BBSmates Newsletter Topics for Friday, August 15, 2003


I know I sent out a newsletter last week, but I had some extra time
this week and added a bunch of cool stuff that I thought you might 
like to know about.


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 New Features
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Post & Reply Notifications
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There is now a feature which allows you to receive an email 
notification when someone replies to one of yours posts in the 
forum. There is also a seperate notification which will let you 
know when someone posts a message to a BBS forum that you are a 
member of. To check if you're signed up for this, log into BBSmates
and click Edit Profile. Scroll down to the bottom to see these
options.


Upload an Image for your BBS Listing
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If you were the sysop or are a member of a particular BBS, you can
upload an image file to the BBSmates server to be displayed beneath
the details of your BBS. The image may be a screenshot of the intro 
ANSI you had on your BBS or maybe a picture of your computer room 
at the time, whatever you want!

Check out this page for more information:
http://www.bbsmates.com/uploadimage.asp

Check out this listing for an example:
http://www.bbsmates.com/XQ/ASP/id.147155/QX/viewbbs.htm


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 Interview with John Pritchett
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John Pritchett is the current developer/owner of the popular door 
game Trade Wars.

The first versions of Trade Wars dates back to the early 80's, with
ideas borrowed from people back in the early 70's. John has been 
the sole working on Trade Wars since 1994 and acquired all rights 
to the game in October, 2000. His involvement with the game has 
included making it multiplayer, 32-bit, and writing a stand-alone 
game hosting server called Trade Wars Game Server.

Questions to be asked for this interview will be submitted by you, 
so feel free to ask John any questions relating to Trade Wars 2002, 
TWGS, past versions of Trade Wars or whatever else you're 
wondering about.

Go here to post your question(s):
http://www.bbsmates.com/question.asp

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 BBSmates Door Game News
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A second BRE game has been added for those of you who couldn't get
into the first game due to the 25-player per game limit.

I reset the Trade Wars game today, with 5000 sectors rather than
just 1000. Multiplayer should be a little more enjoyable now.


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Aron Hoekstra
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