Bruce Bergman

Thanks to Bruce Bergman of Fatcity Network Services for setting up a mailing list for the ChipDir.

Fat City would have merely blended into the morass of systems had it not been for the fact that its owner, Bruce Bergman, had several years of experience with Unix systems and had been using Usenet (the predecessor to the network that would later be called the "Internet") to send and receive E-mail and to read "newsgroups", or shared discussion boards, for many years.
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Bruce decided to make Fat City stand apart by offering Usenet newsgroups to his BBS members.
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In 1993, Bruce registered the domain name "fatcity.com" and did away with bang notation E-mail addresses.

Shortly before then, Bruce started carrying his own electronic mailing lists for friends and the local community.
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Bruce shifted off of his long-standing BBS software (Waffle, then later Synchronet) and moved to WINS (Wildcat Internet Networking System) which allowed Fat City to offer a hybrid BBS/web server type of service.This ensured that Fat City's members could retain their original E-mail address and newsgroup and mailing list access, but also play in the new world of websites.

The number of mailing lists hosted at Fat City grew, and so did it's popularity as a place where high quality lists were hosted.Fat City picked up several big name customers such as the Oracle Development Tools Users Group (ODTUG), The Chip Directory (Chipdir) and the Triplets Parents group (parents of triplets, quads and more).Bruce decided that the primary focus of Fat City should be on Internet mailing lists, and closed his BBS to the public around 1997 in order to make that his priority.

Fat City would have merely blended into the morass of systems had it not been for the fact that its owner, Bruce Bergman, had several years of experience with Unix systems and had been using Usenet (the predecessor to the network that would later be called the "Internet") to send and receive E-mail and to read "newsgroups", or shared discussion boards, for many years.
...
Bruce decided to make Fat City stand apart by offering Usenet newsgroups to his BBS members.
...
In 1993, Bruce registered the domain name "fatcity.com" and did away with bang notation E-mail addresses.

Shortly before then, Bruce started carrying his own electronic mailing lists for friends and the local community.
...
Bruce shifted off of his long-standing BBS software (Waffle, then later Synchronet) and moved to WINS (Wildcat Internet Networking System) which allowed Fat City to offer a hybrid BBS/web server type of service.This ensured that Fat City's members could retain their original E-mail address and newsgroup and mailing list access, but also play in the new world of websites.

The number of mailing lists hosted at Fat City grew, and so did it's popularity as a place where high quality lists were hosted.Fat City picked up several big name customers such as the Oracle Development Tools Users Group (ODTUG), The Chip Directory (Chipdir) and the Triplets Parents group (parents of triplets, quads and more).Bruce decided that the primary focus of Fat City should be on Internet mailing lists, and closed his BBS to the public around 1997 in order to make that his priority.