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Bahá'í Communications
International
5712 Deerfoot Trail
Fort Worth, TX 76131
USA
Copyright © 1996-2005 by BCI. BCI is sponsored by the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Fort Worth, Texas.
Services offered by BCI
Web Server SpaceBCI will host the HTML and graphics files which make up your website (up to 20 megabytes) on our web server. If you use BCI's domain name, your web address will look like
www.bci.org/yourname
BCI can also host your site if you register your own domain name. We provide the required DNS servers and we can help you through the registration process. If you obtain your own domain name, your web address will look like:
www.yourname.org
While our server uses the Linux operating system, you can create your website off-line using your own Windows or Mac computer. A wide variety of web development tools are available for each platform, but some developers prefer to simply use a a text editor (to do this, you must know HTML).
You can upload new or revised files to your account whenever you wish to keep your website current. To do this, you use an FTP client program.
Email
Each member is provided with a true POP3 electronic mailbox ("yourname@bci.org")
which can set up
in a variety of ways. You can set up your existing email software to
retrieve
messages from the BCI server (in addition to your other mail accounts),
or you
can have all mail coming to your BCI mailbox automatically forwarded
elsewhere.
BCI can also set up email aliases of the form "yourname@bci.org". Any mail sent by others to this address is automatically forwarded to you at either your BCI or personal address.
Additional mailboxes and aliases can be set up as necessary.