Re: BBS nostalgia
  By: Sean Dennis to Eric Oulashin on Sun Jan 09 2011 18:29:17

 > make your life miserable. :)  It's also, like you said, the feel that the 
 > Internet - specifically the web - feel rather cold and anonymous.  I miss th
 > monthly get-togethers I'd attend with a local BBS and this was as late as 20

I never did go to any BBS get-togethers, but I did like the fact that BBSs had
mainly a local userbase.

 > I offer both my dialup and telnet users the ability to telnet out, connect t
 > an IRC server and chat, FTP out (including grabbing files from a FTP server 
 > then downloading them directly from the door) and even text-based WWW browsi
 > via telneting to a system in the UK that offers Lynx and Links for that.  Ne

That's cool..  That's something I don't offer on my BBS, besides some other
BBSs I allow telnetting out to.

When I started using Synchronet for my BBS, it had some inter-BBS chat features
that I thought were really cool.  That's something you didn't see back when
BBSs were more popular.

 > I'm running a FTP server now but it is mainly for moving mail in my own mail
 > network and not really for "file sharing".  I admit I'm a
real stick-in-the-

I think FTP helps a bit with FidoNet-style networks, since it allows sysops to
exchange data without having to worry about long-distance phone calls (which
some sysops had to deal with with POTS).

 > anonymous website; I ask for personal information as I have the right to kno
 > who's visiting my home.  If people don't like it, they can move on.

That's true.  I always enjoyed getting to know my users.

Eric
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