Special Projects BBS will be expanding in the next few months. The initial phase will involve the addition of a few extra phone lines.
The extra phone lines are necessary because the present single node is getting roughly one hundred calls per day. The additional nodes will lighten this load and allow more users to get on-line.
The first new node that will go operational is +353-51-70300. This node will be running on a separate computer to the main BBS computer. The modem on this second node will also be a Zoom V.Fast 28k8 modem.
As a subscriber to Hack Watch News, you are entitled to full access to Special Projects BBS. Full access gives you 90 minutes of on-line time per day and 3 MB download per day.
Over the next few months, the BBS will be hooking up to the Internet. At the moment the internet address of Special Projects BBS is wizardr.ie. As a subscriber this would give you an internet address of your.name@wizardr.ie.
The BBS will be running on UUCP connection to the Internet until October. In October, a dedicated leased line will be in position. This will allow direct internet access to the BBS. You will be able to access Special Projects BBS for the price of a local call to your internet provider.
An experimental FTP site will be on-line at weekends only. This service will be strictly experimental and will probably be stable in late July. The IP address will be published in a future issue.
The FidoNet echomail area SATELLITE has been taken over by a new moderator. The new moderator, one Philip Crookes, has ruled that all discussion of hacking/scrambling systems is now off topic. He was not elected but gained the moderatorship in a sneaky manner.
This is clearly a move against free speech and has disgusted many long term users of the echo. Other long term users were becoming irritated by the amount of Season/MacAccess questions being asked.
According to the posts in the echo, Crookes is apparently some form of journalist. This makes his moves against freedom of speech all the more strange. He can't be much of a journalist if he doesn't believe in the freedom of speech!