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:87Jul29 6:10 am from Robert Bequette

::Well, I just finally got copies of the CitaNews. I had no idea of the network of Citadels and its "mutant" children. Since it was asked for in one of them I am here to tell about my particular "mutant": Acropolis.

::I guess I should start with a little history:

::The following is not meant to offend anyone, if it does I'm sorry, but it is an important part of the history of Acropolis.

::It started out last September as a question to me from another man (Will Bennett) on one of the local DYM's asking if I knew of any BBS for gays in Sacramento. I replied that there were none and then the conversation evolved into a discussion of the need for one and the general shortcomings of DYM. It started out with Will supplying the hardware and me writing a custom BBS for it.

::Since I have been a fan of Citadel since first running into them about two years ago, it was natural for me to select it as the format of choice. And on November 1, 1986 Acropolis, Sacramento's first and only BBS dedicated to the interests of gay and bisexual men, was up and running. As for one supplying the hardware and the other software, it no longer matters since on Acropolis's first month anniversary Will and I moved in together. For those of you wondering where the name Acropolis comes from it means "A Greek Citadel" (there is a joke in there somewhere).

::Ok, enough of that. The current incarnation of Acropolis (version 1.8) is essentially Citadel (the original) with extensive matchmaking capabilities; the current questionnaire (with 214 different test points!) is tailored to gay males but can easily be reworded to match all combinations. The only things missing are XModem transfers and the <.R>ead lobol-New commands, both of which are being included in the first complete rewrite christened "version 2.0". In addison to matchmaking, several other things have been in 1.8 or are being added to 2.0:

::Multiple user levels being extended from four to eight.

::<.R>ead ocate ew/orward which search messages for a string.

::Users can delete their private mail.

::"Random" mail a message to someone, but you're not told who.

::All the sysop functions are being moved into the BBS itself.

::There are several new sysop functions including: Setting the function keys, undeleting an account, controlling a user's access to the board (time limit and so on), doing a password dump and so on.

::Several new type of room options: Auto-record message in a text file. Disclaimer message printed on entry to a room. A Sysop+> room like the Aide*> room; Sysop room is to Aides like private rooms are to regular users. Chats are automatically recorded to a text file. The only change to the Aide commands is that they no longer have the ability to delete accounts but they will be able to suspend access to it.

::There are lots of other little things, but then this message would be much too long.

::Acropolis is currently running 24 hours a days with a 4 Meg message base (we get A LOT of private mail), and about 150 active (call at least once every three weeks) callers, 64 rooms (going to 128). The phone number is (916) 967-5817.

::System configuration: IBM PC/AT clone, 30 Meg hard drive, 1.2 Meg floppy, 3.5" 720K floppy, Hayes Smartmodem 2400b.

::Version 1.8 and below will not be released into public domain, but 2.0 and up will be released in two versions: one with and one without matchmaking. Release will be in both executable and Turbo Pascal source.

::What's in the future? 2.1 will support multi-user (under plain vanilla PC-DOS), and after that hopefully networking. Plains are also under way to port it over to the Macintosh and Amiga. -- Robert Bequette

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