YEBB
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Also listed as: YEBB/Youth Education BBS / YEE BBS / YEEB BBS /
YEEB / christian

"I used to be a user on YEBB way back in the day, and it was
definitely *not* a Christian board. Also, while it was indeed run
by Ray Christensen, it didn't run RBBS if I remember correctly. My
memory is that it originally ran PCBoard, and at some point he
switched to TSX-BBS. I'm not sure which should be listed - the
PCBoard days were probably YEBB's heyday as it was free then, and
thus had a lot of users, but that was a short period compared to
the later, longer TSX-BBS era where it cost money, but offered a
lot more functionality (including, eventually, Internet access).
In addition, YEBB has been around later than 1996. I know we were
using it at least in December 1997, and I think we stopped
somewhere in 1998 - by this time, YEBB had primarily become an
ISP, although the BBS functionality still existed (although it was
no longer well-used). A Google search for yebb.com (this was
YEBB's domain name) turns up a number of articles, message board
posts, etc. from YEBB users in 1999. The search even turns up one
message board post claiming to come from a yebb.com address in
2002, but I do not know if this is accurate (the user may have
just forgot to update his/her e-mail address on the message
board). However, 2002 *was* the year that Ray retired as the SD
Secretary of Education
(http://www.augie.edu/news/pressrel/general/2005/sep/gen2_25.htm)
so perhaps that was the year that he closed down YEBB - I'm not
sure as we had all moved on well before that time. For more
specific information, you could probably still call Ray
Christensen - he seems to still be operating in Sioux Falls, and
would probably be in Switchboard. It would probably bring back old
memories for him of the times when I used to relentlessly harass
him via the "Contact the SysOp" feature, as well as when other
users used to complain of the various antics I pulled, such as
sending messages to people with "^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G" in
the subject header, causing the receiving computer to start
beeping wildly, even when the victim went into the Mail interface
to delete the messages, and forwarding error messages sent by the
TSX-BBS system and various daemons to people, while changing their
texts to spin a little story about the BBS's various systems
conspiring together to overthrow the humans and take over the
world. It's really a wonder that I never got kicked off that
board." - Anonymous YEBB User

Phone   : 605-331-5831
Place   : Sioux Falls, SD
Years   : 1992 - 1996
Sysop   : Ray Christensen
Software: RBBS-PC

Listed by telephone number, as they all were. A few of
these boards did reach the web: see recoveries-002.txt.
Source  : bbslist.textfiles.com, compiled by Jason Scott

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