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  • Re: BBS Software Timeout Values

    From Jas Hud@1:103/705 to Sean Dennis on Fri Apr 14 06:24:48 2023
    To: Sean Dennis
    Re: Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
    By: Sean Dennis to Jas Hud on Wed Apr 12 2023 06:26 pm

    Jas Hud wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    well when i was writing that i'm talking about the telnet age, not dialup age.

    I knew of several MBBS systems that supported both POTS and telnet in the 90s.


    yeah i did too. i was on metro gameport and the other bbses they owned.
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  • From Jas Hud@1:103/705 to Sean Dennis on Fri Apr 14 06:26:10 2023
    To: Sean Dennis
    Re: Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
    By: Sean Dennis to Jas Hud on Wed Apr 12 2023 06:28 pm

    Jas Hud wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    he used a bad example. what it was, was the boards all had their data files linked. so same doorgames, msg areas, user files, etc.

    To me that is not anything individulistic but more of a hivemind.

    well it's something that wasn't very well thought out.
    why have all these bbses when the datafiles are all linked?
    why not have one?

    i'm sure it started as 'hey we can get more users in our doorgames and people don't have to setup msg echos'.
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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Sean Dennis on Fri Apr 14 06:44:00 2023
    Sean Dennis wrote to Jas Hud <=-

    My friend started a dialup ISP in the 90s and eventully sold it to Earthlink for a tidy profit.

    That would have been a good market to sell in -- the large ISPs were
    clamoring for local points-of-premise in the late 90s when dial-up was
    king.



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