Subj : [--- FNOS FTP TCP/IP ---]
To   : Howard Eisenberger
From : wsmith
Date : Fri Sep 08 2000 02:08 am

RE: [--- FNOS FTP TCP/IP ---]
BY: Howard Eisenberger to Winston Smith on Thu Sep 07 2000 20:02:44

 >  like Telix, etc.? If they, and I assume you mean your gateway server,
 >  want you to use FTP, why isn't it on the menu? If they don't want you
 >  to download binary files at all, why are you trying to?
 
     I didn't know FTP --COULD-- be on a modem gateway.  I assumed that TCP/IP
formed the connection and that FTP was just a series of commands issued from
your desktop.  I assumed that things had gone LAN by now?  Here is the
situation.  The BBS that I am on now has dropped his modem line.  I am trying
to preserve my traditional use of the BBS.  When I enter the files section, the
BBS displays a banner asking me to FTP to port 22.  I assume that TELNET BBSes
now want to use FTP.  I know nothing about using FTP from a PC, or about TELNET
only BBSes.  I do not know --WHAT-- the people at the modem server want!  I
would rather use the telephone, but, alas, the Sysops don't want to anymore!  I
am trying to find a method to stay in touch.  If all I can do in the future is
leave messages, and I have to drop file activity, so be it.  I can use the
"sneaker net"; I can use floppy mailers; I can go to user group "set up"
nights; I can go to university clubs.  I am just trying to "tread water".  We
are below ten BBSes in Boston and rapidly falling.  We lost two "super" boards
and three regular boards over the summer.  We have one Telegard BBS, three
WildCat! BBSes, two FirstClass BBSes, one PC-BOARD BBS, and one Synchronet. 
This is from a high total of 350 boards in 1995.  (One BBS is run by the
electric company, another is run by the police department, a third is run by a
supermarket.  We have three or four BBSes run by private Sysops.) 
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