﻿What is the BBS-Network?
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The BBS-Network connects all Boards among themselves to exchange Board-related
News, Stats and Onlinestatus.

We want that all SysOp's put there local News into the BBS-Network. For that,
every Board gets its own Echo. If needed one in the Home-Language and one for
English international announcements. With the BBSnet your local BBS-News will
spread accross the World and your Chat-Event or your DoorGame-Challenge call
will reach more people as in your own BBS. Also if your Board have planned
offline-times for Maintenance or moving, you can post it into the BBSnet and
let a note in the BBS-Scene what's going on with your Board if it's not online.

Target Group
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User and SysOps from all Countries and continents are peacful invited to
feel at home and share local and world BBS-News.

Target of the Network
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Connect all BBSs among themselves. The Network will break technology borders
like in Germany where Boards with the old ZConnect (Janus) protocol can join
the Network and being part of a connected BBS-Scene.

Structure of the BBSnet
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It will have at least one junction on every continent which one is part of 
the Network. These junction will exchange all the Messages with the Boards
and finaly with the BlackICE BBS. If the BlackICE BBS is offline for more
than 24 hours the Wintermute BBS will take over.

The Nodenumbers/AKAs of the Network
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Role model for the AKAs is the international telephone prefix number.
The Zone is 75: followed by the countrycode. For example: Germany gets
75:49/x, USA and Canada will get 75:1/x and Switzerland would get 75:41/?

Echos
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Every Board that joins the BBS-Network will get his own personal Echo.
The most Echos are BBS-related News boards. But there are a few exeptions.
Points will have an Echo too. But not for each one of them. All points are
sharing an echo. We will offer the Points Echo in two languages. German and
for international discussions in English of course. We want Points to exchance
experiences and help eachother with issues. Also a place for off-topic talk
is there :)

Testarea is reserved for Nodes, testing stuff. Coordination should only writeable
from sysops but readable from all. BBS-List will contain a List of BBS from
all over the world. The European BBS-List will be part of the BBS-Network in
future and accesable from BBSindex.de. Here we go, also the BBSindex.de is an
Echo at the BBSnet. The BBSindex.de is a website about stuff that is BBS-Scene
related. News from there will be also shared to the Network.

FileEchos
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The usual stuff. Nodelist and Infopack FileEchos will be available also an
Echo with the binary type of the BBS-List including pre-build phonebook files
for severals Terminal-programms.