William Baker
	Ford Aerospace & Communication Corporation
	1322 Space Park Drive
	MS: B2C
	Houston, Texas  77058

	NASA Life Sciences Project
	NASA/JSC, Building 37
	MS:  SD
	Houston, Texas 77058

=========================================================================

	GENERAL COMMENTS:

	The Bulletin Board set of programs was built upon the work
	done with the TELEREAD program.  Basically, this program
	allows the manager to read GTE/TELENET Bulletin Boards and
	to post new bulletin board items to any user who can 
	receive VAX mail (or A1 mail).  The general purpose for doing
	this was to reduce the traffic on a limited number of dial-out
	telephone lines attached to our computer.  Why dialout a dozen
	times for the same information, when once is enough.

	If you have installed the TELEREAD program properly, then this
	set of routines will have no problem in running.

	Once again this program was designed around the NASA/JSC
	telephone system, and its PSCN/NPSS data switching system.
	You will probably have to modify the source code to allow
	it to run on systems with general GTE/TELENET type access.
	Specifically you will have to modify the MODEM.FOR to allow
	the program to dial-out, and you will have to modify the
	DOCOMM.FOR routine to eliminate the login to the PSCN/NPSS
	system that I've embedded into the program.

	This program has been running without incident for about
	6 months now.  In that time I modified it only one time to
	add some code that was needed on the TELEREAD program.
	Figured if TELEREAD needed it, then the Bulletin Board
	program might need it too, no other reason.  The new code
	just added a better set of logic to allow for a clean exit
	from a possible disconnected data line.

	I'm a little embarassed that a lot of my code is not what
	most programmers would call properly commented.  These
	programs, and most that I do write, are generally on a fast
	task basis.  In other words, don't document it, just do it.
	I've tried to clean up the code as much as possible over time,
	and to add commenting when I could.  Should you have a problem
	with the code, just give me a call, I'll be happy to help
	where I can.