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关于黑客的论坛的下载资料

parabolic Ku-band antenna system and a PCSAT 100 Wireless
Usenet Data Terminal. Any 286 or higher processor running DOS
3.1 is acceptable. You still need a land-line to an Internet
host for outgoing mail.

Contact: Duane J. Dubay
PageSat Inc.
992 San Antonio Rd.
Palo Alto, CA.  94303
[phone]
Email: [e-mail]

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[10.3.03.2] - PLANET CONNECT

Planet Connect is a direct-broadcast satellite service. The
base system uses a 2-foot dish with a flat roof mount, wall
mount, or pole mount, Ku LNB and feed and Planet Connect Data
Receiver (19,200 baud).

Base service includes: FidoNET backbone NaNet

Contact: Planet Systems, Inc.
213 Abbey Road
Newport, TN 37821
Voice: 615-623-9335
Fax: [phone]
BBS: 615-623-8203
V32: 615-623-8111
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10.4 - CONNECTING YOUR ONLINE SERVICE TO THE WEB
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[10.4.01] - How do I setup a Web server?

A www server primer by Nathan Torkington, available at the URL
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/who/Nathan.Torkington/ideas/www-servers.html

To find out which server is best for your needs, you will want
to consult Paul Hoffman's Server Comparison Chart (URL is
http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/chart.html ). That document
is also available by anonymous FTP from ftp.netcom.com in the
directory pub/bo/boutell/faq.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION - Anyone willing to provide information for
this section please send e-mail to: [e-mail]
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                    CHAPTER 11 - NET IT UP
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11.1 - GETTING YOUR BBS ON AN ECHO NETWORK
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[11.1.01] - Why network?

As electronic bulletin boards proliferate like particles
in a nuclear reaction, the opportunities to "net" will
likewise explode. Why do it? Well, why not? The costs are
minuscule compared to the benefits offered by a well-
operated BBS "echo" network. In real terms, the long
distance phone charges applied to networked message have
probably gone DOWN in the ten short years that individual
computerists began linking up. actual outlay, though, may
not have decreased -- since the amount of traffic has
expanded like as super nova.

Your users will benefit from the networks through the
connections that link them with folks from all over the
country and the globe, gaining insights and points-of-
view unavailable in any other medium. Correspondingly,
the users of other member boards in the network can
benefit from the thoughts and opinions of *your* users.
The many-to-many discussions offered in these nearly
gatekeeper-free, nearly unedited channels may be one of
the biggest attractions for users to gravitate to your
BBS.

The reason to net may not have changed much from the
desire that led Tom Jennings to found the biggest and
oldest self-sustaining echo net of them all -- FidoNet
<tm>. He found himself on one coast and a friend on the
other. He figured a way to auto-send messages at night
when the rates were low. The technique spread. And now
the BBS that is not networked in some way is a rarity.

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[11.1.02] - What is an echo net?

"Echo" is the word that came to describe the act of
netting chains of home-grown BBSs together because it is
descriptive of the technique most commonly used. Your
voice echoes when you send it through a canyon and it
reverberates after striking each successive rockface.
Your users' messages will do the same as they pass from
your board to your UPLINK BBS in the chain. Later, often
the next night, that uplink calls another NODE in the
net, perhaps, which merely collects and passes your
board's messages on; or it may call a HUB, which collects
messages from its own users, as well as many other node
BBSs like yours. Hubs of this kind do specially arranged
exchanges among themselves in many network set-ups.
Sometimes called "star" systems these central and
regionally placed systems act as collection and
distribution points and add measurable efficiencies to
the passing of communications around the continents.

There are also systems which do not merely echo messages
but which also echo software and other data, usually in
compressed form. Keep an eye out for the Shareware
Distribution Network (SDN), a well-established collection
of BBSs that spreads useful utility, entertainment and
educational software.

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[11.1.03] - Where do I find information?

Call any BBS of which you are now aware, and you will
probably finds a net attached to it. Normally each system
in a net makes available the latest version of an
information archive -- most often known as an "info pac".
Ask the sysop for the name or how to get it.

If you have no nets locally that you'd like to carry on
your own system, there are places where networking folk
gather to discuss issues and disseminate information.
Look at all the nets local to you to see if any carry a
conference on the topic of "networking". Sometimes these
conferences are devoted to discussions of the LAN (local
area networking) techniques of business and government,
but ask anyway. You're sure to get a lead or two.

You're probably not too far from a BBS carrying the
FidoNet conference called OTHERNETS. For a sysop
interested in networking, even long-distance contact with
this conference will be well worth it. Messages by
administrators and member sysops of other BBS networks
(hence the name of the conference) comprise the vast bulk
of the messaging activity there.

Lastly, there is a certain book, (Surely, the reader
knows that even if I wasn't the author, I'd mention it.
Surely.) the current edition of which contains the
complete NODELISTs (compilation of phone numbers) of
member boards of 69 self-sustaining echo networks (and a
partial list of one huge one). With the listings of the
conferences carried, the entries in the directory range
from the dependable and mainstream (RIME, a general
interest net with its own elaborate technology and nearly
a thousand member boards,) through the meditative
(DharmaNet, devoted to Buddism) through the bizarre
(Furnet, which, apparently, has something to do with
anthromorphy, the role-playing of animals).

The book is called _Free Electronic Networks_ (Prima
Computer Books, Rocklin CA, ISBN 1-55958-415-7). Your
local library may have it. (Library books are, after all,
the original shareware.)  Or browse through it at your
local bookstore (but try not to make it too dog-eared.)


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[11.1.04] - Do echo networks charge fees?

By and large the echo networks almost religiously DO NOT
charge for the privilege of joining them. Many, if they
have thought to include the rule, even forbid their
member board sysops from withholding the network
conferences from users in exchange for fees (or
"donations," as many sysops like to call them.)

There are some that require fees for administrative
reasons and some try to establish emergency funds to keep
the systems up. A few may even exact charges from the
individual users. This is rare.

Some common charges may involve "hub" fees, where node
systems are asked for a nominal monthly or weekly
contribution in order to help offset the phone toll
charges that accrue to the operators of network hubs,
which sometimes haul huge amounts of data through their
phone links. A well-run net will easily make these
charges worth your while. And you can be sure that no one
is making a killing, just sharing the load.

The software used to network, in most cases is open
and/or shareware, meaning the inventors don't mind if you
tinker and the payment you make to them are on the honor
system. Some networks require the software be
"registered" (paid for) before allowing a hook-up.

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[11.1.05] - What are the differences between networking
technologies?

The basic known forms of net tech are the following:
Fido; QWK; PostLink, WWIV, Citadel.

Fido is a net and a tech. Your board can be part of the
big FidoNet, or it can be part of a stand-alone
organization that merely uses the same techniques and
similar software to the Big Dog. The software has evolved
but remains in the same basic form. The BBS interacts
with the net through a software link called a "fossil"
driver and another called a "mailer." Getting your board
up and going in a Fido tech network can be somewhat
technically daunting for the casual computerist, and may
require more know-how than the other network forms. But
the tradition of Fido has grown from the achievement of
dedicated independent computerists, and they'd prefer the
company of those who can muster up the minimum expertise
it takes to join them.  Search the BBSs near you -- or
the commercial online services you patronize -- for a
file named something like BIGDUMMY.* Inside will probably
be a text file entitled "The Big Dummy's Guide to
FidoNet" by Michael Schuyler. It's an informative and
witty espousal of the Fido ways, whys and wherefores.

QWK is a networking standard that grew out of the most
successful of the mail reader formats to emerge over the
last few years. A mail reader is a software device that
allows a user to call your board and take messages away,
for reading and responding at their leisure. The mail
reader hooks up with a "door" on your board that knows
the format used, and deals out the messages according to
the users wants. It was not a far jump from this task to
using the same pieces, with a bit of adjustment, for the
task of networking between the boards themselves.
Naturally then, since the form was founded for the use of
your average users, the networking techniques cannot be
too trying on the intellect. The ease of use has its
drawbacks. QWK nets rarely offer "netmail" or "receiver-
only" mail (sometimes erroneously known as "private e-
mail." There is very little privacy available). WildNet
is a large and active net based on QWK tech.

PostLink is a proprietary technology (in that the
developer would prefer you not use it if you haven't paid
for it, and tinkering is not encouraged.) The large
network based on this tech is the RelayNet International
Message Exchange (RIME), a stable network which offers a
modicum of security by providing encrypting netmail and
other features not available in your average hacked,
cobbled and tweaked net tech.

WWIV is a technology that seems to attract those
hobbyists (read as "hacker" in the  mostly benign meaning
of the word) with a penchant for "handles" and wild talk.
WWIV offers conferences that are known as "subs" -- which
is short for "sub-boards" or smaller divisions of the
main board. The topics tend to be wild and the "sub"
names wildly descriptive, since the technology allows for
longer names. (i.e., The Wesley Crusher Must Die Club).
The subs can be started on a BBS anywhere in the net and
will spread around according to their popularity and
audience -- a method the online radicals like to think of
as anarchy, but which is really a demonstration of your
basic orderly market economics. Like Fido, there is the
big WWIV and there are some few other networks based on
the tech that are stand-alone.

Citadel is a technology nearly as old as FidoNet, with a
core group of unshakable enthusiasts who would run
nothing else. It is really a style of BBSing that
naturally branched out into networking. There are BBS
versions for nearly every computer technology that has
been used since the early 1980's, including the extinct
DOS predecessor CP/M and the widely ignored
Ataris/Amigas. (Possibly excluding Macintosh. Do Macs
net? Still can't say for sure. Haven't come across one.)
Started as a BBS that could serve as a form of on-line
role-playing game, the Citadels are "room-based" in that
the conference areas are called Rooms. Groups of rooms
related by topic are organized into floors (for instance,
the "networking floor" and the "computer talk floor").
The individual rooms are networked in the catch-as-catch-
can anarchic mode, where the sysops take and share the
rooms they want. If you want a room that is not available
on a board you net with locally, you are welcome to cast
your line long distance and get it yourself. Topics are
esoteric, indeed, in some rooms "topic" as a description
would be a stretch. Interaction with a Citadel is a
pleasant, primitive, sort of a welcome throwback to a
younger computing day. Learning the commands may take bit
more effort than today's menu-driven, hand-holdy BBS
systems, but the old-timers don't mind if those without
the patience stay away after the first call. They're in
it for the long haul.

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[11.1.06] - What do I have to do to join?

You might not want to think about joining a network until
you have your BBS up and stabilized. Be sure that you
will be around longer than a few months before trying for
a net. Sysoping can be trying and demanding. Attrition of
new boards is high. Adding a network may only add to your
early frustration and gain you some ill will with the
administrators if you falter and fade away.

Once you decide to join one and have picked one out, you
are likely to be put through one of a widely varying
system of application processes.  Some networks require
little more than the achievement of a BBS up and running,
and are thankful to have any nodes they can attract