It's a joy to be able to check into the BBS at different times of the
day and find new messages to read.
Thanks to Avon and all the long-timers for keeping things running and
also improving along the way!
It is uncanny isn't it!
Like I post stuff to fsx from another BBS and I'll
think Oh I need to do something to mine and I'll bop
over here and voila here it is!
I was just writing about HF packet radio BBS and at
300bps +- atmospheric conditions it could be really
hairy affair getting the smallest text messages through!
It is uncanny isn't it!
Like I post stuff to fsx from another BBS and I'll
think Oh I need to do something to mine and I'll bop
over here and voila here it is!
A couple of times it's given me an odd feeling - like waitaminute, the
pace of things on BBSes was slow, I thought! Round trip of ~2 minutes
on messages is incredible. (for example clrghz test replies)
telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-
A couple of times it's given me an odd feeling - like waitaminute, the
pace of things on BBSes was slow, I thought! Round trip of ~2 minutes
on messages is incredible. (for example clrghz test replies)
i've set a cron job to only toss mail in every 20 mins,
so the illusion stays there a tiny bit :)
I just want to take a moment to say that fsxNet mail travels so fast it's wonderful. The modern era of BBSing where always-on internet is ubiquitous has some perks!
I was still calling long distance for mail when I ran a BBS in the 90s,
so one pickup in the middle of the night was all I did. Anyway back
then the echoes moved much slower than today.
It's a joy to be able to check into the BBS at different times of the
day and find new messages to read.
Thanks to Avon and all the long-timers for keeping things running and
also improving along the way!
I just want to take a moment to say that fsxNet mail travels so fast it's wonderful. The modern era of BBSing where always-on internet is ubiquitous has some perks!
Thanks to Avon and all the long-timers for keeping things running and
also improving along the way!
i've set a cron job to only toss mail in every 20 mins, so the illusion stays there a tiny bit :)
lost with this software.. So one night I asked a question in the Mystic echo, Avon replied and I had the response within 5 minutes! Then Al replied, and we all were going back and forth just about in real time.
It was so wild, Avon is on the other side of the world from me, Al is up in Canada somewhere. What used to take days to get I was getting
responses in minutes! LOL
Agree - fsxNet was one of the first things I found when I came back to BBSing, and as you said FTNs are much different from the FidoNet days. I remember knowing how many hours/days netmail would take to reach
different friends that I'd write to depending on where they were in the world. :P
Avon wrote to paulie420 <=-
I recall in the 90's a number of local FTN networks in the city I was living, and then there were networks like Demimonde, RGSNet (Renegade Support Network), of course Fidonet etc... I mostly read and posted to echomail but did do some limited netmails often to local sysops etc...
but it always felt then (as it does now) to be a fairly quick thing to post something, come back next day or two and read some replies.
A couple of times it's given me an odd feeling - like waitaminute,
the pace of things on BBSes was slow, I thought! Round trip of ~2
minutes on messages is incredible. (for example clrghz test
replies)
i've set a cron job to only toss mail in every 20 mins,
so the illusion stays there a tiny bit :)
Brilliant!!
I do really enjoy how truly 'authentic' your BBS feels, Roon, running
OS/2 on a Pentium and your other nice touches around the system - it
does feel more 'true' to my memory than many others.
telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-
On 01 Apr 2024 at 10:51p, Roon pondered and said...
i've set a cron job to only toss mail in every 20 mins, so the
illusion stays there a tiny bit :)
I like the speed and have all my settings to CRASH, so the BBS exports
and sends away within 20 secs of me hitting save, at times it's nice
to come back within a few minutes and have a reply. Some chats I have
had over the years have been global in nature and kind of near real
time, if you allow for a gap of 2-4 mins between post and response.
That always gives me a buzz :)
telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-
i have a second reason for running tossing only 3 times in an hour: the old pentium and the slow I/O just dont have enough horsepower for tossing all the time. the whole system got very slow when every small packet got tossed in every 10 sec. :)
On 01 Apr 2024 at 06:39p, Bucko pondered and said...
this rings bells :)
Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not
When I got my first FTP FTN feed, I was in heaven - I could poll hourly, for free! Unfortunately, by that time, 1997 or so, Fido networks were on the decline.
i have a second reason for running tossing only 3 times in an hour: the old pentium and the slow I/O just dont have enough horsepower for
tossing all the time. the whole system got very slow when every small packet got tossed in every 10 sec. :)
I recall gating Usenet to FTN packets back around 1993, it was a
kludge setup using Waffle BBS and some other FTP packet tossers. The
PC was always working hard.
Waffle <-> Fredmail <-> Squish <-> Fidogate <-> My Board
Yes I recall using Squish and Watergate along with Renegade BBS and Waffle (from memory)
| Sysop: | Weed Hopper |
|---|---|
| Location: | Clearwater, FL |
| Users: | 14 |
| Nodes: | 6 (0 / 6) |
| Uptime: | 60:31:14 |
| Calls: | 40 |
| Files: | 50,060 |
| D/L today: |
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| Messages: | 267,483 |