Subj : Re: What do you get out of running a BBS?
To   : Vorlonze
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Apr 07 2021 08:34:19

  Re: Re: What do you get out of running a BBS?
  By: Vorlonze to Nightfox on Wed Apr 07 2021 10:09 am

 Vo> Bell Canada just came out with Call Forwarding for your landline. That
 Vo> gave me a great idea. What if I setup a headless system in a town that was
 Vo> local to both London & Woodstock? And local to Kitchener & Woodstock?
 Vo> These systems would have a basic BBS setup (Mailer D'Bridge and BBS
 Vo> software JetBBS, thank you Jet!) in where they would take advantage of
 Vo> Call Forwarding. 
 Vo> D'bridge would answer and based on who was calling (user or My system(s))
 Vo> and start the appropriate task.
 Vo> To break it down:
 Vo> User in Woodstock called my system in Ingersoll. On the Ingersoll system
 Vo> they can choose a BBS system in Londo thay want to call. 
 Vo> Ingersoll system logs them off and then starts the Call Forward process. 
 Vo> After about a minute the user calls the ingersool system back and behold!
 Vo> They are connected to the BBS they chose in London. Mean while the
 Vo> Ingersoll system reset the call forwarding. As long as that user did not
 Vo> hang up, they would stay connected.

That's cool :)

 Vo> And then came the Internet. User activity fell greatly. Shut the board
 Vo> down in 1996. 

I ran my original BBS from 1994 to 2000.  In 2000, it was rarely getting any users.

Nightfox
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