Thanks for visiting and registering with BBSmates!  With your help, the site 
will be a huge success!  I don't plan on sending out newsletters very often, 
but if you would not like to recieve them, just let me know.

BBSmates Newletter Topics for Friday, July 19, 2002
 - Added Features
 - Added Database Fields
 - Coming Soon
 - One Last Note


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 Added Features
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Voting Booth
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Come check it out and vote on BBS-related questions.  If you have any 
suggestions for a poll, please let me know.

OneLiners
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Ahhh, aren't they fun?  Go post something on BBSmates' front page now!

Wildcard Searches
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Added ability to put in a wildcard using asterisk (*) when searching 
for a BBS in these fields: Name, Sysop or City.  ie:
a search for "alpha*omega" will give you results like:
  Alpha Omega BBS
  Alpha & Omega
  Alpha-Omega BBS

etc..

Something not right here?
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This feature was always there but it seems some people overlooked it.
If you happened to find your BBS but some peice of information was wrong,
you can click the "Something not right here?" link on the bottom of the 
view bbs page to suggestion any corrections to be made to a BBS.  Even if 
the BBS wasn't yours, but you know something was wrong, please submit 
change requests!


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 Added Database Fields
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I added 2 new fields in the BBS table.  "Network Affiliation(s)" is for 
if you BBS had FidoNet, DoveNet, etc.  "Current Web/Telnet Address" is 
for if your BBS is still running, you may include a link to the web site 
or telnet address.  For those of you that registered a BBS and had entered 
this data in the description, I put this information in the respective new 
fields.  Please go back to the site and verify it's all accurate.  If you 
have any suggestions for new fields that would be useful, please let me 
know.

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 Coming Soon
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Something I've been thinking about doing would be to add an individual 
forum for each BBS.  I know there's not really a need for it yet, but 
if a lot of people start coming to the website, I think it would be a nice 
feature.  If you have any suggestions as to how these forums should look 
and feel, please reply to this email and tell me your ideas.

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 One Last Note
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THANK YOU!!  Thanks for being a part of BBSmates!  And thank you for all 
the feedback!  As the first group of members of BBSmates, I'm asking you 
to help me publicize BBSmates.  So if you know someone who might be 
interested, please tell them about the website.  If you don't mind, please 
put a link to BBSmates on your homepage.  I'll create a Links section on 
the site and link back to your homepage.  I created a link icon you could 
use on your homepage, that's located here: 
http://www.bbsmates.com/bbsmates_icon.gif

Furthermore, if you have any suggestions about the site for improvement, 
please email me!


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Aron Hoekstra
BBSmates - dialing up the past
http://www.bbsmates.com
http://www.vaper.org
nullvalue@bbsmates.com