Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : boraxman
From : Andre
Date : Tue Apr 05 2022 07:10:04

 bo> This is what we should be working towards. Does this involve BBS's? Maybe,
 bo> maybe not. A BBS which is open to all involved, but invisible to others is
 bo> indeed possible. Is this a future model, who knows? But we should at least
 bo> be discussings ways we can ameliorate this rather poor state we are in at
 bo> the moment.

Let's be clear about what you're asking. There is this community of hobbiests whose common interest is a vintage and nostalgic messaging platform, who have been communicating under this same social contract around sysop/user and near-anarchy. You want them to change behavior and expectations, that have been entrenched sometime between BBS-networking and usenet gateways, to change their philsophies about the whole thing and then pile hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours of effort into modernizing BBS software, messaging protocols, developing federated access between different systems, and then roll that out to hundreds of systems people run out of their homes.

There is *nothing* stopping you from doing this work yourself and creating a network like you're describing of likeminded BBS operators. You could even try to find some of them that would help develop it. But that's really where this discussion should end.

This is a hobby. Nothing more. BBS will never be more relevant than they currently are (enjoyment and nostalgia).


- Andre
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