% Zamfield`s Wonderfully Incomplete, Complete Internet BBS List %%
Publishing Info: June 15th 1992. Published with the Textedit text editor for X-windows. Now Available in Postscript form thanks to Interleaf.
Availablity: Anonymous FTP at Wuarchive.wustl.edu in the /pub directory. E-mail requests can be made to Zamfield@Dune.EE.MsState.Edu. Posted on alt.bbs.internet twice a month.
FOREWORD:
6/15/92 Zamfield@Dune.EE.MsState.Edu
NAME ADDRESS LOGIN BBS Software
TEST SITE 128.2.111.40
- - This site is included to help the designer of it bbs
- - software work out it's bugs. Currently it is ofline,
- - but when it does go online be sure to help out. I
- - included his original post hear because he describes
- - his system better than me.
- - I am working on starting a new bbs that is
- - avaible on the internet. Basically, I am
- - working on writing software and would like to
- - have some people use it and help me to debug
- - it. To login tlenet to 128.2.111.40, port
- - 8888 and just follow the directions. BTW,
- - if you don't get anything when connecting
- - that just means someone else is online. I
- - need to work on it. mail responses to
- - aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu Alex R.N. Wetmore.
- - This is Alex's project not mine.
ANOTHER TEST SITE utbbs.civ.utwente.nl bbs
- - 130.89.1.219
- - Try this place and tell the sysop any bugs
- - you find. Has lots o files, message bases,
- - conferencing, talk, and chat.
- - Sysop Erwin Verwoerd.
AfterFive af.itd.com 9999
- - 128.160.2.249 9999
- - open 24 hours a day now. Weekends and holidays
- - too.
- - MUCK - enhanced tinymuck2.2.10.4d-beta. Based on
- - Bourbon Street, New Orleans. May not be
- - appropriate for all ages, especially very young
- - children as the database is rather graphic in
- - section describing stip tease, and bars.
- - BBS is Citadel like Quartz and Grind. No HotKeys
- - though. Supports 250 concurrent users.
- - Contact Howard, Darrel, Trish, Eyes, or Parade,
- - wizards, if you wish to work on any aspect of After-
- - Five.
BadBoy`s Inn 192.136.108.18 (unstable) bbs Pirate 2.0
- - badboy.aue.com (should be stable)
- - also try nameserver.aue.com (not sure on this one)
- - Be sure to use badboy.aue.com, it will usually get
- - you throught to wherever badboy really is.
- - Boards, Talk, Chat, Mail Test site for new Pirate
- - Software. Pirate 2.0 kicks, if it would work
- - all the time!
- - This site is rather deserted, probably because of
- - difficulty finding the place, but it has a great
- - message base.
Bergon By Byte oscar.bbb.no bbs unknown
- - This is a new site, but not sure about it, so don't
- - go flooding this place until I can confirm
- - its availablity.
- - Large message areas, but mostly norweigan,
- - International conference for anglophones, menus
- - can be shown in english and general bulletins are
- - translated. Lots of files.
- - Has a registration fee, of $60 or $30 student.
Cimarron (in Spanish) bugs.mty.itesm.mx bbs Pirate 1.0
- - 131.178.17.60
- - Send mail to sysop with necessay info(?) and you
- - will be validated after two months.
- - Nice BBS, too bad it is all in Spanish. Good place
- - to get aquainted with if you are trying to learn
- - Spanish, lots of conversations to look at. Cimarron
- - is a type of ram, and is the school pet.
- - Open between 18:00 to 6:00 Mexican Central Time.
Cleveland Free-Net 129.22.8.75 (cwns16.ins.cwru.edu) CWRUBBS
- - 129.22.8.76 (cwns9.ins.cwru.edu)
- - 129.22.8.82 (cwns10.ins.cwru.edu)
- - freenet-in-a.cwru.edu
- - freenet-in-b-cwru.edu
- - freenet-in-c-cwru.edu
- - Usenet, Internet, MUD, USA Today ON-Line. Local
- - mail, and Interest Groups.
- - This site is huge. The entire system is based on
- - a town metaphor, which means to mail people you walk
- - to the post-office , and to talk you go to the rec
- - center, etc. The amount of local/regional infomation
- - at this site is unreal, but most people will be
- - interested in the conversations that go on, and the
- - possiblility of having an account on a system that
- - closely resembles a full unix account.
CueCosy cue.bc.ca cosy Cosy 4.2
- - 134.87.11.200
- - Conferences and Topics. EAN Mail, Usenet, and FTP
- - require a full unix account. Only teachers and
- - educators are eligible for a full unix account.
- - Download messages and mail via Kermit & Xmodem,
- - Online Unix course is being considered, for now
- - a QA conference is available. Some local files
- - are available too.
- - Sysop jnemeth@cue.bc.ca John Nemeth.
Delft University BBS 130.161.180.68 BBS
- - tudrwa.tudelft.nl
- - In Holland, Mostly Dutch. Files, messages, Chat
- - area's
- - VERY large MS/DOS file base, but you have to be able
- - to understand Dutch descriptions.
- - This is probably a very cool bbs, but I doubt that
- - many people seeing this will find it of much use.
Eagle's Nest 131.95.127.2 bbs <passwd bbs> Pirate 1.6
- - seabass.st.usm.edu
- - For info and account request mail
- - nest-resquest@rock.b11.ingr.com
- - boards, 2 chat rooms, IRC, mail, etc.
- - must give name, address, e-mail address, and
- - alias (up to 10 chars). info will be returned
- - via email.
- - sysop gtveda@seabass.st.umv.edu
- - or rocker@rock.b11.ingr.com
Endless Forest 137.48.1.5 2001
- - forest.unomaha.edu 2001
- - Boards, E-mail. Reminds me of WWIV BBS. all-message
- - base. Said to be a kind of poetry/philosophy hangout.
- - If anyone has anything to add to this site's
- - description, I would appreciate it.
Heartland Peoria Illinois FreeNet
- - 136.176.10.10 fnguest
- - heartland.bradley.edu
- - Mail, Public Forum, Recreation, Calendar, Social
- - services, Senior center, Teen center, Local job &
- - government info, Legal, Medical, Tax, & Invest/Banking
- - Forums SIG's, library, Home & Garden, Science & Tech,
- - & Education Forums
- - Community metaphor, and mostly local info.
Hewlett-Packard BBS hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com
- - 15.255.72.16
- - has tech help, and 28/28S/48S/48SX files/programs.
- - New releases, prodouts, and announcements.
- - This is the one and only source if you need
- - something for your Hewlett-Packard calculator. I
- - have see games, sounds, pictures,and nearly
- - everything else for the 48 series at this
IDS World Network 155.212.1.2 guest
- - idsvax.ids.risc.net
- - IDS DataForum is a public access system
- - run on a DEC VAX. It is menu driven, supports
- - VT100, and ANSI graphics.
- - Features, TELNET, FINGER, Weahter Underground,
- - Ham Callsign Book. Adds Internet Mail (VMS Mail).
- - Includes Entertainment, such as, International
- - MUD's, local-only games, CONQUEST & GALACTIC
- - TRADER, and CB Simulator for CHATS.
- - RIME, PC-BBS messaging network, Usenet NEWS with
- - "nearly" full newsfeed.
- - DailOut service, online Game Developer Conference,
- - and BBS software available as well.
- - Local access at (401)-884-9002, (V.32, Telebit/
- - PEP, USR HST, V.42bis).
- - more info at ids-info@idsvax.ids.com
ISCA bbs.isca.uiowa.edu iscabbs DOC (Citadel)
- - → FTP ← bbs.isca.uiowa.edu <ftp server>
- - 128.255.19.233
- - 128.255.19.175
- - Update, can now handle 50 users.
- - 130 message rooms, over 300 megs each of IBM, Mac,
- - Amiga, and other, software. Kermit, XYZModem, or
- - FTP, from the BBS. ftp server at grind.isca.uiowa.edu.
- - private IRC, Internet and IRC access for local users.
- - Online data system Panda.
Mars Hotel Mars.EE.MsState.Edu bbs Pirate
- - 130.18.64.3
- - Boards, Talk, Chat, IRC, Mail.
- - Fairly extensive files,
- - ftp'able, Kermit,XYZmodems,
- - Died recently due to unrepairable hardware
- - failures. This System will probably remain
- - down for a year or so, or indefinately if
- - another machine is not found for it.
- - I will continue to update its status if any
- - changes occur.
- - Send Donations, Money, Machines, Parts, Etc…
- - and Mars can live again with all the old
- - info and files still intact.
- - Mars is/was a Sparc 4/110 that lost a Mongo
- - chip. The EE department might consider ordering
- - a replacement, but has no idea where to get one.
- - Info will be forwarded if sent to Zamfield@dune.ee.
- - msstate.edu. Also, if anyone has a spare 4/110
- - the EE department said that would do just fine.
- - Further info, offerings, etc, contact ME,
- - Zamfield@dune.ee.msstate.edu and I will facilitate
- - the rebirth of Mars if possible.
M-Net hermes.merit.edu
- - 35.1.48.150
- - at the Which Host? prompt type um-m-net.
- - at the MichNet login: prompt type newuser.
- - This is a Public Access UNIX/Conferencing System.
- - 100 Conferences, sh, ksh, csh, bbs, & menu shells
- - for every type of user.
- - write/talk/xtalk/chat for communicating between
- - users, and PARTY for group chats.
National Education BBS nebbs.nersc.gov guest
- - appearantly this site is once again active.
- - If not then someone tell me, I am kinda busy
- - here lately. From past descriptions and experiences,
- - this site is a one person at a time site, but then
- - again I could be wrong. I seem to remeber there
- - being a great deal of neat files.
- - Well this site is private so about all you
- - can do is read posts.
Netcom netcom.netcom.com guest + <CR> at passwd
- - 192.100.81.100
- - voice # 408-554-UNIX
- - Full Unix service. Money for access.
- - $17.50/month ($19.50 for invoiced billing)
- - (408) 241-9760/9794 (San Jose, CA) and
- - (415) 424-0131 (Palo Alto, CA).
Nyx BBS isis.cs.du.edu new
- - 130.253.192.9
- - Full news feed, Local downloads,
- - shell access (with validation),
- - and Ftp. It is a completely free
- - public access Unix system run by
- - the University of Denver's Math
- - and Computer Science Department.
- - Sysop: Prof. Andrew Burt. The system
- - is run by donations on a donated Pyramid
- - 90x with a homebrew menuing system
- - Lots of files, unix shell with registration.
- - Telnet access limited for now, but should be
- - getting a faster system soon.
Olajier 129.31.22.11 Olajier <passwd Olajier>
- - castor.ee.ic.ac.uk
- - Capitals are important for both the login
- - and passwd. This BBS is at Imperial College
- - in London.
OuluBox (Finnish) tolsun.oulu.fi box
- - 130.231.96.16
- - Can set English as prefered language,
- - said to switch to Finnish at the most
- - inconvenient time. IRC
- - Contains boards and files. As mentioned
- - above, just when you get to the good stuff
- - it goes Finnish on you.
The Picayune milo.ndsu.NoDak.edu new
- - star96.nodak.edu 20
- - star24.nodak.edu or star12.nodak.edu for slower speeds
- - 134.129.107.131
- - North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network.
- - readonly News service, file areas, tetris
- - online, local email, and online games.
- - a 386 running unix, 2 80 meg drives, 600 users
- - give or take a few. And Now Ethernet.
- - courtesy(sp) of Marshal Perlman.
- - cool welcome screen.
- - sysop glaeske@cs.uwp.edu
Quartz Quartz.Rutgers.Edu bbs Citadel
- - 128.6.60.6
- - Rooms/Boards. This system is extremely active
- - and the messages move very quickly, so don't
- - be too suprised at the rate of response to posts
- - and you can get left behind very easily.
- - Suggest MUD to chat.
Samba North Carolina 152.2.22.80 bbs Modified XBBS
- - lambada.oit.unc.edu
- - (919)-962-9911
- - offers vi, emacs, rn, NEWS, MAIL
- - local messaging, SIGS, Conferencing
- - Files (Kermit/FTP), & INFO
- - limited NewsFeed.
Softwords COSY softwords.bc.ca cosy Cosy
- - 134.87.11.1
- - Very friendly with good discussions, but 9600
- - baud connection is a pain.
SpaceLink BBS spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
- - 128.158.13.250
- - NASA news, educational materials, ask-a-NASA-
- - person service?
Sparcs BBS ara.kaist.ac.kr bbs Pirate 1.8
- - 143.248.1.53
- - try login in as irc for the irc chat server.
- - boards, local mail, chat, and talk.
TriState Online 129.137.100.1 visitor FreeNetIII
- - tso.uc.edu
- - new FreeNet site.
Virginia Tech Cosy vtcosy.cns.vt.edu cosyreg
- - 128.173.5.10 bbs (for list)
- - Virginia Tech Conferencing System. Offers
- - local conferencing, up to date listing of local
- - BBS's and read only Usenet NEWS. Tons of Messages.
- - No files.
Youngstown Free-Net yfn.ysu.edu visitor
- - 192.55.234.27
The World world.std.com new
- - 192.74.137.5
- - Public access Unix system. 19.2, 96, 24, & 12
- - hundred baud modem connections. 3 GB disk
- - storage. CompuServe Packet Network access.
- - and SLIP connection up to T1.
- - signup, dial 617-739-WRLD, type new. basic
- - rates are $2/hr 24 hrs/day and $5 monthly fee.
- - 20/20 plan, $20 for 20 hrs, including monthly
- - fee. Also available from Compuserve Packet
- - Network. $5.60 surcharge is added to monthly
- - bill. Further info at staff@world.std.com
- - Email to Internet, UUCP, BITNET, CSNET, EUNET,
- - JANET, JUNET, Fidonet, BIX, Compuserve, Applelink
- - and MCImail.
- - USENET, ClariNet, Electronic Mailing Lists,
- - Chatting, Unix Software, GNU Software, Games,
- - Online Book Initiative, AlterNet Acces, Internet.
SERVICES
Service Address Login
Archie quiche.cs.mcgill.ca archie
- - 132.206.2.3
- - archie-client sites.
- - archie.sura.net
- - archie.mcgill.ca
- - archie.funet.fi
- - archie.au
- - archie.doc.ic.ac.uk
- - cs.huji.ac.il
- - Archie is the easiest, fastest, and most convienent
- - way to find files available via anonymous FTP. The
- - archie-client sites are sites that are used for
- - archie front ends to query info, the
- - quiche.cs.mcgill.ca is the original archie site, and
- - you can telnet to and use this archie without a client,
- - although the client is much simpler to use and
- - easier on the server.
DDN Network Information Center
- - nic.ddn.mil
- - 192.112.36.5
- - TACNEWS, WHOIS Server, NIC This site is not nearly
- - as useful as the NIS server listed below.
FTP Mail write mail to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
- - reply <MAILADDR>
- - set reply addr, since headers are usually wrong
- - connect [HOST [USER [PASS]]]
- - defaults to gatekeeper.dec.com, anonymous
- - ascii files grabbed are printable ascii
- - binary files grabbed are compressed or tar
- - or both
- - chdir PLACE
- - "get" and "ls" commands are relative to PLACE
- - (only one CHDIR per ftpmail session)
- - compress
- - compress binaries using Lempel-Ziv encoding
- - compact
- - compress binaries using Huffman encoding
- - uuencode
- - binary files will be mailed in uuencode
- - format
- - btoa
- - binary files will be mailed in btoa format
- - ls (or dir) PLACE
- - short (long) directory listing
- - get FILE
- - get a file and have it mailed to you
- - quit
- - terminate script, ignore rest of mail message
- - (use if you have a .signature or
- - are a VMSMAIL user)
- - you must give a "connect" command, default host is
- - gatekeeper.dec.com, default user is anonymous, default
- - password is your mail address.
- - binary files will not be compressed unless 'compress'
- - or 'compact'
- - command is given; use this if at all possible, it
- - helps a lot.
- - binary files will always be formatted into printable
- - ASCII with "btoa" or "uuencode" (default is "btoa").
- - all retrieved files will be split into 60KB chunks and
- - mailed.
- - VMS/DOS/Mac versions of uudecode, atob, compress and
- - compact are available, ask your LOCAL wizard about
- - them if you can't locate them (but try
- - gatekeeper.dec.com in /archive/pub/VMS if you're
- - still trapped on a VMS system.)
- - several mail unsplitters are hiding on
- - gatekeeper.dec.com in /pub/mail/ua/misc/unsplit.
- - includes one in c, one in perl, and one in VMS DCL.
- - »> examples:
- - → connect to gatekeeper.dec.com and get a root
- - directory listing:
- - connect
- - ls
- - quit
- - → connect to gatekeeper.dec.com and get the
- - README.ftp file:
- - connect
- - get README.ftp
- - quit
- - → connect to gatekeeper.dec.com and get the
- - gnuemacs sources:
- - connect
- - binary
- - chdir /pub/GNU
- - get emacs-18.57.tar.Z
- - quit
- - → connect to uunet.uu.net as anonymous and get a
- - root directory list:
- - connect uunet.uu.net
- - dir
- - quit
GeoServer Martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000
- - 141.212.100.9 3000
- - Provides information by city or area code. This
- - infomation includes population, longitude and
- - latitude, elevation, and various other information.
IRC Client bradenville.andrew.cmu.edu
- - 128.2.54.2
- - Internet Relay Chat access. Not all IRC commands are
- - supported. IRC is similar to the chat system on
- - Pirate BBS's but much more powerful. IRC has channels,
- - which you join to join a discussion, or you can create
- - your own to discuss whatever you like. These sessions
- - are very informal, and topics can stay quickly.
Library Systems →FTP← ftp.unt.edu
- - This site contains a huge, 100-150
- - page, guide to internet libraries.
- - The file is under the library
- - directory. Send thanks and responses
- - to Billy Barron, BILLY@vaxb.acs.unt.edu.
Lyric Server →FTP← cs.uwp.edu
- - these files are available via
- - anonymous ftp. This is not
- - really a telnetable service, but
- - it is nice to know about so I
- - included it.
National Ham Radio Call-Sign Callbook
- - 128.205.32.4 2000
- - marvin.cs.Buffalo.Edu 2000
- - I am very impressed with this service,
- - I have figured out the problem. The
- - name listing did not include the port
- - number. This should clear up any problems
- - with this site.
- - Also, if this site hangs at you commands
- - try hitting enter again. it seems to work
- - fine other than that.
- - any problems should be reported to
- - bowen@cs.buffalo.edu as well as to myself.
NCSU Services ccvax1.cc.ncsu.edu INFO or PUBLIC
- - 152.1.13.4
Network Information Service (Univ. of California at Berkeley)
- - mailhost.berkeley.edu 117
- - 128.32.136.9, 117
- - 128.32.136.12, 117
- - 128.32.206.9 117
- - 128.32.206.12 117
OCEANIC 128.175.24.1 OCEANIC
- - delocn.udel.edu
- - Ocean info center, from the U. of
- - Delaware. Contains technical and
- - scientific info on oceanic research.
- - DOS software for viewing oceanographic
- - graphics.
- - type <$> to logout (no brackets).
Slugnet chat system cons1.mit.edu
- - 18.80.0.88, 2727
- - sorta like IRC
UM-Weather Service madlab.sprl.umich.edu 3000
- - 141.212.196.79 3000
- - This site offers City/State forecasts in most of the
- - major cities. You can also get ski reports and
- - earthquake reports. Very complete service.
Vatech Central Branching Exchange
- - 128.173.16.6
- - vtcbx.cc.vt.edu
- - Access to all local on-campus boards.
- - these boards have messages, files, etc.
- - to get to the Dream World BBS, type
- - C 26964, and hit enter a couple o times.
WAIS server hub.nnsc.nsf.net wais
- - 192.31.103.7
- - quake.think.com
- - 192.31.181.1
- - nnsc.nsf.net
- - 129.89.1.178
- - info at think.com «ftp server>
- - Wide Area Information Service. Gives access to online
- - documents. More info can be obtained from think.com
- - via anonymous ftp.
– ( Thomas A. Kreeger ! The flame's core was glacial crystal, ) ( Zamfield@Dune.EE.MsState.Edu ! shards and facets flashing up, twisting ) ( Jacked in to Internet from ! and gone, leaving behind near-subliminal ) ( somewhere deep in the USA ! images so bright and sharp that they cut ) ( ! the eye. Deke winced. People mostly, ) ( -Gibson & Swanwick, Dogfight ! pretty little naked people, fucking. )