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Re: Victoria OnLine BBS

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From: Melvin Klassen
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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References: <309E86BF.651F@tbc.gov.bc.ca>

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From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
Subject: Re: Victoria OnLine BBS
Date: 1995/11/09
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