[retrochallenge] Re: Communications/BBS?
- From: "Goodwin, Greg P." <GoodwinG@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <retrochallenge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:13:45 -0500
If you want to run a service on a modern machine, that's great. Just
won't get any points for it. But I'm sure you would be doing this part out of
love. ;)
Greg
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[mailto:retrochallenge-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cory Wiegersma
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:39 AM
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Subject: [retrochallenge] Communications/BBS?
Hmm... Would it be a good idea to set up a sort of
communication/messageboard/list/bbs server? If necessary, I would be
more than happy to task my PowerMac 7300/200 to that. I know that it's
not "retro" but it has a decent amount of storage, (3 gigs total,
enough for most things retro) and I have fast internet. It already
hosts my website, at http://stenoweb.hopto.org/
I can look into getting better AFP/FTP suppport over the /net, as well
as a few other things, if anybody is interested.
Unfortunately, I don't have a modem pool, but if you have a way to
telnet in over the internet, maybe using a newer machine as an
assist-machine...
Maybe it would be a good idea to have a part of the rules to act as a
provision to allow for assist-machines in certain cases. For example,
if I ran a BBS off of my computer, you might want to have a newer
machine nearby to help you connect an older computer to telnet through
that machine.
In the case of telnet... since it is only communication/filetransfer,
even though it would "technically" be running on the assist machine, I
think it should be okay. Like... you'd telnet/ssh/rlogin into the
assist machine, or use it via serial console, then you'd telnet into
the community server thing.
Any thoughts?
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