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###From: Jerry J Bromenshenk <[log in to unmask]>
###Subject: Re: bee news group
###Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 09:00:38 -0700 (MST)
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###Ok, so Jane set me straight on a UseNet.  Now I am trying to figure what
###it gains over your BBS.
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###In a few weeks, I intend to have a BBS up and running at the UM.  I got a
###copy of Qmodem, but need to reset the strings - getting garbage on the
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  Hi Jerry,
 
    Good Luck on the bbs, if you need any help call me voice at
209-826-2261. I am in and out as its that time when we are working
the bees and moving them out of the almonds..
 
    To answer yours and the questions of many other on bbsing I will
tell you of my experience of more then 3 years in the operation of
Wild Bee's BBS for Beekeepers and Friends in Los Banos, CA @
209-826-8107.
 
    A bbs is a communications platform in that many different types
of services can be ongoing from the same bbs. My bbs is based on the
Wild Cat BBS Program and runs on a 486-33 DOS base cpu using Desqview.
I use over 200 dos programs called from the bbs platform to do many
tasks of which one is run several different programs that do mail
transfers all in a dos QWK format. Even the uucp is converted to QWK
for placement in the Wild Bee's message base.
 
    Wild Bee's BBS is connected to 470+ other bbs's in a mail network
called Wild Net. Wild Net carries a conference called BEE Net that
originates here and can be had for the asking at any of the bbs that
carry the Wild Net. Wild Net may soon be available via satellite. Wild
Bee's also has a bbs internet connection via Holonet and can send and
receive E-Mail and news groups @beenet.com. BBSing is a growth industry
and it has been a mind boggling experience for me, who's only job for
40+ years has been one that has kept my head bowed between my
legs peering into thousands of beehives. The work of being a systems
operator, and it is a lot of work, is so different from keeping bees
I still can't believe that I have been able to get it this far. I have
had a lot of help from another beekeeper, sysop, computer guru, who
also finds time from the daily operation of 12-14,000 colonies of bees
to bbs, Brian Ferguson of Huston-Ferguson Apiaries. Between us we have
more then 25 years experience with cpu's starting with TRaSh 80's and
75 years experience keeping bees. Brian has been the largest producer
of honey in California many times and is one of the largest single
providers of California bees for pollination. Today he is struggling
with the same problems that all beekeepers face, survival as a economic
unit in an industry that is in distress.
 
    The bbs caller who calls here can get the BEENET Conference, use
the E-Mail to receive the B-List, and soon will be able to get the new
Bee News Group. Also we have all the Beekeeping Files that I have been
able to collect that can be downloaded. There is much that we can not
do from the bbs, yet, like ftp, gopher and much more. All of these
things will be added in the future as programmers make them available to
bbs's. The bbs is a tool that anyone with a modem and the money to pay
the phone bill can use. Wild Bee's is a *FREE* service provided by me to
the Beekeeping Industry and Friends, same as the Bee Net Conference.
With the addition of the internet E-Mail which costs about $20 per month
plus phone charges I decided to accept donations for the first time
started Jan 1, and much to my surprise I have got some.
 
                       ttul Andy-
 
 * TLX v3.40 * * Queen bee--the power behind the drone.