It turns out port 8080 wasn't liked I switched to 999 and it works fine.
Sorry for the flood. Hopefully this will help someone, but I doubt it.
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Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, pop3, ftp,nntp,
,wss) (Ports 22,23,110,21,119,8080) (ssh login 'bbs' pass 'shsbbs').
*** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
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* Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere
telnet://shsbbs.net (1:340/1101)