BBSmates Newsletter Topics for Friday, October 04, 2002
 - Added Features
 - Coming Soon
 - One Last Note

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 Added Features
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BBSmates Merchandise
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BBSmates is a free service for all of us old school BBSer's to use.
If you enjoy visiting the site, consider shopping at our online store
to show your support (and help spread the word!). To make things 
easier for you to find, I've set up two stores. For each logo there 
are mugs, t-shirts, coasters, posters, and so forth. If anyone else 
has an idea for another logo, please email me. If I choose to use 
your design, you'll get a free t-shirt with your logo design on it.
Submissions must be 300 dpi and must fit in a 8"x10" or 10"x8" area.

Web Links
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I know many people have linked to bbsmates.com, and I really
appreciate that. Using this, you can add a link back to your 
website. The links are classified into different categories so 
others can easily find the BBS-related (or non) site they're 
looking for. All I ask is that if you add your link, place a link 
on your site to me. thanks!

BBSmates Stats
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This page contains the current number of users registered on the 
site, total number of BBSes in the database, the number of users 
currently online, the newest BBSes added to the database and the 
newest users to register on the site.

Search Result Sort
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I know this was annoying the hell out of some people, so if you 
click on the headers in a search results page, it will sort by 
that field. Click once for ascending order, click again for 
descending order.


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 Coming Soon
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Here are some things that have been suggested to me, to add to the 
website. In no particular order:

1) an ANSI art gallery
2) notification email when a new BBS is added in your specified 
   area code
3) allow the sysop to upload a graphic for their BBS
4) allow multiple area codes per one BBS
5) additional fields to specify your chat info (like MSN, AIM, ICQ)
6) add a comment field so user's can just say in general what 
   they've been up to

I'll add these features to the site as time permits. If you can 
think of something else, I'll take just about anything into 
consideration.


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 One Last Note
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Thanks to everyone who checked out the site after reading about it 
at Slashdot! For those of you who are new, I like to send out a 
newsletter about once a month just to keep people informed about new 
things on the site. If you'd rather read it on the website or just 
not read it at all, log in, click "Edit Profile" and uncheck the 
BBSmates Newsletter option. For those of you who might have left 
because the site was too slow, I can say things are running much 
better now.. :)

I'd like to send a special thanks to Stephanie Parker 
(sparkerdesigns.com) for designing the BBSmates logo.

NEW POLL - What's the best aspect about BBSing?  go vote!

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Aron Hoekstra
BBSmates - dialing up the past
http://www.bbsmates.com
nullvalue@bbsmates.com