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               Welcome to the International Publishers Exchange
                  (known fondly to those involved as PUBNET)

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ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS EXCHANGE...

    The International Publishers Exchange (IPE) is a non-profit international 
organization staffed entirely by volunteers. Among its members are private 
individuals, corporations, and institutions, all of whom are involved in the 
many aspects of electronic and print communications, such as desktop 
publishing, presentation graphics, printing, advertising, and technical 
documentation.

    Anyone can join IPE, either as a casual user or active participant. The 
goal is to create a "User's Intelligence Network," where members may share 
experiences, ask questions, and gain insight into the use of these powerful new 
technologies.


ABOUT THE BBS NETWORK...

    Central to the achievement of IPE's goal is PUBNET--a telecommunications 
network linking bulletin board systems around the world. This network is based 
on the same technology as the popular FIDONET EMAIL system. Messages and files 
are distributed to participating PUBNET BBSs on a daily basis. A message 
entered on one of these boards is "echoed" to all other PUBNET boards 
throughout the world.

    Whether you are creating a church newsletter, a major corporate brochure, 
or investigating the latest in multi-media, you will find PUBNET members more 
than willing to help and share their experiences. You are also encouraged to 
help others in their publishing and communications efforts.

    Key to PUBNET are the various conferences, each dealing with a specific 
aspect of PUBNET or electronic printing and publishing. The current PUBNET 
conference list includes:

  INTROPUB    - Introduce yourself here and find out about PUBNET
  PUBNET      - PUBNET administration
  VENTURA     - Discussions of Xerox's Ventura Publisher
  PAGEMAKER   - Discussions of Aldus' PageMaker
  COREL       - Talk on products from Corel, including but not limited to Draw!
  POSTSCRIPT  - Postscript printers and programming tips
  LASERMASTER - Talk about LaserMaster's printer controller cards
  JLASER      - Talk about TallTree's JLaser printer controller card
  GEM         - Discussions of the GEM Desktop environment
  PRODUCTION  - Publishing in a production environment
  AUTOPUB     - Automatically generated network messages, file releases, etc.

    Join the INTROPUB conference first and let us know about yourself. If you 
need help finding out where to go within PUBNET to find an answer INTROPUB is 
the place to start!
 

A FINAL NOTE...
 
    Because the International Publishers Exchange is a fledgling organization, 
PUBNET is still in the building stages. Current activity is concentrated on 
setting up hubs, testing links and distributing the core echo conferences. The 
boards noted with an asterisk in the accompanying DTPBBSxx list are current 
participants in the IPE and PUBNET. At this writing, not all of the boards are 
connected for all of the echo conferences, but it is hoped that those that 
aren't will be soon.
    Come join us! 

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