Subj : How did you find out about bulletin boards?
To   : akacastor
From : Infiltrator
Date : Mon Jun 03 2024 00:22:26

Thanks for your interest.  I am guessing a lot of the text files you read
probably covered boxing, using various tones.  The other risky ones were the
"950" numbers basically prepaid calling cards and other similar phone cards.

Thinking back of the ways to achieve long distance was to:

Dial the discovered 800 numbers and using any outbound modem connections they offered. These numbers were mostly Universities.

Calling anything that had a PBX and wait when the receiver would disconnect you might get a dial tone on that system.

When on a system with outbound modems sending a Hayes AT command "a/" would send/show the last modem command sent.  This would often result in undiscovered numbers/BBSs and even other places.

I really enjoyed coming back from school and having new numbers to dial as my
wardialer was sending the output to my printer.

There were a lot of systems that I fumble my way to use.  Goal was never to be destructive but use it to learn.


-Infiltrator

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