Net::ISCABBS 
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This is a Perl version of the developer's interaface to ISCABBS at the
University of Iowa.  See the POD/manpages for more information.

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ABOUT ISCABBS

Established in 1989, ISCABBS has provided a virtual community for students 
of the University of Iowa and the Internet in general. Today ISCABBS is the 
world's largest free bulletin board system on the Internet, with over 5,000 
active members. We have a validation structure to help prevent harassment 
while allowing for anonymity, a team of System Operators who help to maintain 
a near round the clock watch on activities, and nearly 200 discussion forums 
which cover a wide variety of topics, from the intensely technical to the 
sublimely silly.

The base code for ISCABBS is D.O.C. (Daves' Own Citadel), a telnet-based BBS 
code derived originally from Citadel. The D.O.C. code was written primarily 
by Dr.  David Lacey, then a student at the University of Iowa. In 2001 the 
code for D.O.C. was released under the GNU General Public License. Several 
variants have already been developed from this base code.

ISCABBS offers Intra-BBS electronic mail and real-time instant messages 
between users and a variety of forums covering many areas of academic and 
social discussion,  as well as general discussion forums.

ISCABBS is owned and maintained by the Iowa Student Computer Association at 
the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. This student group meets monthly 
during the school year and supports several projects.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  IO::Socket::INET

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2004 H. Wade Minter <minter@lunenburg.org>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself. 

