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ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙDuring the Christmas holidays, 
The Bottomless Abyss BBS will be holding it's
BBS Discovery Contest. During the event, you could win man
y exciting prizesjust by visiting the BBS. You can also 
get more points by doing some of thetasks listed in the 
HOW section below. The participants with the more poin
tswill get to choose a prize from the list below. More p
rizes will be addedú during the holiday se
ason, so get a head start and get your account now!
:| WHEN   ³ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
Between December 19th 2018 and January 18th 20
19, from midnight to midnight,ú eas
tern standard time.:| WHO    ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙAnyone can participate, as soon as y
ou have an account on the BBS, you areú el
igible.:| HOW    ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙHaving a validated account 
on the BBS gives you 5 points. But there is many
additional ways of doing extra points. The goal is to discover the BBS a
ndthe scene in general.þ 
Each level gained in the following doorgames will g
ive 1 point.Ambroshia: Test of Time, 
For Honour, LegionRPGþ 
Each message posted on the following networks will 
give 3 points.ArakNet, SpookNet 
(Due to their more specific/technical topics)
þ Each message posted on the following netwo
rks will give 2 points.fsxNet, tqwNet
, GameNet, DoRENET, PascalNet, 
LinuxNetþ Each message poste
d on any other network will give 1 point.
þ Each message posted to the SysOp will give 
1 point.þ A twit, bogus, nonsense
, copy/paste or offtopic message is worth -1 point.
ú þ Each useful file upload, zipped with a valid FI
LE_ID.DIZ file is 5 points.:|
 PRIZES ³ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙThe win
ners of the contest will get to pick from the following prizes, in
order of points, starting from the highest. Please review the bulletin o
nthe BBS for updates as new prizes gets added.
þ One (1) pass for Hackfest 2019 security 
event in Quebec City.þ Two (2
) Sentinel figurines, The Bottomless Abyss BBS Spe
cial Edition.þ One (1) Hac
kfest T-shirt, subject to size availability.ú 
þ Hackfest and The Bottomless Abyss BBS s
tickers.:| WHERE  ³
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙYou can connect to the BBS using 
the following methods:þ https://bbs.b
ottomlessabyss.netþ telnet://bbs.bottomlessaby
ss.net:2023þ ssh://bbs.bottomlessabyss.net:222
2You need an account first to use SSH, you
 can create one from the secureweb based terminal on the
 website. Follow the https link for all theinstructions.

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