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I am the BBS/online service reviewer for MicroTimes, one of the Bay Area
computer publications.  I mostly (but not exclusively) write about Bay
Area BBSs.

ere have been two BBS lists floating around Bay Area BBSs for quite some
time.  I have been advised that the problem with trying to maintain even
*lists* is that it is a *lot of work* to keep them up to date.  What
comes up often comes down.  So it seems pointless to do all the hard work
of a review and maintain review lists *on any scale*.

But I do have a work-around.  I am going to bring up a central information
BBS (by renting space on someone else's board) to store my reviews for
download (and they are mine, folks--if they've been copied, it's without
my permission), to gateway the Usenet BBS newsgroups, and to set up a
couple of local message areas for *non-technical* discussions of the
virtual world.  Unfortunately, I am mostly unemployed right now and can't
afford even the small charge this board will cost me, so I've had to put
it off until I can support it financially.

So you might consider doing the same thing in Seattle--it would act as a
central database, and you could, of course, add anything you wanted to
your downloads (with permissions, of course).  And miscellaneous lists
will find their way to you if you let people know you're looking for them.
Just today someone sent me a *huge* list of national religious BBSs,
supposedly updated 7/12/92.  And there are other people who maintain
lists of specific types of BBSs--I know someone maintains a list of
medical/health/EMT BBSs.  You'll find these things once you start looking
for them.

Just a thought.
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Kathleen Creighton                     {pacbell,hplabs,apple,ucbvax}!well!casey
San Francisco                          casey@well.sf.ca.us
       Just another annoyingly devoted Akita owner