
                           The State of the Nation

Spokane Wa.-

The Moonflower BBS:  The sysop of the Moonflower BBS, Cunnus ShaktI, has
                     released the Beta version of his Credit Card Script
                     for VBBS systems.  This will allow sysops to process
                     credit card payments from user using VNET.  Contact
                     the sysop of the Moonflower 1@5092 Vnet for more info.

Spokane Online BBS:  The Sysop of Spokane Online has started his own business
                     and being in a state of entrepreneurial bliss has also
                     started carrying the Home Office and Entrepreneur echos
                     from Fido net.  These are a couple of great places to
                     find out about starting or running your own business.
                     Good Luck Steve!

The Wire Haired
Terrier BBS:         Through the grapevine I hear that Pat Breeden is having
                     hardware problem and has the Terrier down for a bit.  I'm
                     sure that Pat will have it up and running again soon.

The Cybersect BBS:   The Cybersect BBS had it's motherboard crash and has sent
                     it back to the factory to have it replaced.  It will be
                     back up as soon as possible.

Holland Mich.-

Virtual
Technologies BBS:    Roland DeGraaf, author of VBBS, has announced some of the
                     new features that will be in the next release of VBBS
                     (6.10).  One of the major areas mentioned was the File
                     transfer area, look for some nice improvements.  VBBS 6.10
                     is also supposed to use less memory than previous
                     versions and be faster at the same time....
                     No release date as of yet.

Franklin Park NJ.-

The Starship
Bistromath BBS:      Mitchel F. Ludwig sysop of the Starship Bistromath and
                     author of VUUAccess, a VBBS-UUCP mail and message
                     interface program has released version 1.01 of VUUAccess.
                     The new version fixes a bug or two and adds better
                     message handling and now includes message tracking.


     Sysops and BBS users everywhere!  Attention!  If you have news from the
BBS community in your area and want to share it with the world, send it to us
ASAP!  Nothing too big, nothing too small.  The State of the Nation is to let
the BBS community where you are know what is happening in other communities.
Your support keeps the information flowing!

     Send any news to:  Steve Kunz  (editor)
                        1@5091 Virtualnet
                        1@5927 WWIVNet
                        1@4205 Ultranet
                        Steve Kunz @ 1:346/20 Fidonet

                        Online News and Review
                        P.O. Box 10176
                        Spokane Wa. 99209


