Site News

A2Central.com’s new online service?beginning with the telnet-based Real Time Conference and Bulletin Board areas?will enter a free public beta test beginning on December 8, 2000. Paid-only access will begin on January 1.

A2Central.com has selected its lineup of Real-Time Conference hosts. They will begin hosting scheduled conferences that will take place from 10:00 to midnight EST. We’ll post the actual schedule soon, but the hosts will be Michael Kent, Ray Merlin, Mark Percival, Loren Damewood, Tony Diaz, Carl Knoblock, and Kirk Mitchell.

In addition to the previously-announced staffing changes, we have now selected Dain Neater to manage the A2Central.com Bulletin Board (message forum), and Cindy Adams?former Big Cheese of KFest?will handle our promotional activities.

We’ve begun selecting staff for our upcoming online service. Ryan Suenaga will serve as the Chief Sysop of the A2Central.com online service, with Eric Shepherd?owner of A2Central.com?overseeing the web site and the business itself. Kirk Mitchell has accepted the position of Real Time Conference Manager. Other positions are in the process of being filled, and we’ll continue to keep you up-to-date as we fill them.

A2Central.com will be moving to a new Internet Service Provider today to obtain higher bandwidth and more IP addresses for our upcoming additional services. You may experience outages on and off over the course of the day. They should last no longer than two or three hours, unless something unexpected happens.

Pick up the A2Central.com mug, T-shirt, or mousepad you’ve always wanted at our online merchandise store!

Due to a configuration issue with our new ISP, our servers won’t be moving to their new IP addresses today after all.

Curious what’s going on with our plans for the future? Have a look at our first A2Central.com status report, written by A2Central.com editor Eric Shepherd.