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December 1996PINE 'print' command enabled. (12/27)The Buffalo Free-Net presents the Community Events Calendar (12/17) Another animated Christmas greeting - requires a VT100 or compatible terminal type. (12/10) Cross Cultural Poetics SIG now online. (12/3) Animated Christmas greeting - requires a VT100 or compatible terminal type. (12/3) Statistics for November posted. (12/2)
November 1996The Holiday Pages, Chanuka, Christmas, and Kwanzaa links are now online. (11/29)Animated Thanksgiving greeting - requires a VT100 or compatible terminal type. New SIG: Town of Amherst (11/11) Search feature added to the Frequently Asked Questions area. (11/10) Statistics for October posted. (11/1)
October 1996The Thanksgiving day page is now available. (10/28)The Halloween page is now available. (10/12) Links to the presidential campaign web pages added to the Government page. (10/10) Statistics for September posted. (10/1)
September 1996New SIG: The Kid's Room (9/27)The ACC dial string has 8 T1s down which is presently reducing it to 34 dial lines. The problem has been isolated to a DS3 failure withing Nynex. ACC is currently working with NYNEX on the problem and hopes to have a resolution shortly. (9/24 12:42) - Fixed (14:15) We were experienceing mail delivery slowness. It should be OK as of noon. (9/20) Urban Christian Ministries SIG is now available. (9/10) Statistics for August posted. (9/3)
August 1996XMODEM protocol for downloading files added to the browser and the file transfer page. (8/28)ZMODEM and YMODEM upgraded to version 3.40. (8/28) 2,407 accounts which had not been accessed in 180 days were removed. (8/23) All .exe and .zip files older than 3 days were removed. We recovered over 200 Meg of disk space. (8/23)
Web search feature added to the browser's 'g'oto command.
Press the letter 'g' then type in
YMODEM added to the file transfer protocols. (8/11) ZMODEM added to file transfer protocols. (8/10) Network access is temporarily unavailable due to a problem on our Internet provider's end. (8/8) Free disk space is down to about 100 Megabytes. Please remove all uneeded mail and files from your work directory. Jump 'files' to manage your personal filespace. (8/7) Began archiving Patrick Crispin's Roadmap 1996 series. (8/4) Statistics for July posted. (8/1)
July 1996We are aware of and working on the "I can't change my password" problen. (7/2)Statistics for June posted. (7/1)
June 1996Added an enhancement to the browser's 'g'oto command that recognizes 'bfn/' as a synonym for 'bfn.org/' - i.e:http://bfn.org/~aa089/are all valid URLs when used with the browser's 'g'oto command. Note: this applies ONLY to the 'g'oto command and not to your personal web pages. (6/30) Added the following jump words (shortcuts): diskspace, modems, weather, and who. (6/26) Fixed a problem with local execution links not working from bookmark pages. (6/25) A new version of the web browser (lynx ver. 2-5) is now in use. Please read the highlights page to review the new features and changes. (6/23) Search feature added. (6/14) New US Mail address:
Buffalo Free-Net Statistics for May posted. (6/3)
May 1996Convert your old menu based email aliases to PINE Addressbook entries in the Post Office. See the posting in the wny.freenet.buffalo.general newsgroup for more information. (5/6)Statistics for April posted. (5/2) News is not being updated. (4/23) Fixed - a process was not being re-started on the machine reboot. (5/1)
April 1996New BFN User Guides available courtesy of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Busines Reference folks. (4/30)Mail is not being delivered. (4/27) Fixed (4/29) The browser's 'G'oto command has been modified to allow you to make http connections by entering the site name without the http:// portion of the URL. See the posting in wny.freenet.buffalo.general newsgroup for more information. (4/16) The FAQs have been updated to reflect the changes in the new user interface. (4/16) An introduction to the use of the Buffalo Free-Net browser has been added to the help files. (4/16) Added new SIGs: Black Issues, Buffalo United Artists, Fort Niagara State Parks, Upstate NY & Ontario Medical Library Association, amd WNY Christian and Missionary Alliance. (4/12) News was not being updated. (4/5) Fixed. (4/8) PINE has been reconfigured to keep unread *and* read messages in your INBOX folder. If you want to save them in a different folder then use the 's' command after reading a particular message. See the posting in wny.freenet.buffalo.general newsgroup for more information. (4/5) Statistics for March posted. (4/1)
March, 1996Added Search The Web page to the On Line Plaza. (3/31)A PINE FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page is now available. You are encouraged to review it before posting your Pine related questions to the wny.freenet.questions newsgroup or emailing the administrators. (3/30) Mail is once again working. See the posting in wny.freenet.buffalo.general newsgroup for more information. (3/25) We have removed 1,615 accounts that had not been logged in to during the last 6 months. (3/22) New phone number on April 10, 1996 (716) 515-2100. The 515 exchange is a new local exchange for the Buffalo area. (3/11) The Buffalo Free-Net adopts a new look! (3/11) January, 1996All non-NY State accounts were removed. (1/3)Warning: include(../includes/linkbar.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/apache2-default/changes/1996.php on line 183 Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '../includes/linkbar.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/apache2-default/changes/1996.php on line 183 |
