Jim Venedam wrote in a message to All:
JV> I just set this echo up from my point. I'm not aware of any BBSs in
JV> this net that carry it. A friend of a friend is interested in
JV> tracing her medical history. She has a computer, but no COMM stuff.
Does she have MS Windows?  If so, she could use it's Terminal program as a 
"last resort" to access a BBS system.  It's not real "swift", but it will 
work (sorta-kinda like).
JV> Just wondering if it'd be worthwhile to get her set up with FIDO
JV> access?
The system that you use for your "Boss node", has to be carrying this echo at 
least on a "pass through" basis in order for your to receive it. Does the 
sysop of that system operate a BBS system?  Perhaps you could get him/her to 
add this echo to the rest he/she carries on his/her BBS system so your friend 
could access this echo via that system.  Just a thought...
As far as whether it'd be "worthwhile" for your friend to access this echo, 
that's a tough one to gauge.  There is no one that can guarantee that your 
friend will find her b-family!  That is a fact.  But there are a lot of 
people in this echo who are very helpful and willing to give it a "college 
try".  A lot depends on what information your friend may already have and/or 
what she can find (or dig up).
Michael Kirst
f/k/a Christopher Lee Backus
Sysop of The Noble House BBS
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