[retrochallenge] Re: Communications/BBS?
- From: "Goodwin, Greg P." <GoodwinG@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <retrochallenge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:10:46 -0500
If you are good on that, I would co-ordinate with Lorance Stinson,
since he seemed to have some good ideas for a service (though he had a hard
drive fail, and to be honest, I am having a hard time finding a good SCSI drive
quick enough.)
Greg
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:retrochallenge-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cory Wiegersma
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:06 PM
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Subject: [retrochallenge] Re: Communications/BBS?
Oh, I wasn't planning on getting points for it, It was out of love. :P
Plus, running something like that has been something I've wanted to do
for a *long* time. :)
On Jun 21, 2006, at 6:13 AM, Goodwin, Greg P. wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> 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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