On 2018-02-22, Seymore4Head  wrote:

> How hard would it be for BBS software to run on telnet?
>
> I remember years ago that I had some program that would do telnet and
> there were BBSs you could connect to.

That would be a worthwhile project.  You might want to use SSH, though.

Many of the functions of BBSes have been taken over by Facebook.
This is unfortunate, since Facebook is a monopoly, while the BBSes
of yore were independent.

> Could BBS software be modified to be accessed from the web using
> a browser link?

Some web sites let you leave comments, which provides a lot of BBS
functionality.  Others, however, insist that you post via Facebook.
Since I refuse to get a Facebook account, this deprives them of my
pearls of wisdom.  :-)

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