-=> PETER COGGON wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-

 PC>   Hello Tony ... You have me shaking my head in total agreement over
 PC> what you have written.    For the above, before the Wildcat ver4.20
 PC> BBS program I had was closed the spring of 2005, I asked a few to
 PC> sign on, when I saw them in the stores.

 PC> The answer was, that the dial up Internet modems could not dial a
 PC> number which I found a lame excuse...so I left it at that and closed
 PC> off, when the only 2 users had not used it for 6 months.

Hmm, it's more likely they didn't know how to use Hyperterm or any of the third
party terminal programs. :-/  Most people simply don't know and aren't curious
enough to find out...

 PC> No real regrets, I have no plans to have a re-start only an interest
 PC> in the Internet programs or the easiest BBS to launch via the Internet
 PC> .   Wildcat wanted after I got ver4.20 a
 PC> price that I was not ready to pay.   I also have a FBB BBS on packet
 PC> ver 515c   with the transmitter at 50watts faced south towards the
 PC> city for linking....whenever.

Well, for me I'm one of those practical people.  Internet BBSs represent a new
opportunity.  I'm not in a position to maintain dialup lines (especially at
today's line rental rates, which are 2-3 x what they were when we had the BBS
running), and I'm also able to physically locate it somewhere I can keep it up
24x7 on good bandwidth for minimal cost (some 10000 miles away in Atlanta).

It's going to take some time, especially since I'm working on a priority
upgrade to my Echolink setup - I am setting up a HF link, for demonstration
purposes with the bushfire crisis, with the option of enabling the transmitter,
if it's needed to assist.


73 de VK3JED
http://www.vkradio.com
Synchronet BBS coming soon!
... Got my tie caught in the fax... Suddenly I was in L.A.
--- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47
--- SBBSecho 2.11-Win32