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Article #63129Re: Victoria OnLine BBS
From: Melvin Klassen
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 00:00
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Warren McCall <mccallw@tbc.gov.bc.ca> writes:
>Anybody hear about what has happened with Victoria Online BBS?
>They have moved, but I can't track them down for phone numbers, etc.
Road-kill on the information superhighway, I guess.
A few weeks ago, their voice-number disappeared from the index of ISPs
which the Victoria "Times-Colonist" publishes every Tuesday.
Nobody seems to be providing DNS for the domain.
BC Tel has unassigned their telephones.
When the two domains were registered, the following information was given,
including a Vancouver telephone-number, which you're welcome to try:
URL: gopher://net.fonorola.net/00/ca-domain/ca-domain/
registrations-hierarchical/bc/victoriaonline
Subdomain: VictoriaDigital.BC.CA
Date-Received: 1993/10/14
Date-Approved: 1993/10/21
Organization: Victoria Digital Information Service
Type: Commercial
Description: Software and hardware sales and training focusing on
data communications.
Admin-Name: John Boreskie
Admin-Title: Vice President
Admin-Postal: Victoria Digital Information Service
115 - 850 Blanshard Street
Victoria, B.C.
V8W 2H2
Admin-Phone: +1 (604) 384-3988 (not in service)
Admin-Fax: +1 (604) 384-3580 (not in service)
Admin-Mailbox: jboreski@VictoriaDigital.BC.CA
Tech-Name: Dan Parsloe
Tech-Title: Director of Computer Operations
Tech-Postal: (same)
Tech-Mailbox: dpar@VictoriaDigital.BC.CA
Location: 48 38 50 N / 123 25 28 W city
Net-Provider: BCnet
Subdomain: VictoriaOnline.BC.CA
Date-Received: 1993/07/22
Date-Approved: 1993/07/29
Organization: Victoria Online -- Victoria Digital Information Service
Type: For-Profit Corporation
Description: Provides training in LAN and WAN network use and resource
discovery.
Admin-Name: John Boreskie
Admin-Title: Vice President
Admin-Postal: Victoria Digital Information Service
115 - 850 Blanshard Street
Victoria, B.C.
V8W 2H2
Admin-Phone: +1 (604) 384-3988 (not in service)
Admin-Fax: +1 (604) 384-3580 (not in service)
Admin-Mailbox: JohnBoreskie@VictoriaOnline.BC.CA
Tech-Name: Dan Parsloe
Tech-Title: Director of computer operations
Tech-Postal: (same)
Tech-Phone: +1 (604) 739-2977 (Vancouver)
Tech-Mailbox: dpar@VictoriaOnline.BC.CA
Location: 48 30 N / 123 25 W city
Net-Provider: BCnet
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,2e2949dda38bf2c5,start X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen) Subject: Re: Victoria OnLine BBS Date: 1995/11/09 Message-ID: <1995Nov9.231407.10314@sol.UVic.CA> X-Deja-AN: 118983385 sender: news@sol.UVic.CA references: <309E86BF.651F@tbc.gov.bc.ca> organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA newsgroups: bc.general