Subj : Re: FTelnet Y-Modem G
To   : Ryan Fantus
From : Nick Andre
Date : Fri Dec 09 2022 10:44 pm

On 09 Dec 22  16:30:53, Ryan Fantus said the following to T.J. Mcmillen:

RF> How many people let the internet into their home firewall because they want
RF> run a DOS BBS? If you ask me, /THAT/ is what's retarded. I travel for work 

I'm one of them... I pay for a commercial-grade Internet connection, have a
good firewall and freely allow connections on port 23. Which is running an
obsolete OS running a DOS BBS. Also a dialup line which gets maybe a few
callers a month. Usually some maniac in the boonies with an old Thinkpad
and a long-distance plan to call Toronto and wayyyyy too much free time. Who
has complained via email - Internet email - when he can't dial in. To my BBS.

The decision to pay for those things and my DOS BBS also powers the entire
backoffice operation of Fidonet between two zones, tosses mail to close to a
hundred links using some stuff dating back to... '87 I think. All for others
to keep enjoying... Ask TJ/Exodus, I really only use RG for cranking out 
messages. Thousands, literally thousands I've written since '94. If others 
call my board and enjoy whats here, good for them.

While our resident Professor effeminately screams murder that I'll be "hacked
tomorrow" I've made many long lasting friendships from running that silly
system or at least able to trade bizarre banter with total strangers. Theres
something amusing about not knowing who will vanish tomorrow... who will
die and leave their computer unattended until a relative, police or landlord
shuts it off. I have a very morbid dark sense of humor.

"Retarded" is very subjective... 99% of the world thinks we're ALL nuts for 
what we're doing here.

Nick

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