Notes from the Server

Notes from the Server



Author: Steve Kayner, SMUGgler's Administrator

Date: Janurary, 1994

Keywords: SMUG BBS

Text:
Notes from the Server
     By Steve Kayner, SMUGgler's Administrator
          Thanks to Adobe Systems Incorporated, we now have the means
to provide an online newsletter that meets the justifyably high
standards of our Editor-in-Chief, Casey Meaden. 
          We will be using the Adobe Acrobat products (reviewed
elsewhere in this issue by yours truly) to create a version that is
just like the hard-copy, only much better. The online version will
offer color graphics, hyper-text links, text searching, zooming, and
high quality printing. We will be able to update the newsletter with
annotations, and to place bookmarks at points of interest.  
          To read our new Known Users Online, you will need to acquire
a copy of the Acrobat Reader software. We have applied for a site
license for the Readers, and hope to receive the right to distribute
them to SMUG members within the next two weeks. 
          For those who can't stand to wait, the Acrobat Reader is
available free of charge from Apple on their Software Dispatch CD-ROM,
and can be obtained by calling 1-800-937-2828 ext. 600. If you don't
have a CD-ROM drive, those of us who do will extract the Reader from
the disk, and upload it to you via SMUGgler's e-mail. 
          Three Known Users back issues in the Acrobat PDF format have
been uploaded to the Known Users-Electronic conference for those of you
who already have the Acrobat Reader. 
          And now, the numbers: 
          This last month, we had an average of 94 log-ins per day,
with 20 minute connect times. That's 31 hours of connect time daily,
which is only 32% of the total time available. We hit a high of 119
log-ins on Wednesday, 12/15/93. We've had a total of 446MB of files
uploaded (thanks Paul) and 1.4GB downloaded (thanks Sean and Mitch)
since SMUGgler's was started on 5/19/93. 
          We have started two new local conferences: Young SMUGgler's,
and Tele-School Project. Young SMUGgler's is where the sons and
daughters of SMUGgler's carry on in their own style of communication.
Tele-School Project is where discussions about projects for education
oriented telecommunications in our part of the State are discussed. By
the time you read this, we will have had an up- close and personal
meeting of the minds to brainstorm on the directions we should take to
forge this morass of ideas into a reality. 
          We have also added two OneNet conferences: Apple Press
Releases, and Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D). Apple Press
Releases is where late breaking news from Apple is posted, and is
read-only. The AD&D conference is where we keep the advanced dungeons
and dragons...I guess... 
          We are only a week or two away from having the latest
FirstClass server software installed. The biggest news here is that it
will allow private messages to be sent between any two parties on the
OneNet. 
          We are still running the modem loaner program for SMUG
members. We have several 2400 bps Hayes modems to loan out for a period
of two weeks to get you online to SMUGgler's BBS. We will install the
modem and software, and show you how to use the system for no charge.
If you like having access to SMUGgler's BBS, and find that you'd like
to keep the loaner modem, you can then purchase the modem for the
paltry sum of $45. Over 90% of our members have already signed on to
SMUGgler's. It doesn't cost any more than you already paid for SMUG
membership, so try it, you'll like it. Call me (Steve) at 445-3454. 
          Late breaking news:  On January 1st in the wee hours of the
new year SMUGgler's suffered a hard disk "crash." Ultimately this
resulted in losing a week's worth of messages as we used the latest
backup tape (a week old) to restore the BBS files to another hard
drive.  We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
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