Subj : BBS-Networks
To   : AKAcastor
From : deon
Date : Thu Mar 21 2024 09:54 pm

  Re: BBS-Networks
  By: AKAcastor to N2qfd on Wed Mar 20 2024 10:51 am

Howdy,

 >  n>   I'm curious if anyone has ever put together a document
 >  n> that shows the different BBS networks and gives a brief
 >  n> synopses for them?
 >
 > I agree this would be useful.  Navigating the different BBS networks is one
 > of the areas of BBSing that I think can be overwhelming for newcomers (or
 > the newly returned), and information about which networks are active can
 > sometimes be out of date.

So when I created clrghouz, this was/is one of my goals. I've captured some networks, but I know it isnt up to date.

https://clrghouz.bbs.dege.au/domain/list

Systems that poll clrghouz (or it polls) and present all their address, it will capture it and it's slowly building a list of (configured) networks as well. Its not 100% since not all mailers are 5D and guessing which domain 3D/4D address belongs to is not reliable.

 > I'd be interested in seeing average traffic volumes for the different
 > networks maybe over the past 6 months.  Having counts of automated posts
 > separated from human discussion would be really nice too.

For the networks that clrghouz is a part of, I've done that. My aim is also to move all my nets from my BBS to clrghouz and join some other nets as well so that it can be a reference for somebody looking to join FTN networks. (Happy for anybody running a net to add clrghouz to it.)

I've been pretty occupied with other things at the moment, so my activity with clrghouz has been paused, but when I find some time I'll do some more..

(Its a bit slow at the moment, because I'm not deleting messages - and there are many DB records [21mil seenby records from 710,000 echomails] that are queried to build some of the stats - so if you hit the website and its slow, hang on a bit longer and it should display eventually :)


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