BBSs & PPP

From: Glen Goodwin <acme_ent_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: Sat Nov 2 12:31:13 2002

In the days before 'net access was commonly available to ordinary folks
like me, I used to spend a fair amount of time on BBSs, so I thought it
might be fun to use my older machines to do some BBSing. Unfortunately,
results from Google suggest that most BBSs are now only Telnet-accessible.

Anyone know where to get a fairly current list of dial-up BBSs?

I'm also having a hell of a time trying to find an ISP which can provide a
dial-up shell account (with POP3 email) which doesn't require PPP or SSH.
I could code PPP drivers for a vintage micro (although it would suck up a
lot of time), but I doubt that I could get both PPP and TCP/IP running on a
system with 64 KB RAM or less.

Anyone know where to find an ISP which provides plain old dial-up access
from a micro running a terminal program?

TIA --

Glen
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
And if not now, when?
-- Pirkei Avot
Received on Sat Nov 02 2002 - 12:31:13 GMT