Subj : Morning
To   : All
From : Emptymind
Date : Wed Oct 20 2004 10:55 pm

Well I was looking over the old hobbies list, and looked up BBS's. Wow how
things have changed over the past 10 years. 

Then I look, and find that the BBS system has a newsgroup interface for reading
the message bases. Where was this stuff 10 years ago when i was forking out
400$ for a 14Kbps modem!! let alone the 300bps one i started with about 15 - 20
years ago.

So i hook into the nntp feed.. and find that my 3 biggest hobbies.. Internet
(Im a Sysadmin), the BBS, and HAM radio.. all in one married state.. I think I
am about to cry in happiness.. 

(my wife reading over my shoulder states 'you are offically a geek' to which i
reply.. 'duh') 

Hopefully I will get a copy of the bbs running, (the linux install is not quite
as straight forward as the windows version it would appear) and I can imagine
that it wont be long before I try connecting to the system over a MixW2 IP
radio link.. hmmmm.. gonna need a new HF antenna i think.. hehehehe.. 

73's
James - VA7MTY

Hmm.. had to log INTO the bbs to post his but hey.. is NNTP just not postable?
or did i miss something?

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