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Hi Rachel,
How about if I setup a *NIX box here at my office for you to use?
I have one that I'm running my personal stuff on, and if possible, I
can add to it to handle your gateway too.  Give me some details on
what you need from the box, and we'll see if we can put something
together here. I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.x on my boxes.

I have a number of older computers in storage, early Pentiums and
such that I'm sure I could scrape together for another machine if
required.

IceBear, room and bandwidth to spare.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bardroom2{at}tantech.com 
> [mailto:owner-bardroom2{at}tantech.com]On
> Behalf Of Fido
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: bardroom2{at}tantech.com
> Subject: [BR-2] A Little help needed
> 
> 
> Oganization: Netside Corp
> Reply-To: rveraa{at}netside.net
> Message-ID: 
> Lines: 41
> 
> #Date: 16 Dec 02  10:48:00
> #To: All
> #From: Rachel Veraa
> #Subject: A Little help needed
> 
> 
> If any of y'all enjoy the fidonet/internet gateways of 
> BARDROOM, WRITING, and
> MUSE, this is an appeal for its continuance.
> 
> As you may know, my ISP contributed free service from 1995 to 
> the summer of
> 2001, but since has been obliged by deteriorating business 
> conditions, to
> charge me the regular rate of $15.00US per month (or $165.00 
> a year).  I've
> been trying to cover this myself, but $15.00 is half my 
> monthly allowance, with
> which I have to buy clothes, books, paper and computer 
> supplies, and everything
> else not included in my basic room, board, and medical care.
> 
> I see no way I can continue ISP coverage without help.  If 
> worse came to worst,
> I know I could find some free email service for my personal 
> mail, but I would
> not be able to run the gateway and would have to drop FidoNet 
> without access to
> a full Unix server, and would have to drop my web site as well.
> 
> I'm embarrassed to be sitting here asking for money, but I 
> can't see any way
> around it.  I thought I could send financial reports to everyone
> who contributes (I don't know if specific contributors should be 
> acknowledged or
> held anonymous -- what do you think?).
> 
> Of course, if you have any suggestions or other ideas, please 
> post them here. 
> I've really enjoyed passing all these messages back and forth 
> between Internet
> and Fidonet every morning and hope you -- whichever side of 
> the gate you're on
> -- enjoy reading them and keeping in touch.  And I really 
> hope it can continue.
> 
> Thanks, and love to all.
> 
>        N'a pale pi ta,
>            Rachel
> 
> http://www.netside.net/~rveraa/
> --- timEd/2 1.10.y2k
> 

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