Subj : Re: Net2BBS
To   : Marceline Jones
From : C.g. Learn
Date : Sat Mar 27 2021 04:09 pm

MJ> I tend to think of Net2BBS as NetSerial Lite.

It's not, they are two compleatly different programs.
 
MJ> Does NetSerial have anti-portscanning features ?

I don't think so

MJ> If Net2BBS only spawns BBS processes on demand, then the "Who's Online" me
MJ> will not show all the nodes. I want people to see that I have 256 nodes wa
MJ> for a connection.

If you have 256 nodes set up in your BBS config, they should show up as
just "offline" or "Waiting For Call". Honestly in todays bbs world, why 
would you want 256 nodes. If a caller hit "Whos Online", and has to 
scroll through 12 pages of "waiting for calls", he/she is lible to 
disconnect and move on. I would love to have all my nodes busy with 
callers, but the fact is, that's not gonna happen these days. I have 15 
nodes available, 5 for each one of my systems, and It's a good day if 2 
nodes are busy at the same time by legit callers. Let's face it, most of
todays callers are other sysops in the hobby. I've been in this hobby 
since the early 90's, and I've seen the day when I had ten callers on at
one time. I used to run a paid system, with 10 incomming phone lines, 
and if felt good making that money, but I always put it back in the 
system, and paid for dinners for my co sysops. I had a good run, about 3
years as a paid system, but eventually, I dropped the paid, and gave 
free access to all. As a sysop, I try to be the best I can be, not the 
biggest I can be. Give the user a quality system, make it your own, and 
they will come. 

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