Whew!

Spent a fair amount of time configuring machines and installing
software but I now have the ViaSoft Support BBS running full time on one
POTS line and from time to time I'll bring up the second POTS line
which both have USR Courier 56k V.Everything modems. For the most part,
I'll be using the second line for testing.

The board is running on two Dell XPS 500/550 (P3) boxes using 120gb
SSD's (DOS 6.22 only allows me to get to 8gb).  The server is
a Dell Dimension 4100 with 512mb memory and runs Novell v3.11 (100 user)
with a pair of 120gb SSD's using 10BaseT (10mb) NICs.  All of this is
sitting on APC UPS's just in case.

Of course, ViaMAIL! sits in front of both lines and accepts both human
and mail calls (1:104/57). I've been adding DOS specific files to the
BBS and I'm sitting at over 11,000 files with plenty more to add.  The
Registered Product doors won't be available until everything else is
completely working and after I've had a chance to refactor them.

As I'm sure you can tell, I'm trying to remain old school here by being
a purely DOS based BBS with no Telnet capabilities.  There's just
something missing with a TelNet connection -- oh yeah, modem tones!
Besides, I'm not real keen on subjecting my web servers/firewalls to
the constant pounding of TelNet script kiddies.

I'm bringing the board back up in support of all the original ViaSoft
products as well as the ones I'm working on to re-release after all
the compilation and doc updates are complete.  So look to see a flood of
some 20+ archives in the not-to-distant future.  The board will also
serve as a test bed for these programs to ensure they'll work as
expected.

If you have time (and a modem - MagicJack works but not much faster
than 16.8/21.6), give the board a call at 303-953-0568 and say hello.

Regards,

Joe Martin

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