-=> Quoting PETER COGGON to NANCY BACKUS on 10 Jan 10  11:51:00 <=-

 NB>> I also always liked dialup... but the major difference for me between
 NB>> telnet and dialup is that I don't hear the ring or the modem baudrate
 NB>> handshake any more... once I'm on, it's just like when I used to dial
 NB>> up to the BBS.  Never did packet radio... but I think I'd agree with
 NB>> you there, if I did...  :)
 PC> The nice thing about the old dialups were the local meetings with
 PC> users and we had a conference started by a user that went ,hand in hand
 PC> with the meetings of users at the local chew n choke.

We used to have a city-wide Users group that got together every-so-often
to learn from each other, and incidentally to put faces to names... :)

 PC> With Packet radio, the problem there was and is distances, and just
 PC> whom one might be keyboarding with.   Meetings were not going to
 PC> happen and when Internet came and these Internet BBSes, it seems a real
 PC> chore of organization just to have a yearly party.

Of course, there still are pockets of Fido that have the same old
spirit, like the Cooking Echo that has a yearly (or so) Picnic that
meets somewhere each year, and those who can, converge on the spot for a
few days...  :)  Organized right in the echo, mostly... ;)

 PC>> ... BBS: a method to triple your phone bill.
 NB>> Only if you are a sysop... or are calling longdistance...  

 PC> It used to mean a seperate line for the BBS, at so much, so just
 PC> an added cost of a line per month,,,I was not a Networker, so if the
 PC> Next BBS to link to went...then so did the Network.
 PC> I know sysops that went overboard with LD and the charges do mount.

I was peripherally aware of that sort of thing, back in the day... one
benefit of the Net has been that LD charges are mostly a thing of the
past... if one has the DSL or internet access anyway, one can move mail
that way instead of POTS...

 PC> I think now, that DSL and line brings  Dailup and Telnet to the same
 PC> line so I might be interested.    My problem is well a senior ...
 PC> and not really crazy about sitting about trying to figure out how
 PC> it works, I just wanted to supply it as a community service, as
 PC> I have the radio digipeater now.
 PC> Better get going...sooner or later I think someone is to message me
 PC> in some conference about setting up my current Wildcat v4.20 system
 PC> into a Telnet and dialup system ..etc....so take care...see you
 PC> later and keep Blue Waving ....

True... and except for the obvious connection with (and interconnection
to) BW as the impeller for keeping on messaging, this discussion
probably would be better in one of the echoes like BBS_PROMOTION or
BBS_SURVIVAL...  :)

 PC> ... BlueWave Offline...was the most important program to use on my BBS. 

That was pretty much what my sysop taught me, way back when... :)

ttyl     neb

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