On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Philip Rambaran wrote to All:

 PR> I've never used a BBS before! Can somebody teach me the basics?

there's not a lot to teach, really... you have menus that you make your
selection from using the keyboard... some systems are message oriented,
others are file oriented and some are game oriented... some systems have
all three... pretty much everything is done the old-fashioned way with the
keyboard unless the system has a HTML web interface...

probably the toughest aspect is transfering files when using telnet or
ssh... your terminal has to support the transfer protocols that the BBS has
available... the most common protocol will be zmodem because of its ease of
use... you select the file and zmodem transfers the name to the other end
when it sends the data... other protocols, xmodem for instance, require
that you type the name twice... once on one end to tell it what file you
are sending/receiving and once on the other end to send or receive it...

that's it for a quick response... what other questions do you have? maybe
some others will chime in with additional responses ;)

)\/(ark