the opening has changed. REALLY it has. ~ notice to all milliwayers, new and old and everyone else in the entire universe and beyond.. due to astronomical amounts of homework, the New MW is not going to be put up until 1988 at the latest. i am deeply sorry but go complain to my teachers or keep yer mouth shut. features to come include: a bbs/user interface with a parser; sort of Sirius Cybernetics' GPP BBS (what a name.. i'll think about that..), and MilliNet, a network of message trading, public and possibly private, between (this is referring to the present, most-confirmable information) mw and fishnet, a BBS in Florida which is already trading with m-net, a BBS in Michigan. Here is the proposed logo (just so you know we mean business): //\/ millinet so please, all you callers, tell the world to call mw, (213) 559-8723, in January, 1988 of the common era. you'll like what you'll see. ~ again, my deepest, sincerest heartfelt apologies. ~ (panic, because) .................. . This Is . ...................... .WMWM milliways MWMWM. .MWMWMwmwmwmwmwMWMWMW. .WMWM ksbbs MWMWM. .MWMWMwmwmwmwmwMWMWMW. .WMWM etc. MWMWM. .WMWMWmwmwmwmwmWMWMWM. since 1987 .WMWMWMWM u MWMWMWMWM. ^ you are here. enter please; make yourself at home! ~ Whether you like it or not, this is Milliways KSBBS and innovative and original concept. Prepare yourself; there are rough waters ahead. The system will attempt to get you to hang up on it... nobody knows why. Look out for endless loops, breaks into machine language (and the BBS isn't even written in machine language), boring conversation (about which you can SURELY do something), and long waits. If you were to ask me the Question, "What can I, a simple user, do?" the first answer I'd give you would be, "Live with it and help out whenever possible," but The Ultimate Answer would be, of course, fortitude. Happy 3-month birthday, mw, September 4th. And happy birthday, me, September 27th. N*O*T*E : all users who do not have ID codes and do not wish to give their name, phone number, password, selection of an id code, and a ten-line letter, hang up NOW or give me fake information. ~ ^ There's //e, c, and IIGS and the right one I have chose Wanted that speed and had a need for lights and switches and buttons and Bose, bits and bytes and buttons and Bose.. ^ ~ ^ GS's sound is the best around tho my programming it slows I love oft that Applesoft and colors from blue to dark red rose in harmony with buttons and Bose ^ ~ ^ I love Music Construction and BBSing's fun When I SysOp my own Milliways tho my users are down to one ^ ~ ^ But I announce up it will bounce if the new rewriting shows Because I'd have on my side spirit, and stuff like buttons and Bose, how can I fail with buttons and Bose? ^ ~ ^ Maybe mw when the program is new will be often called and never blackballed and filled with users both thinkers and schmoosers Including, of course buttons and Bose buttons and Bose buttons and Bose! --Logon poetry, the fourth worst in the universe ~ (the older song parodies follow...) ~ * It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, The regular users log in... There's a new entry in Columns today How to play at Hitchhiker's and win... You said, "how can any BBS thrive now, when the best ones in life are pay "Especially in Los Angeles... where they go up and down every day?" (Oh, LA, LA LA, didi-daa... LA LA, didi-daaaa... da-dum) * ~ * "Write us a board You can SysOp it Write us a board to call Well we all want it to be original And we'll make it the best of 'em all." * ~ * So I spent a month writing Milliways Working, but with bugs galore And I thought and I knew and I felt it was true There would be some hard times in store... I said, "I'm gonna survive those first few months And more like them if I must... "But one thing I'm sure I shall never do is just to give up in disgust" (Oh, naah, naah naah, didi-daa... naah naah, didi-daaaa... da-dum) * ~ * My software's called KSBBS And quite cryptic it became Users, male and female both sent me some E-Mail Asking me what's in that name... I'll admit it, there isn't too much in there but I once felt that there was a need I coined a class of one-touch-menu boards that I call Systems that are Keyed. * ~ * "Write us a board You can SysOp it Write us a board to call Well we all want it to be original And we'll make it the best of 'em all." * ~ * It's been quite a month here at Milliways And I feel there's hope for it yet It will be a while before Milliways' style Spreads all around the world, I'll bet... But until then, we'll all be pioneers and we'll spread the word to a friend And they'll call day and night and Milliways just might Not ever come to an end! * ~ * "Write us a board You can SysOp it Write us a board to call Well we all want it to be original And we'll make it the best of 'em all." * ~ - Come gath'r 'round, users, of any life views... And admit that BBSs that you have used Usually leave you somewhat unamused; "What's missing?" you're wondering always... You're gradually putting together the clues Leading to the BBS called Milliways. - ~ - Come punners and pundits to philosophise and kid... Speak your minds now or always wish you did Pandora's box beckons; come on--lift the lid! It's the best place to misturn a phrase... And hopefully you'll never choose to be rid Of the BBS known as Milliways. - ~ - Come IBMs, Apples; Commodores and the rest... We're not particular and don't care who's the best We'll take anyone who'll just call the BBS! The world can be looked at in funny ways... And if there is a moral to be gleaned from this mess, You'll find it... posted on Milliways.