Who the fuck is "dueling modems"? Why am I getting this shit at my site? This is dm.com, not dm.net. What a bunch of fucking morons. "Jim RoadRunner" <Wild_Mouse@msn.com> writes:

---------- From: nic Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 1997 5:26 PM To: Jim RoadRunner Subject: Welcome to Dueling Modems!

Dear James,

Welcome to Dueling Modems!

This letter is to confirm that we've received your signup and billing information, and have set up your account.

***** ACCOUNT INFORMATION *****

Acct #: 0032108 ID: wild-mouse Password: railroad Email Name: wild-mouse@dm.net Email Destination: wild_mouse@msn.com

We may have tweaked some of the ID/Pwd information you put on the form, to meet the requirements of our operating system. Please make sure you use the information above when configuring your software.

***** EMAIL INFORMATION *****

If your email destination is "local," you'll need to set up your email program with the following parameters:

POP3 Server: mail.dm.net SMTP Server: mail.dm.net Email Account ID: wild-mouse Email Account Password: railroad POP Account: wild-mouse@dm.net Real Name: (or your "handle") Return Address: wild-mouse@dm.net

***** BILLING INFORMATION *****

You've chosen to be billed by: Credit Card Your first billing month was/will be: Apr-97 Your billing frequency is: monthly

If you've chosen to be billed by check, you'll receive an invoice via email sent to the above destination address.

Electronic Funds Transfer subscribers will receive an additional email containing the information you'll need to provide to your bank to set up the process.

***** NEWSGROUP INFORMATION *****

Your personal members' newsgroup is:

dm.members.wild-mouse

***** WEB PAGE INFORMATION *****

The URL for your personal web site is:

http://www.dm.net/~wild-mouse/

If you've opted to have a personal web page:

To load your web pages, you'll need an "ftp client." This software lets you upload files to a remote server.

(Dueling Modems provides links to several ftp packages on our Software Warehouse web page.)

Configure your ftp client to log onto:

www.dm.net

Make sure you set up the ftp client software to use the ID and password listed at the beginning of this letter. You'll be directly connected to your own directory space.

Once connected, you'll see a sub-directory named "web_pages". Log into that directory. You can then upload your HTML files.

For help in creating your web pages, check into the dm.html.* area on the news server. The staff there are experts, and are delighted to help out.

Apologies for the brevity of these instructions. We'll be creating an Online User's Guide soon, which will include detailed instructions for various software packages. For the time being, though, please ask for help in dm.html.*.

***** USER AUTHENTICATION *****

(aka, Logging into the news server.)

We're beginning to move parts of the service to "subscriber-only" mode, which will require you to set up your User ID and Password in your newsreading software.

User authentication will also be needed to gain access to private areas within the news server. We've set up two groups specifically to test your log-in:

dm.priv-test.announce dm.priv-test.sign-in

Please set up your newsreader for user Authentication now, and refresh your group list to make sure you can reach these two groups. If you can't, check into dm.admin.help-desk.newsreaders for assistance.

Unfortunately, the very popular Netscape Navigator does NOT provide any way of entering your ID/Password when you try to connect to DM's server, which means that eventually you won't be able to reach the BBS with Navigator. :(

The solution is to use a different software package. We recommend Free Agent for Windows users and NewsWatcher for Mac users. Both of these packages are free and available from DM's Software Warehouse web page:

http://dm.net/software.htm

We're taking our time in making this conversion, btw., so as to make sure nobody gets caught unable to reach us. So don't worry about that.

Of course, installing and learning new software always takes time and often requires a bit of hand-holding. Again, feel free to check into the dm.admin.help-desk.newsreader group for help. That group will be publicly available for some time to come.

As mentioned above, we will be setting up an Online User's Guide on the DM web site. Installing and configuring software will be covered extensively. But for the meantime, please use the help desk newsgroup.

Again, welcome to Dueling Modems. If you have any questions, feel free to drop me an email at:

sysop@dm.net

If I don't know the answer, we'll find somebody who does. ;)

Nic Grabien President, Dueling Modems

--- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps