Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Spectre
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 06:58:00

-=> Spectre wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Sp> FirstClass BBS used to be a pain in the patooty though.  If you let it
 Sp> run indefinately it'd eat the HFS file system somehow. I'd have to pull
 Sp> it down at least monthly and hit it with diskfix or was it first aid? I
 Sp> forget, in order to keep it flying reliably.

I've got a funny FirstClass story - well, funny to a telecom geek.

Back in the '90s, I had an engineering team that set up a FirstClass server 
for a remote development office in local toll territory - back then, one of 
the most expensive calling areas, as anyone in their teen years dialing up 
what they thought was a local BBS learned the hard way.

The team manager was insistent that there be as little latency as possible, 
so he set the Firstclass server to dial out every 10 minutes.

I got a $400 bill the first month. Checked with the manager and he was 
adamant that it needed to be that way. I asked if he could set each side to 
FC's equivalent of crashmail, but the other end didn't want to pay for the 
calls - and he wasn't convinced it would provide the needed level of 
latency (and his department wasn't paying the bill...)

I checked with my telco broker who walked me through an ingenious set up. I 
set up busy call forwarding on my FC line for $4.95 a month. Set the busy 
call forward destination to be the other FC server. Set my FC server to call 
*itself*. Bingo -- calls went out for $4.95 a month plus "messaging units", 
which worked out to around $15-$20 a month.





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