Subj : Re: Greetings To : Ned Brickley From : Aceboy Date : Sat Jun 11 2005 12:45 am Re: Re: Greetings By: Ned Brickley to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Jun 10 2005 11:00 pm > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet > > Greetings as well. I used BBS's way back when, until I got that $600 > phone bill one month. :) > > Then I found the internet and started working for ISP's back in the > early 90's. I just sort of forgot about BBS's after that. Now I'm a > corporate IT drone and was reading something new.com about BBS's and > found out about Synchronet. > > I thought, what the heck? and downloaded and installed it. I have to > say it went in very smoothly and I'm slowly learning how to make it > work. > > At this point I don't know if I will be leaving it online with the > computer I'm using. I'm going to see if I can get my hands on one of > the old systems where I work that is do for scrapping due to old age. > If a PII and a chunk of RAM will do, I'll bring that online and use > it. > > No doubt I will be asking many many questions in the future. For now > I'll just sit back and lurk a bit. > > Once I'm more secure in how this works I'll post the address.:) > > -- > Ned Welcome aboard. Glad to have new people checking out Synchronet. I'm coming up on my 4th continious year of being online, so it is definately a great package to use. Hope you decide to stay. --- þ Synchronet þ The DarkSide BBS *** Telnet://darkside.dtdns.net .