Nightfox wrote to Drakon <=-
Re: whoa... alive and kicking
By: Drakon to All on Thu Jun 14 2018 01:31 pm
After taking my BBS down in 2000, I discovered (to my surprise) that
BBSes were still around via telnet in 2007 and decided to start running one again.
Welcome. :)
Nightfox
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þ Synchronet þ Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com
The bbs were a strong engine to exchange messages and stay in touch with people, before the internet era. Some bbs also permit to have one of the first email service during the first phase of the internet era.
Even before the internet was popular, BBSes allowed local email and email via FIDONet. If you knew someone's FIDONet email address (or knew which BBSes they used often), you could send them email to that BBS via FIDONet.
Drakon wrote to Nightfox <=-
I can't remember when my bbs history has finished, but i think in the second half of the 90's.
The bbs were a strong engine to exchange messages and stay in touch
with people, before the internet era. Some bbs also permit to have one
of the first email service during the first phase of the internet era.
It was fantastic discover that there are still some bbs going and some people still usign it.
You did a great job starting the bbs again, it is also in my mind but i think there are already too many bbs for the few users around ;-)
In any case, thanks for thew reply and for your job on the bbs.
I will go to give a look to your bbs.
On 06-20-18 12:33, Nightfox wrote to Drakon <=-
Even before the internet was popular, BBSes allowed local email and
email via FIDONet. If you knew someone's FIDONet email address (or
knew which BBSes they used often), you could send them email to that
BBS via FIDONet.
On 06-20-18 14:36, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox <=-
Don't forget that a lot of people got their first internet email
address through a fido gateway.
Yes, I used to participate in international echoes via Fidonet and othernets, and for one on one messaging, netmail worked as well as email does todat, just a LOT slower back then! :) Used to take a week or so to get international replies back, because mail only moved overnight (unless crashed through). :)
On 06-21-18 08:43, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I remember that. I never used Fidonet netmail much myself, but when I
ran my original BBS in the 90s, I finally got it set up on FidoNet in
1998 (4 years after I started running my BBS). I remember seeing that
it could take some time to get replies. I was excited that I finally
got my BBS on FidoNet (the process always seemed a bit complicated to
me). I think I was a little late at that time though, and I took my
BBS down just 2 years later when it wasn't getting many callers
anymore, and I didn't think anyone would want to use a BBS anymore due
to the internet.
I got on Fidonet pretty much as soon as I had the BBS up and running. Fidonet was one of my high priority things. Yes, it was a complex process back in the day, as there were several pieces of software that had to talk - in my case, they were:
RA (BBS)
Fastecho were the ones I used the most)
BinkleyTerm (mailer)
NetMgr - nice little utility for tweaking netmail headers on the way in YABOM - Yet Another Binkley Outbound Manager - used for final preparation Later, there was a TIC processor as well.
And to think today it's basically Synchronet and binkd on one system, while on the other, Mystic does it all sungle handed. :)
I used a bit of netmail, it was a good place to go to have more in depth one on one chats. And later, it was also useful for Internet email.
I also remember some FidoNet BBS sysops being a bit hot-headed when it cam simple things like BBS availability. I remember one FidoNet feed I had fo short time who was frustrated at me because of something like my BBS wasn' always available when his BBS called mine to transfer packets. I didn't r see what the big deal was.. Sometimes a user was using my BBS or perhaps using the machine for something. I originally had a different FidoNet fee
On 06-21-18 16:45, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I also ran RemoteAccess back in the day. I used FrontDoor for my
FidoNet mailer front-end, and I don't remember offhand the name of the program I was using for my FidoNet tosser, but I believe it was a shareware program that I registered.
I also remember some FidoNet BBS sysops being a bit hot-headed when it came to simple things like BBS availability. I remember one FidoNet
feed I had for a short time who was frustrated at me because of
something like my BBS wasn't always available when his BBS called mine
to transfer packets. I didn't really see what the big deal was..
And to think today it's basically Synchronet and binkd on one system, while on the other, Mystic does it all sungle handed. :)
Yeah, today it's fairly easy. :)
On 06-21-18 21:29, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Vk3jed <=-
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Re: Re: whoa... alive and kicking
By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Fri Jun 22 2018 06:47 am
I used a bit of netmail, it was a good place to go to have more in depth one on one chats. And later, it was also useful for Internet email.
I remember how pissed the gateway operators got when users discovered mailing lists!
Static wrote to Nightfox <=-
whatever you wanted with regard to availability. Still, most hosts were pretty reasonable if you at least polled promptly after a missed
transfer to pick up your mail and free up their disk space.
| Sysop: | MCMLXXIX |
|---|---|
| Location: | Prospect, CT |
| Users: | 325 |
| Nodes: | 10 (0 / 10) |
| Uptime: | 37:41:01 |
| Calls: | 508 |
| Messages: | 220021 |