Subj : Low level BBS tech
To   : hollowone
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Dec 02 2023 05:44 pm

  Re: Low level BBS tech
  By: hollowone to All on Sat Dec 02 2023 02:18 pm

 > Now I'm becoming curious about more lower level understanding of underlying
 > tech stack that BBS world represents.
 >
 >
 > First pick is ECHO and mail/message sharing system present here.

The term "echo" here is likely in reference to the conferences/forms of FidoNet technology networks. If you mean some other "echo", please clarify.

 > I understand that there are some protocols and links between instances or
 > servers that can communicate to share messages between boards, approve some
 > changes (like I experienced on 20-4-BEERS that I can edit my message already
 > posted to a local board or FTN).. There seem to be a lot of tech contracts
 > defined by standards that are not easy to find as this is legacy tech...
 >
 > Can somebody point me to starters if I wanted to understand low-level specs
 > related to message transfering/sharing protocols used by BBSes, in more a
 > guided tutorial way?

For FidoNet technology standards and other docs, see http://ftsc.org
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