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Hello Maurice!

Aug 28 18:58 07, Maurice Kinal wrote to Gert Koefoed Andersen:
28 Aug 07 18:58, Maurice Kinal wrote to Gert Koefoed Andersen:

 GKA>> Yes, could be it tis way.

 MK>Seems to be the case.  Speaking for the immediate area where a 
 MK>traditional Fido BBS could potentially serve, there is nobody that 
 MK>could be served using traditional methods and especially formats, 
 MK>either jam or squish.  Also can be extended to include binkp which 
 MK>supposedly was to resolve the tcpip connection issues.  Did it?  I 
 MK>think not.

The old way by POTS modem is not used any more and it it long time since I
self had a working BBS by POTS modem.
THe last time I have it working was when I had a win98 running and then a
w2000 system, and it had it trouble by poll ad answer on polls. Now is it
linux bbs and connection by Internet, tcp telnet and nntp, and is mbsebbs
thee do it on 2 computer.
I have about 10 bbs user now but for about 10 years ago was it 50 users,
but lot of visitors on my web.

 GKA>> The most of my links  is using Internet binkp connections for both 
 GKA>> linux and windows.

 MK>But that is only nodes and from my understanding it is on the decline 
 MK>and was since before binkp connections.

before binkp connection was it too 4 nets I was in and downlinks was about 10.

 GKA>> It I just could get hand of a newsgroup provider list to see what 
 GKA>> there is of them, there was for some year ago a list of news hosts 
 GKA>> and it could be find by Internet.

 MK>I wish you luck with that but I think they may suffer the same fate as 
 MK>Fido.

More and more have a news server setup and running.

  Take care,
     Gert

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