BASIS maintains a number of online discussion forums for our Customers. We have mailing lists and a number of different newsgroups. Our Customers hold a wealth of knowledge and are happy to share it with you. Many of them have been developing in BBx for years; some have been with us from the beginning in 1985. If you're new to BASIS, we urge you to join one or several of these forums and take advantage of the expertise our Customers have to offer.

The Rules

These forums are intended as vehicles for open communication and knowledge sharing among our Customers. As such, most of them are not formally monitored by BASIS personnel. The descriptions that follow this section indicate whether BASIS monitors a particular forum. Developers should not consider the BASIS monitored forums to be means of requesting BASIS Technical Support.

If you need a question answered directly by BASIS Technical Support, you should contact our Technical Support staff.

We expect all participation in these forums to be civil. We will not tolerate foul language or threats to other people, and you could be permanently barred from participating if you violate this. Because of the business use of these forums we ask that you please stick to the topic and refrain from sending jokes and other off-topic messages.

You can subscribe or unsubscribe from one of our mailing lists at by visiting our Subscription Management page.

Our mailing lists are:

• announcements: Official announcements from BASIS (product releases, security updates, new services, training and appearances, etc.) This list is mirrored on the newsgroups.

• bbj-developer: Discussion of BBj development. Subscription approval required. This list is monitored by BASIS engineers and is mirrored on the newsgroups.

• bbx-list: Discussion of BASIS products past, present and future. This list is monitored by BASIS and is mirror on the newsgroups.

• barista-list: Discussion of Barista development. Subscription approval required. This list is monitored by BASIS engineers.

• basis.bbj-developer: A discussion forum for BBj developers and BASIS engineers. It also serves as a means by which developers can report problems with the nightly builds of BBj. This group is monitored by BASIS.

• basis.bbx-list: A discussion forum for BBx developers. This group is monitored by BASIS.

• barista-list: Discussion of Barista development. Subscription approval required. This list is monitored by BASIS engineers.

Support newsgroups for BASIS products. The basis.support groups are monitored by our technical support staff. If you need a question answered directly by BASIS Technical Support, you should contact our Technical Support staff.

• basis.support.bbj
• basis.support.pro5
• basis.support.visualpro5
• basis.support.dataserver
• basis.support.odbc-sql
• basis.support.taos

Unmonitored Groups

• basis.announce: Official announcements about BASIS products and activities. This is a read-only newsgroup. It contains all of the BASIS Marketing and Technical Communiques.

• basis.general: General discussion of topics of interest to BASIS customers. This group is not monitored. If you have a question that you feel requires a response from BASIS, please post it to the appropriate basis.support newsgroup or send e-mail to info@basis.com.

• basis.wanted-forsale: The place to post to sell old hardware, search for BBx programmers, etc. Please make sure your posting is specifically related to BASIS or Business BASIC. This group is not monitored.

• basis.test: Please use this newsgroup when testing to see if your connection to our server is working.