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On 08-29-92, PETER BRANNEN wrote to CHRIS GUSTAFSON:

 PB> This year I hope to set up an in school BBS that will carry K-12 and 
 PB> FIDO conferencestto the entire network during the day and 
 PB> forward/recieve mail at night. 


Peter,
   Doing the same here at Mary Help. K-12 Net was being handled, and still 
is, by a private and local Fidonet BBS. I know of only a few teachers in 
the Dayton area that use the network. I hope to solve this by installing a 
school BBS which can handle nightly e-mail and open the system to other 
area schools. This will also increase exposure of my students to K-12 as 
they may call in at night from home. Many do have modems as indicated by a 
survey we conducted. 
   We are unfortunate in that we don't have Macs at school. All IBM XT's 
that were donated by parents. The BBS is up and running but the mailer 
software, "Frontdoor", has proven to be quite frustrating. I set up a 
similar situation as an experiment at home on my Mac LC and it only took 
about 30 minutes. It would be nice to be able to do this at school as 
well. Principal says we don't have the money. 
   My next move is to enlist the aid of the local BBS running IBM 
software. Thankfully the sysop is going to help to set up software for 
everything I need. I wouldn't have the time to do it myself with teaching 
and everything that goes along with it. He suggested that we use D'bridge 
and Remote Access. After things get running I'm going to advertise through 
local meetings and flyers. 
   I'd be interested to hear how you are going to handle this in your 
school and what software your going to use. 


 
     


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