CHAPTER 13
              CONNECTING TO OTHER FREE-NETS


You can connect to a number of other Free-Net systems by 
choosing Communications Center on the main menu and The 
Teleport (on the CC menu).

NOTE:  The list may be shorter or longer when you 
       access it.

1.   About the Teleport
2.   Big Sky Telegraph [visitor id is bbs]
3.   Buffalo Free-Net [visitor id is freeport]
4.   CIAO! Free-Net - Trail, B.C. [visitor id is
      freeport]
5.   Cleveland Free-Net [visitor id is guest]
6.   Columbia Online Information Network (COIN)
      [visitor id is guest]
7.   Dayton Free-Net  [visitor id is visitor]
8.   The Denver Free-Net [visitor id is guest]
9.   Free-Net Erlangen-Nuernberg [visitor id is gast]
10.  Finland Free-Net [visitor id is visitor]
11.  Heartland Free-Net [visitor id is bbguest]
12.  Lorain Free-Net [visitor id is guest]
13.  National Capital Free-Net (Ottawa, Canada)
      [visitor id is guest]
14.  Prairienet [visitor id is guest]
15.  Tallahassee Free-Net [visitor id is visitor]
16.  Tri-State Online [visitor id is visitor]
17.  Victoria Free-Net [visitor id is guest]
18.  Youngstown Free-Net [visitor id is visitor]


The Cleveland Free-Net is by far the biggest and busiest. 
It is also the first.  It is interesting to connect to 
these sister systems and get some view as to the diversity 
of information and interests that can be displayed on 
these community based information systems.  Since they are 
all running the same software, navigating through each 
system is the same as on OSFN; only the information is 
changed.

A connection to any Free-Net can be made simply by 
selecting the desired system, and then after the 
connection is made for you, by logging into the system as 
a guest user.  Each system has a variation of this.  Be 
sure to use the right login.

Remember most allow registered users from distant systems.  
If you get a user id of your own on their system you can 
have access to many features not available to "guests".

Once logged in as a guest user, you can do many of the 
same things that you can do on OSFN, with similar 
restrictions; no mail, no postings to discussion groups.

It should be again noted and emphasized, that all of these 
Free-Nets allow distant users to register as a user, and 
once registered, these restrictions are eliminated.  The 
process for registering is explained on-line on each of 
the systems.

It should be noted that while you are connected to these 
other Free-Nets via OSFN, you are strictly a user of the 
other system, and OSFN does not know, or care, what you 
are doing.

In particular, if you save files or send or receive mail 
while on the other system, all of that resides on the 
other system and not OSFN.

If you want to save information from the remote system it 
is probably easiest to use the capture facility on your 
terminal emulator, and thus have it on your own machine 
rather than as a file on a distant system.

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