On 05/14/97, Ken Hill wrote:
KH> How would a sysop using FIDO go about implementing the possibility of
KH> downloading the files and making them avilable for his members ? Are
KH> there any financial costs involved and is using the web site the only
KH> way to do this ?
Any Fido sysop has access to the Fido Filebone... the files would come in to
your system automatically and (using ALLFIX or similar) get tossed into your
filebases.
I can't see where you are in Canada, but here is a list of Filebone hubs in
Zone 1 (US/Canada). Contact the one nearest you about a feed. There is no
cost unless you poll LD for your feed. If there are other Fido nodes in your
net, see if one of them is getting a filebone feed. That will save LD.
lso,
George Peace and John Souvestre offer an ftp feed for about $20-30 a month.
Let me know (netmail me at 138/272) if you ahve trouble finding a feed.
Once you do, you just request the Chess file echos. Everythinng announced
here goes to the Filebone satellite & landline feeds simultaneously with
eing
announced. The ftp site is for those poor souls with only the Initernet to
rely on . List of Filebone hubs in Zone 1:
% In Zone 1, the Filebone Stars and Hubs connected to them:
%
% 280/1 R Timberman 270/101 G Peace 396/1 J Souvestre
% -------- ----------- -------- ----------- --------
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% 3603/10000 M Murray 104/821 G Funk 12/12 K Wilson
% 120/229 D Plesky 209/720 J LeDuc 102/835 J Reece
% 2222/2 E Georgen 105/72 L James
% 278/304 P Perlman 114/150 D Schepper
% 387/800 G Brann 138/239 D Attig
% 283/120 M Robbins
% 369/54 P Gunderson
% 3828/2 J Woodward
Best regards,
Doug
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