Subj : retro bbses
To   : UTOPIAN GALT
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Wed Aug 20 2025 09:09 am

> i remember dialing into a waffle bbs that had basic email and newsgroups.

I used to run one, sort of.  Back in time, in order to get usenet ported to
most bbses, you needed to use waffle to make the connections and then some
shim (or two) to get the messages flowing between the waffle system and
your actual bbs.

IIRC, the shim in this case was called fredmail and would convert the
messages in the waffle bases to FTN packets for squish to find and toss...
and vise-versa for outbound traffic.

At any rate, the waffle bbs ran in local mode so that I could sometimes log
in and check things out.  Because that was originally the only reason I had
for using a fido tosser, the directory that squish lives in on my system is
still named "WAFFLE".  ;)


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