On 08 Jan 2021, August Abolins said the following...
 AA>  AA>> Maybe non-bbs/independent users are not part of the scinet plan.  I 
 AA>  AA>> see.
 AA> 
 AA>  ACN> Why do you think this?
 AA>  ACN> I guess you can ask if you can connect to diskshop or other BBSes
 AA> as a ACN> point...
 AA> 
 AA> I had a situation in Micronet where I asked if I could come on  
 AA> board as a point, but no one was operating one. The guidelines  
 AA> seemed to be geared to assume sysop members only.
 AA> 
 AA> I thought that maybe SciNet was sysop-only too.
 AA> 
 AA> Anyway.. I am poised to get a point assignment. It's all good.

Each network has it's own thing.  I had a lot of trouble finding a system in
Z1 to accept points for a while. 

All you can do is keep looking around.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)