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
% --------    -----------   --------   -----------    --------   
------------
% 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
 * WCE 2.1G1/2269 * 
--- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 
---------------