectively
- for you thus saving you time and money.
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- This option will hangup your modem and log you off the BBS.
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- Each BBS has special settings for the user. The options allow you to change
- these settings. The options include VIDEO selection, HOTKEY selection,
- LANGUAGE selection, Change in Name or Password, etc.
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- Silver Xpress puts all the features you find in a BBS together and allows
- you to effectively search for mail and new files.
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- Silver Xpress allows you to "Select" all the mail forums of interest
- and allows you to scan and collect new messages for reading while you are
- disconnected from the BBS.
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- Once you have received the Xpress Mail packet, you may begin to logoff.
- If you have created mail, you can send it to Silver Xpress and Xpress
- will move it into the appropriate mail areas.
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- You can log off once you have the Xpress Mail Packet on your PC!
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- You just collected a vast amount of mail in a short period of time. Now
- you can use the Silver Xpress Mail Reader to read your mail.
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