On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 2:20:14 PM UTC-8, Gary McCulloch wrote:
> .-: On Tue 9-Feb-2021 5:37a, Larry Anderson@3:770/3.0 wrote :-.
> LA: You mean the multi BBS-platform communication they did in the mid to
> LA: late90s? I was a member of CommNet but I was running Image BBS not C-Net.
> Yes, that is the one. Did you have any docs or files for it? Even if
> it was Image, it still could be usefull.
Not really, like I said it was mainly the hub boards that developed and had the
code for it, they had like a custom protocol to be part of the other BBS
network, then translate the posts into Image and then send it out and
visa-versa. So more or less
they modified the other BBSs message transfer system to work on Image (or
whatever BBS they were using) and then ran through the incoming and post it as
if it game from another board in the local network. If you can figure out the
message structure and
protocol of your BBS and then what you want to connect to its not too hard to
work out (most of the message systems were very similar to each other). Just
takes a bit of work.
Back in the day there were hundreds of messages showing up weekly this
screenshot https://portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=larry:comp
:bbs:slrbar.gif was from the time note the number of total posts and responses,
those were actual
numbers. (sigh unfortunately the BBS crashed in 1999 or so and lost the bulk
of the old messages, not sure how many were on it when I shut down the board in
2004.)
All of the disks I have were for the image network, mainly stuff to better
transfer posts/emails between other image BBSs; there was a two-way transfer
one so one board could both send and recive updates on one call (before each
BBS had to call each
other to send), an archive component to pack up posts for smaller transfers,
and there was going to be a distributed automatid BBS program update module but
I don't think that was finished.
I'm not setup to dig through the old commodore disks right now.
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