Subj : BBS location
To   : All
From : Kay Shapero
Date : Sat Oct 07 2000 02:35 am

Actually it's fairly easy to get at FIDOnet off the internet - just find a BBS 
that's set up to reach via telnet.  A number of these are listed in the 
nodelist; there are two just in my own net (net 102):

Gene Gjesvold's Hooray 4 Hollywood telnet://bbs.h4h.com
Phil Hansford's Mysteria telnet://mysteria.com

But there are plenty more out there.  If you check my site at 
http://home.earthlink.net/~kayshapero/fidonet.htm you'll find links to several 
FIDO webrings which will have more.

You can also set up as a point, that being a private BBS that only needs to be 
on line when you poll for your mail.  Which can be to a bossnode over the 
phone, or you can even get it over the internet where a lot of mail gets 
carried anyway.  You can even set it up to automatically do this at whatever 
time you feel like, just like a regular BBS.  For that matter, if you have a 
BBS you can call but you're worried about your phone bill, a simple off line 
reader saves you a lot of time - you dial up, it downloads new mail in whatever 
echoes you're reading plus your netmail, and you hang up again.  

--- Msged TE 06 (pre)
 # Origin: StormGate Aerie BBS 1-310-822-6729 (1:102/524)
 * Origin: ConchGate (1:106/357.0)

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