BOF CSRNet F.A.Q. (Frequently Asked Questions) (June 20, 1993) Forward: ======== Hopefully this document will cover any other questions you may have that have as of yet gone unanswered. If not, please, when you send me a message, make sure to include the question that you felt was unanswered and I will try to cover it in one of the other documents, or I will include it in this one. F.A.Q.'s ======== Q. Does CSRNet carry the InterNet Private E-Mail conference, and if so, if I was to carry CSRNet, would I be able to write a message on my system to someone on CompuServe, for instance? A. YES. The InterNet Private E-Mail confernce was one of the first items that we connected into when CSRNet was formed. You can, and will be able to write a message on your system to anyone that you have an InterNet address for. This includes, just to name a few, Delphi, CompuServe, America Online, AppleLink, AT&T EasyLink Sevices, BitNet, Connect, Genie and FidoNet. Q. If I become a HOST and feed other systems locally, do they have to send you $10 a month as well? A. NO. The only fee I require is the $10 per month fee I charge for systems that get their mail DIRECTLY from me. This fee is to help cover the cost of my monthly connection fee as well as my phone bill to bring in this feed Long Distance. You can and are highly encouraged to pass your feed onto other local systems. You may also implement a monthly fee of your own to help cover your cost of bringing in CSRNet Long Distance. Q. Can I feed other systems that are NOT local to me? A. MAYBE. If you are currently the only HOST in your State or Province, and there are other systems in your Region, ie, State or Province, and you are recieving a majority of the newsgroups being carried by CSRNet, then all you have to do is ask to become an RC and that will entitle you to feed Long Distance systems in your Region. Q. Do you use the same addressing format and Interface as a true InterNet connection? A. Because most BBS software limits the number of characters allowed in the "TO:" field of a message, we use a slightly different format that handles the job quite well and is just as effective. Please refer to the INTERNET.INF file that accompanied this document. It contains all the specific information that you may be looking for. Q. If I don't want to poll you in Cananda for the mail, can I poll a CSRNet system in the United States instead? A. MAYBE. If there is a HOST CSRNet system in your State, then I will be more then happy to allow you to get the mail from that system, as long as I am notified before the feed is established. This applies to Long Distance systems only. If, however, there isn't a HOST CSRNet system in your State, I would prefer that you poll me for the mail and if you wish, I can make you the HOST CSRNet system for your State. Q. If I wanted to be a State or Provincial RC and wanted to recieve ALL of the newsgroups that were being carried, how much mail would that be on a nightly basis? A. At the present time, I am bringing in about 1.5 megs of compressed mail nightly, for the 60 some odd newsgroups we are currently carrying. Q. What special Software do I require to carry these InterNet Newsgroups and the InterNet Private E-Mail Conference? A. If you are currently carry Echo-Mail, such as FidoNet, you have everything that you need. If not, you will need to pick up a program for your specific BBS software that will allow you to toss Echo-Mail into your BBS conferences. Closing: ======== I hope I have managed to answer most of your questions. If there are still some questions that have been left unanswered please send me a netmail message and I will try and answer it for you as quickly as possible. You might even want to leave me a line stating that your question might be worthwhile in this document. You may reach me anytime at the following: CSRNet - 11:11/0 InterNet - tim.lajoie@cld9.sccsi.com FidoNet - 1:222/21 Voice - 1-705-949-9275 BBS - 1-705-942-5370 Cheers! Tim Lajoie, Founder of CSRNet EOF