> I do thing that about 90% of them are no more though. I think this is a bett
 > list of "active" networks:
 >
 > http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org/getlinks.php?category=message
 >
 > but again, i've not really checked into it :)


     You do?  It's "BBS History" is simply the history of Renegade
BBS.  It doesn't list a lot of OtherNets.  Many I have, and it lists
some that are defunct or unreachable....  How do you contact DOREnet,
for example?  The site doesn't mention Waffle, USENET, UUCP-NET "bang
path" networks.  It claims that bulletin boards started as RBBS....
Maybe with a IBM PC they did, but bulletin boards were being exchanged
on the tail end of magtape space ever since "Fuzzy Pink" started
messaging back in the late 60's... and used names such as MESSAGE
and BBOARD.

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