Let's setup a TELNETTABLE BBS!

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Awright! Let's do this thing!

WHAT WE WANT:

- A bulletin board experience with the look and feel of what people experienced in the 1980s.

- A telnettable interface so we can all logon from anywhere.

- A message base!

- A hosted solution so someone else can deal with the uptime concerns!

- The ability to have many people connected at once!

Now, then! How do we do this? Does anyone know the first thing about setting this shit up? I need references and documents, people.

[Vitriola]

One of the reasons I was glad we moved was because backwards Longmont Library only had telnettable interface. I like my web-based overdue notices!

[Bugs]

I think this is a great idea. But, I think there would be a certain charm in only allowing one user to connect at a time.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

And realistically, there will only be like 5 of us telnetting there anyway.

[pinback]

JUST FIX THE SITE.

[Bugs]

Well, yeah, but I remember all those busy signals while waiting anxiously to read Spidey's latest musings on exactly how a Jesuit education was not turning him into a homosexual.

Again, a certain charm - that's all.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

JUST FIX THE SITE.

The site is fixed! No more double posting!

Also, if anyone is attempting to reach me at my joltcountry.com address, use my zombieworld.com one instead, as I have the joltcountry.com one on a really strict spamkilling thing, so as not to use the website's resources.

And of course, if one has nothing to do with the other, disregard me as an idiot.

[bruce]

One of the reasons I was glad we moved was because backwards Longmont Library only had telnettable interface. I like my web-based overdue notices!

If I called in sick for like a week I could probably get an Apple II BBS online with telnet to the "modem" on the serial port. Anyone have a disk image of ProTerm?

Bruce

[Worm]

- L.O.R.D

EDIT: and appropriate booster packs.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Yeah, we would definitely need L.O.R.D., Legend of the Red Dragon. And then, just because it is expected .... TRADE WARS!

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Whoa guys! I just found this!

http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

So people have created guides and so forth on this! So .... the next step would seem to be in my court!

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Whoa! Whoooooaaaaa-ooooha! I found out that WWIV can listen to the telnet port and spawn nodes!

I used to hate WWIV! Because they never said who you were replying to. And then BBS forums did the same fucking thing, relying on quotes! So WWIV is good with me!

This project just took another huge fuckin' step forward!

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Also, so, I went onto a telnetable BBS recently that was run off of an Atari computer. It was amazing to me how creepy the standard questions were in this, the Aughts.

Name? Address? Phone number?? We used to give those to SysOps all the time. The BBS software for that Atari BBS still asked for it. I of course put in Ben's home address, but still, it was amazing how dated the thing felt.

But yes! Ever onwards!

[pinback]

Maybe I will make a friend and he will talk to me.

[Tdarcos]

Awright! Let's do this thing!

WHAT WE WANT:

- A bulletin board experience with the look and feel of what people experienced in the 1980s.

- A telnettable interface so we can all logon from anywhere.

- A message base!

- A hosted solution so someone else can deal with the uptime concerns!

- The ability to have many people connected at once!

Now, then! How do we do this? Does anyone know the first thing about setting this shit up? I need references and documents, people.

I know of at least one WWIV bbs that you can telnet into. Works exactly the same, including the single key response mode. Can't remember the name at the moment. Try Googling and I'm sure you'll find them.

[loafergirl]

Bring on the L.O.R.D.! Can we get Barney Splat somewhere in there too? Didn't JQW have a generic version of LORD, something like Legend of the Green Dragon?

-LG