Subj : The BBBS FDN
To   : Janis Kracht
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Tue Oct 19 2021 11:35 pm

Hello Janis,

 >> I was just taking a walk through the filegate.zxx, comparing my
 >> areas with those listed and I don't see the BBBS FDN listed in
 >> there. Did that FDN drop away?

 JK> There were a few problems here... First, Jame Clay left fidonet - he
 JK> and Kim Heino were the coordinators of the BBBS FDN... Secondly, Kim
 JK> really did not use Fidonet to release new versions of BBBS, but rather
 JK> had people download the correct version they needed from his site at
 JK> bbbs.net, where it remains available for download :)

That's true of the recent updates to BBBS. They require an installed base.

There hasn't been a BBBS release since 2007.. so I wouldn't call the BBBS areas high traffic.. :)

Kim has released new versions of bterm just after the last BBBS updates.

There are updated versions for linux 32/64/Rpi, Windows and OS/2.

 JK> I can put it back in the list of file echos, I still have the content
 JK> here for the FDN:

 JK> % FDN:          BBBS File Distribution Network  (BBBS FDN)
 JK> % Coordinator:
 JK> % BACKBONE TAG: BBBS.ENGLISH
 JK> % Internet: http://filegate.net/pub/bbbs/
 JK> % PATH: DIRECT
 JK> % HUB:  No
 JK> % --------------------------------------------------------------------
 JK> ---- % File Echo                   Description %
 JK> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 JK> -- Area BBBSUTIL    0     !       BBBS: New BBBS Related
 JK> Utilities Area BBBS-2      0     !       BBBS: BBBS and BTerm for OS/2
 JK> Area BBBS-D      0     !       BBBS: BBBS and BTerm for DOS
 JK> Area BBBS-FBI    0     !       BBBS: BBBS and BTerm for FreeBSD
 JK> Area BBBS-IRS    0     !       BBBS: BBBS and BTerm for IRIX
 JK> Area BBBS-L      0     !       BBBS: BBBS and BTerm for Linux
 JK> Area BBBS-NT     0     !       BBBS: BBBS and BTerm for
 JK> Windows95/98/NT Area BBBS-SOS    0     !       BBBS: BBBS and BTerm
 JK> for Solaris Area BBBS-SUM    0     !       BBBS: BBBS and BTerm for
 JK> SunOS/M Area BBBS-SUS    0     !       BBBS: BBBS and BTerm for
 JK> SunOS/S Area BBBS-ULD    0     !       BBBS: BBBS and BTerm for Ultrix
 JK> Area BBBS-UW     0     !       BBBS: BBBS and BTerm for UnixWare

 JK> Any preferences?  Would you like to contact Kim and see if he'd like
 JK> to have his product on the filegate list of areas?

It looks like today the only OS's supported are BBBS-L, BBBS-2 and BBBS-NT.

I suppose I could contact Kim but I don't know him well. Do you think that would be a good thing?

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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