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| From | Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: SDF Public Access Unix System |
| References | <10n5v7t$36bss$1@dont-email.me> <69972954.14766.news.afc@realitycheckbbs.org> <cnrsem-md.ln1@intheattic.eternal-september.org> |
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| Organization | Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com |
| Date | 2026-06-01 14:06 -0700 |
Juancho <eternal@notreally.com> writes: > 2026-02-19, Kurt Weiske <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-d7b-this> wrote: >> -=> Beej Jorgensen wrote to alt.folklore.computers <=- >> >> > * realitycheckBBS - Aptos, CA - telnet://realitycheckbbs.org >> >> BJ> Excellent... One of my many side projects to never get to is to write a >> BJ> new BBS from scratch in Rust. :) >> >> Please do! There are others writing BBSes from scratch and resurrecting >> old BBS packages. It's exciting seeing some activity in the scene. > > BBS are quite isolated in terms of "reaching out to the world", I don't see > their appeal compared to hosting/using a pubnix/tilde server loaded to the > brim with Internet-native, text-based tools. That's not true, whatsoever. Under normal circumstances, I would suggest visiting a few bbs systems out there. But, not in this case. > I see BBS as islands designed to serve small geographical areas in the times of > metered dial-up connectivity. For that scenario, they totally made sense. In the 1980s and early 90s, this was true. Today, some boards are silo'd by design, and in many cases it's for nostalgia. Sometimes, it's a project board owned by sysops who have multiple live BBS systems. But there are many bbses that aren't silo'd whatsoever. Far from it. Many boards, like mine, have portals to wikipedia and weather services, lynx interface, some sports API access. We even aggregate news feeds with full story downloads. No ads, clickbait, side-loaded iframes, trackers, cookies, cookie alerts. Quite a number of boards out there serve as information gateways for all to use. > But there are better options (namely, pubnix and tildes) for partaking in the > smolnet in a world of always-on, universal Internet access. That's merely your opinion. What seems better to one may not be for others. > Why use BBS-siloed message boards, when you can have full USENET access? We've had usenet for many years as well. Have you been on a bbs in the last forty years? It doesn't seem like it. We don't require modems anymore. Some boards still offer dialup access on top of ssh/telnet. It is more for nostalgic reasons though. > Why use FIDO email and convoluted inter-zones gateways, when you can have full > Internet email? For a number of years, my primary email was on a bbs. I even had thunderbird configured to pull from it if I wasn't going to be on the bbs that day. IMAP for the win. Synchronet has supported this feature as far back as I remember and the developer of the system has been quite active on adding features for years. Hell, the primary scripting language for door creation is javascript. Can't be more web-based/modern than that. I don't actually offer echomail on my bbs. But this may change after I switch bbs services. Time will tell. > Why use BBS chat rooms, when you have IRC at a global scale? IRC has been long supported as well as MRC. Ddial is also available via rlogin or via MRC uplink or via IRC. I've use my bbs exlusively to chat on IRC as long as it has been online. > Why bother publishing anything in a BBS-constrained presence, when you > can publish a Gopher site and instantly be world-reachable? It's not hard to connect via telnet/ssh to read anything published. There are a number of gopher browsers a sysop can choose from, or use lynx. Many sysops publish their works not only on the boards they operate, but also on phlogs. They operate gopher sites as a companion to their boards. It's a hobby. We also have a number of gopher doors that a sysop can choose from to give users gopher access. This is another long supported feature. BBS systems are about as silo'd as a website is silo'd. > Now that we have always-on Internet and cheap UNIX-derived/-inspired operating > systems (instead of MS-DOS machines), there are better options than BBS. None of your statements are true. Some guys out there may have believed your malicious post and some of them may have turned away from exploring the mature BBS landscape. I'm just glad that the usenet population is really small and niche. The damage you've done may be minimal. -- Daniel sysop | air & wave bbs finger | info@bbs.airandwave.net
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Re: SDF Public Access Unix System Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-02-15 11:12 -0800
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Re: SDF Public Access Unix System Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-02-18 09:45 -0800
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Re: SDF Public Access Unix System gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-04 16:09 +0000
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Re: SDF Public Access Unix System Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> - 2026-06-01 20:11 +0100
Re: SDF Public Access Unix System Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-04 11:52 +0100
Re: SDF Public Access Unix System Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-06-01 14:06 -0700
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Re: SDF Public Access Unix System Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-02 22:00 +0000
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