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  • SIMNET Update - Get a dia

    From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Tim Smith on Tue Nov 22 18:46:00 2016
    would upvote if I could, I'm so happy to have joined this, gives my otherwise fairly dead POTS line a FEW more calls a week, I could care
    less if they are telagting to another system or not, because there are lines in finland and romania offering dialup to my system here in GA
    USA.

    Why wouldn't those users in finland or romania simply use telnet to access
    your BBS here? Honest question, I am trying to figure out if there is any benefit to it. Thanks!

    Mike


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  • From Sampsa@VERT/B4BBS to Dumas Walker on Wed Nov 23 16:39:00 2016
    Dumas Walker wrote to Tim Smith <=-

    would upvote if I could, I'm so happy to have joined this, gives my otherwise fairly dead POTS line a FEW more calls a week, I could care
    less if they are telagting to another system or not, because there are lines in finland and romania offering dialup to my system here in GA
    USA.

    Why wouldn't those users in finland or romania simply use telnet to
    access your BBS here? Honest question, I am trying to figure out if
    there is any benefit to it. Thanks!

    Well the reason there's a number in Finland is because I started the whole thing with a GSM modem and an incoming V.32 data number, in Finland (I have
    a server rack here but no landline [kept getting hit by lightning]).

    I figured I'd lead by example, so to speak - sorta hard to ask others to
    setup dial-up access points if you don't do one yourself.

    As for benefit? Is there any benefit to traditonal BBSes compared to the
    stuff you can do with web apps? Probably not, but if you happen to have
    a mostly unused landline lying around, why the hell not?

    We've got 5 access numbers now and close to 50 BBSes signed up, I haven't
    done any analysis of the logs to see how many callers we're getting but
    it's one of these "Because we can" projects, basically.

    Sampsa

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  • From Tim Smith@VERT/KK4QBN to Dumas Walker on Wed Nov 23 10:06:39 2016
    Re: SIMNET Update - Get a dia
    By: Dumas Walker to Tim Smith on Tue Nov 22 2016 06:46 pm

    Why wouldn't those users in finland or romania simply use telnet to access your BBS here? Honest question, I am trying to figure out if there is any benefit to it. Thanks!


    Nostalgia? Many different reasons?? some people still have nothing BUT dialup, some people have no internet access. So yeah, would be nice to have a dialup line close to your area that you could access many systems around the world on. --

    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Kai Preshaw on Thu Feb 2 17:48:00 2017
    wow they still do BBS dial-up numbers?!
    SIGN ME UP!!

    Yes, they sure do.


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