Parti on Twics

Join the Parti Community on Twics

Many of your fellow Twicsters meet in a virtual hangout called “Parti”. Parti is mouse-free and lightning-fast, so more yen stays in your pocket instead of “GUI-ing” into NTT’s. You can download all your Parti notes in one batch and read them off-line. There are many “topics” in Parti. Here we help each other find answers to questions about computing, living in Japan, good places to eat, and other pressing matters. (Sometimes we even get together for real parties.)

But first, you may be wondering “how do I get there?”

If you are connected to Twics for Web surfing, then use your Telnet client to connect to beehive.twics.com (otherwise known as 192.135.222.9). If you have ordinary dialup comms software like Crosstalk or Zterm or Microphone, then just set it to dial 03 5361 7270.

Either way, you log on with your Twics username and password (all lowercase), then choose PARTI from the menu.

Splash. You’re in! Welcome. Read the notes in your Inbox. Some instructions and a list of topics will be waiting there for you. Just keep pressing your Return or Enter key to continue. Then please join and read some notes in other topics. To join the “help” topic for example, you just type

  join "help"

To read the last 10 notes, you type

  read "help" -10

And so on.But the great thing about Parti is that once you’ve joined a few topics, everything else is automatic. The next time you visit, any new notes will be waiting in your inbox. (We’ll also reveal the yen-saving secrets of batch downloading/uploading notes instead of staying online as you read/write each one.)

But don’t worry about the details now. Just drop in and see what’s happening. You’ll soon discover why Parti is a big reason many of us choose Twics as our internet provider.

Oh yes, to quit, just type quit or q.

See you in Parti,

The Parti Community

More Information

•  Pages 1-4 through 2-8 of “The Twics User’s Guide” give more details about connecting to Twics.
•  For more help about using Parti, see the Parti Help Page
•  The Parti FAQ answers many frequently asked questions.
•  There’s lot’s of useful information and guides to Parti in the Parti Members Pages
•  See what’s happening in Parti these days with Parti News