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                                  ANNOUNCING

              Online Networking Exposition and BBS Convention

                           O N E   B B S C O N

                            AUGUST 25-29, 1993

                 Broadmoor Hotel - Colorado Springs, Colorado

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  Make your plans now to attend the biggest, most exciting event in BBS
  history - 1000 BBS operators gathered under one roof.  John C. Dvorak
  columnist with PC Magazine and PC Computing and author of Dvorak's Guide
  to PC Telecommunications, will deliver the Keynote Address.  Additionally,


  HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH A BBS - The most attended session from FIDOCON91 is
  back by popular demand.  Jack Rickard and Phil Becker with frank talk on
  what works, what doesn't, and why - gleaned from their contacts with
  hundreds of successful BBS operators.  How to handle credit cards, promote
  your system, develop a theme, and take advantage of printed media to get
  ahead.

  DVORAK AWARDS
  Noted columnist John C. Dvorak and modem manufacturer Zoom Telephonics
  have again teamed up to present a series of Technical Excellence in
  Communications Awards to many of the BBS industry pioneers.  Last year's
  awardees included Ward Christensen - author of the first BBS program and
  the XMODEM file transfer protocol, Chuck Forsberg, authorof ZMODEM, and
  Phil Katz, author of the PKZIP file compression utility.


  HISTORY OF BBS SESSION moderated by none other than Ward Christensen,
  author of the FIRST BBS in Chicago in 1978.  Listen to some of the early
  pioneers describe how and why they did what they did the way they did it.

  LEGAL ISSUES FOR BBS OPERATORS - with Lance Rose, author of SYSLAW SECOND
  EDITION - copyright, trademark, contracts, censorship, in a series of
  sessions Attorney Lance Rose and cohorts will give you the information
  you need to run a BBS - and avoid legal difficulties.

  INTERNET FROM A TO Z - A series of sessions on the Internet, what it is,
  what it means, how to connect YOUR BBS at various levels.  From a top
  level roundtable discussion on the future of NREN and the Internet,
  right down to how to get individual BBS software packages connected to
  the network to do for global electronic mail.

  OTHER NETWORKS - FidoNet and ILINK - what are they and how do you connect
  YOUR BBS to exchange message conferences with other bulletin boards
  world wide.  What software to use, how to install it, where to join.

  WHAT SOFTWARE AND TOOLS DO I NEED?  What BBS Software do you want to use?
  Detailed presentations by virtually every major BBS software vendor in the
  business - what it does, how it does it, and how you can get it to do more
  with utilities, add-ons, and networks.  Meet the authors of such popular
  packages as PCBoard, Wildcat, Major BBS, Remote Access, TBBS and many more
  in person and up close.  Ask questions.  See the latest releases. Compare
  these titles side-by-side. Nowhere else will you see such an array of BBS
  software products in one place to be compared side by side.

  SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHALLENGES FOR THE BBS COMMUNITY.  Presentations on
  the legal aspects of operating a BBS, copyright issues, sysop liability,
  the mission of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, how to deal with
  telephone companies, women online and much, much, more.

  HOW DID THEY DO IT?  Roundtable discussions of the elements of success by
  successful BBS operators in chat/social systems, mail systems, shareware
  libraries, special topic information services, online sales systems, and
  product support BBSss.  Hear Neil Fleming of Canada Remote Systems,
  Rusty Hardinburg of Rusty & Edies, Michael Allen of Odyssey, Kevin Behrens
  of Aquila BBS, and many more.

  PLUS OUR TRADE SHOW EXHIBIT AREA - featuring over 100 vendors of BBS
  software,  hardware, utilities, services, and communications utilities
  including U.S. Robotics, Hayes, ZyXEL,  virtually all major BBS
  software vendors, including PCBoard, Major BBS, Searchlight, TBBS, Wildcat!
  and many more.  Last year, these companies offered such dramatic discounts
  on modems, software, and other utilities that many attendees claimed to have
  paid for their entire trip just on what they saved with special convention
  discount deals.


  If you call bulletin boards, operate a BBS or have contemplated running
  one, sell to the online community, or want to find out what BBS products
  are available for your company to run their own internal system, you won't
  want to miss ONE BBSCON.  Nowhere ever has this much information on the
  topic of electronic bulletin boards and online information services been
  assembled in one place.  Nowhere, at no time, have this many of the
  industry players and personalities been assembled in one place.  Don't
  miss The ONE BBSCON.


                  PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED!

  Boardwatch Magazine will honor the winners of its Boardwatch 100 Readers'
  Choice Best BBS contest held January 1 - July 1, 1993.
  Voters' names will be drawn from all ballots received on or before July 1,
  1993, to receive one of several prizes donated by vendors, including top-
  of-the-line v.32bis/v.42bis modems from U.S. Robotics, Hayes, and ZyXEL!
  The top 10 BBS will be awarded crystal pyramid award trophies on a walnut
  base - along with free advertising in Boardwatch Magazine and listing on
  the Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice BBS List.




                REGISTER EARLY AND SAVE!

                            $175 until May 1
                            $250 May 1 - August 1
                            $325 after August 1.

  On-site registration opens Wednesday evening, August 25.

  Registration, hotel reservations, and vendor booth information
  available from:

                        ONE, Inc.
                        4255 So. Buckley Rd., Ste. 308
                        Aurora, Colorado 80014
                        303-693-5253 voice
                        303-693-5518 fax
                        303-693-5432 BBS



    WHO IS ONE, INC.?

  Online Networking Expositions, Inc. was formed as a Colorado Corporation
  in the fall of 1991 specifically to put on an annual industry trade show.
  This corporation was formed as a partnership venture by Jack Rickard,
  publisher of Boardwatch Magazine, and Philip L. Becker, President of
  eSoft, Inc., and author of the TBBS bulletin board software package.

    PRESIDENT:  Jack Rickard
    SECRETARY/TREASURER: Philip L. Becker

    EXECUTIVE ADVISORY BOARD:

    Jim Harrer, President
    Mustang Software, Inc.
    Wildcat!

    Fred Clark, President
    Clark Development Company
    PCBoard

    Tim Stryker, President
    Galacticomm, Inc.
    Major BBS

    Jim C. Warren
    MicroTimes & Autodesk, Inc.

    Steven Laliberte, Director
    Byte Information Exchange, (BIX)

    Dave Hughes Sr., President
    Old Colorado City Communications

    Stan Hirschman, VP of Operations
    Software Etc.

    John C. Dvorak, Columnist
    PC Magazine

    Lance Rose, attorney and author
    SYSLAW: The Legal Guide for BBS Operators



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 ONE BBSCON '93 PLANS ANNOUNCED
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Preliminary planning for the second Online Networking Exposition and BBS
Convention (ONE BBSCON) has been completed and the '93 event will be held
August 25-29, 1993 at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Over a thousand BBS enthusiasts attended ONE BBSCON '92 in Denver this past
August - by all accounts the most successful face-to-face gathering of BBS
operators, Internet users, commercial service providers, and other
BBS/networking aficionados ever held. Over a hundred educational sessions
were presented during the three-day event.

Approximately 2000 attendees are expected at the 1993 ONE BBSCON as well as
over a hundred vendors displaying modems, BBS software and utilities,
CD-ROMs, and other tools to make PCs talk in the night. Developers of the
PCBoard, Wildcat!, Major BBS, Searchlight, and TBBS software packages have
already indicated participation and are planning presentations. ONE BBSCON
will again be the best available opportunity to examine BBS software packages
close-up and side-by-side. And many of the vendors at the '92 event offered
significant "show special" discounts. If you are looking for a way to find
out specifically what's going on with bulletin boards, how to run one for fun
or profit, or how to put this technology into play for your organization or
company, ONE BBSCON will be the best opportunity you will have in 1993 to see
it all in one place at one time, talk to the developers and players, and
compare product capabilities side-by-side.

For those already IN the BBS community, ONE BBSCON 92 was attended by
virtually every major BBS operator in the country. Everyone from Ward
Christensen, who built the first BBS from scratch in 1978 and wrote the
XMODEM protocol, to Chuck Forsberg who wrote ZMODEM, Tom Jennings, who
started Fidonet, John C. Dvorak who has championed online communications and
written several books on the topic, and a host of the leading BBS operators
from across the country and around the world attended. We look for this
gathering of notables from the BBS community to be even more all encompassing
in 1993. Virtually anyone who is anybody online will be there. If you've
ever wanted to talk face-to-face with some of the pioneers of this industry,
-More-and find out first hand how and why they got started, ONE BBSCON '93 will be
the place to do it.

The '93 event is designed to take advantage of the Colorado Rocky Mountain
environment at its most beautiful time of year. The Broadmoor Hotel is one
of the top five hotels in the country and the most beautiful hotel setting in
the state. Originally built in 1891 and extensively redone in 1918, the
Broadmoor is one of the grand hotel resorts of the west and has earned the
nickname "The Riviera of the Rockies." It has received the Mobil Five-Star
rating every year since 1960 and the AAA Five-Diamond rating since 1976.
Perched at the base of Pike's Peak, this 2400-acre resort is virtually within
view of some of Colorado's most popular tourism stops. The hotel includes
three 18-hole PGA golf courses, 16 tennis courts, an ice-skating rink,
skeet/trap/rifle shooting facilities, horseback riding, fly fishing, a lake,
and other recreational facilities. It features over 100,000 square feet of
meeting space and 36 meeting rooms along with eight different restuarants.
It's located right at the base of Pike's Peak.

This type of environment allows us to do some things that weren't part of ONE
BBSCON '92 - barbecues and bonfires from the top of a nearby mountain - at
night - with a view of the front range from 8000 feet up, for example.

On-site registration opens on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 25th, and
the final closing session is scheduled for late Sunday morning, August 29th.
Golf and tennis tournaments for early arrivals are planned for early
Wednesday.

Opening sessions are scheduled for Thursday morning with educational sessions
beginning Thursday afternoon and running into Sunday morning. Sessions will
again be designed in topical tracks such as Running an Online Service for
Profit, Legal Issues Online, Social and Community Issues Online, BBS
Software, The Internet, as well as a series of mini-symposiums presented by
the developers of various BBS systems for operators who use their software.
The result will again be one of the most ambitious schedules of educational
sessions ever planned for a convention of this type. ONE, Inc. has issued a
call for papers from individuals interested in delivering presentations at
the event with topic proposals/outlines due by March 15 with final paper
submission by June 15. Session proposals should be directed to ONE, Inc.
president Jack Rickard, 5970 South Vivian Street, Littleton, CO 80127.

At the '92 event, there was a vendor space shortage with 51 available spaces
and as a result 11 vendors were turned away. This year vendor space has been
increased to 125 spaces and the vendor exhibits will be open all day Friday
and Saturday.

Rooms are available at the Broadmoor Hotel at a special convention rate of
$150 per night single/double occupancy. A block of some 385 rooms is
available at the Broadmoor, but to handle the expected 2000 attendees, some
900 additional rooms have also been secured at ten other nearby hotels at
rates from $55 to $110 nightly. A fleet of ten buses will provide
transportation between the various overflow hotels and the Broadmoor.

For many, less costly accommodations at one of the outlying hotels will
likely be attractive. But if you do want to actually stay AT the Broadmoor
itself at the convention rate, note that the 385 rooms is a fairly small
percentage of total housing, and we expect this space to go fairly quickly.
Because of the complexity of dealing with 11 different hotels, the ONE, Inc.
office will also handle hotel reservations this year in addition to
convention registrations - you can take care of both with a single telephone
call. ONE BBSCON '93 Registration is priced at

 $175 before May 1, 1993
 $250 between May 1 and July 31
 $325 from August 1 until the show opens.

Contact

ONE, Inc.,
 4255 South Buckley Road, Suite 308,
 Aurora, CO 80013;
 [phone] voice;
 [phone] fax;
 [phone] BBS.

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