Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hey Roy!

 MK> Apr 10 04:06 04, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> binkd is a daemon and can work with all sorts of connections, 
 MK>> including POTs,

 RJT> Oh.  That's news to me!

 MK> But it doesn't answer the phone.

Oh.  Well,  I guess that's not gonna do me a whole lot of good...

 MK> It is a networking type daemon and only listens in on a specific 
 MK> port, like httpd, ftpd, etc. Binkleyterm and mgetty are more along 
 MK> the line of the DOS type stuff.  With binkd you can poll a node 
 MK> over your ppp connection on the internet.  No dialing involved. 

 RJT> There was an article in fidonews a while back about how bbs'ing 
 RJT> could be revived somewhat if sysops were to provide for a ppp 
 RJT> connection as well as the usual kind.  I find that to be an 
 RJT> interesting idea,  but have never pursued it.

 MK> I tried that about six years ago and wasn't successful at it but
 MK> not for technical reasons.  Even back then there weren't many
 MK> people around here with modems and the few were more intrested in
 MK> ICQ then BBSing.  Oh well.  The neighbour's and I little wireless
 MK> experiment has raised some eyebrows though.  He wants a point setup
 MK> though.

I wish I could find some people that would take the trouble to set up a point!

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