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General Information about the Registry.
The Australian Bulletin Board System Registry (or BBS Registry
for short) was formed to attempt to resolve the age old problem
of obsolete Bulletin Board lists. Part of the philosophy of the
registry is to make it worthwhile for all operators to list their
system with the registry and to make use of the listings.
One method of making the listings attractive is that the issue of
the lists is totally regular, on the first monday of each month
the registry publishes a new version of the listing. This
listing is clearly marked with the creation date and time and is
also given a release number (this release number is normally the
year and month of issue, the January 1987 list would be given a
release number of 8701).
The "Your Computer" and "Australian Personal Computer" magazines
generously sponsored the running costs of the registry, it does
cost quite a few dollars to run the registry and "Your Computer"
and "Australian Personal Computer" help.
The idea of providing the files is that they are available to
anyone, sure there is a copyright notice, but that is to protect
the viability of the lists not to stop people using them. If you
make commercial use of the listings at least pay for some of the
cost of running the registry. Permission is specifically given
for anyone to use the lists, in any form, so long as
acknowledgment to the registry is given in the form "List
published by the Australian BBS Registry" and that the release
number of the registry is included with your list, easy isn't it.
Most Australian FidoNet systems carry the current list, this is
because the Network Coordinators of Fido support the idea of
up-to-date listings, this does not mean the lists are FidoNet
only, they a FREE TO ANYONE. Look for the listings on your
favourite system, if they are not there ask you sysop to get them
for you, otherwise call the state coordinators bulletin board and
get it from there, or try your nearest FidoNet system. If all
else fails dial (047) 35-6789 and get it from me.
Please help eradicate out of date listings, use the registry
files, and if you find a system that is not listed or has
inaccurate details advise the registry either by post, through
one of the coordinators, on BBS_NEWS echomail conference, or by
leaving a message to Rodney Creer on the Australian BBS Registry.
Thank you for your help.
Rodney Creer
National BBS Registry Coordinator
FidoNet 3:713/317