Active UUCP Interface
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You can have NEWSGROUPS in your BBS echo bases for your callers, E-Mail to
any InterNet address, or run a Newsgroup EchoMail network. It's a handy
way to add some profit to your system. All you need to do is exchange
packets with an InterNet provider and Act-Up takes care of the rest.
Act-Up is an interface program to reformat messages between any Fido network
and InterNet. Compatibility with almost any BBS message base is achieved by
creating packets any Fido mailer or tosser can process. D'Bridge, FrontDoor
and BinkleyTerm styles of operation are supported. Messages for InterNet
are placed in UUCP deliverable archives and packets. Act-Up's configuration
is completely menu driven with on-line help for each of the 60+ options.
The heading lines of the InterNet messages, which are not required by Fido
systems, are removed so the text of the messages is less cluttered. Any
Fido system messages destined for InterNet have the appropriate InterNet
heading lines created.
Instead of BBS message posters always having to put a To: line at the top of
the message text, Act-Up maintains address lists. Only when an address
Act-Up has not seen is desired is the To: line needed. When replying, it's
not necessary to use a To: line in the text. If you are hubbing InterNet
for a network, Act-Up also remembers node numbers and only caller names are
needed on E-Mail messages coming from InterNet.
Act-Up is designed to make InterNet as transparent as possible to the BBS
callers. Support includes NetMail File Attaches and Return Receipts. For
those BIG messages the InterNet folks like to post, Act-Up will archive them
as ZIP files and make them avaialble for file request.
Version 3.9 increases the processing speed, stores up to 15,000 InterNet
addresses, covers up to 15,000 Newsgroups and handles the satellite BAG
files nicely. Although there is a Vers 4.5 available now, only 3.9 allows
running Act-Up in the demonstration mode.
The progam is written from the Fido system operator's perspective and runs
in the DOS mode on a 286 or better. Act-Up can multi-task and runs happy in
a DOS window for Windows, DesqView, OS2, or LAN networked platforms.
A demonstration copy of Act-Up and what's needed for UUCICO may be requested
from the numbers below using the magic word ACT-UP. Request ACT-UP.DOC for
just the documentation. Act-Up does check messages from InterNet for other
demonstration keys. Your own Key File is required for full unattended
operation. Keys are only $50.00. I'll send your key and the latest version
of Act-Up direct to your system as soon as I receive the order form.
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| Christopher G. Gunn BIZynet BBS: (505) 751-3789 |
| Box 2616 |
| Taos, NM 87571 NetMail: 70:1/0, 1:15/55, 50:5505/0 |
| 24-Hour Voice: (505) 751-3472 InterNet: cgunn@bizynet.com |
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Additional Support Sites:
Jeff Norton Terrapin Station/NCS BBS: (904) 939-8027 v.34
NCS NetMail: 70:4/0, 1:366/105,
Navarre, FL or 50:50/100
InterNet: jnorton@bizynet.com
Roy J. Tellason TANSTAAFL BBS: (717) 432-0764 v.34
17 Glenwood Road #10 NetMail: 70:5/0, 1:270/615
Dillsburg, PA 17019-9481 or 18:2717/120
InterNet: rtellason@bizynet.com
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