I interviewed Josh Sklar on my run through New York City a week ago, after we'd gone back and forth in e-mail for nearly a half-year. He'd been in the Austin...
Just got an email back from the Phrack staff in essence saying thanks for asking members of the 80sbbs list to come join their private "Knights" list. The...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the 80sBBS group. File : /Bbsfwa.txt ...
Hello, I am searching for a collection of really bad text files from the group Psycho Pot-Heads with Boners (aka PPwB) (also misspelled as PYSCHO POT-HEADS...
Totally. I would *love* to have a copy of GBBS Pro again, it's the first BBS system I ran (It was really a BBS scripting language... you could change the...
I can't wait for you to do that. There is some obscure old Shareware I have been looking for, and I just bet they are on one of those disks. <DEMAND> When do...
Yea - this is exciting for me too.. There are several bbs softwares that I had way back in the day that I would like to find.. Jason - you may want to add...
Well, my trusty Windows 95 box finally took a nice hit and ended up imploding, which threw everything back a week while I went and ordered new parts. Now I'm...
Anyone from the St. Louis metro area? Im looking to get a good list of BBs's from the 618 area code..Im also looking for some old text files I wrote in the...
This might be of interest to those of you that like reading textfiles about the bizarre. Some of you may already know about it. "Beyond the Illusion" bbs still...
Jason, You haven't found an email address for him, have you? Thanks, Mark -- ... http://retrobbs.org http://bbs.yagni.com ... "There39;s your answer, fishbulb" ...
In a message dated 4/1/02 4:56:20 PM Central Standard Time, ... It appears that Mustang Software may have had both Qmodem and Colossus, but that John Friel...
Well... Lets see. 1) Being on a network is good advertising. Every message from my system goes out with a tagline with my BBS name and address on it. 2) I...
Good Afternoon, I don't know about everybody here, but I'd sure like to get a quick update on Jason's documentary progress. Being a part of some of the more...
The Cult of the Dead Cow started around the Lubbock, TX area between three teenagers who were in local BBSes: Swamp Rat, Franken Gibe, and Sid Vicious....
I'm heading to Washington, DC this weekend to interview Vinton Cerf. Any other of you folks I should be meeting/greeting while down there? I'm coming in...
... Now that kicks azz :) Cerf must have some pretty interesting things to share, I'm looking forward to reading this one. Are you going to knock on RMS's...
I first started BBS'ing as a user in 1984 with a Commodore 64. I remember when downloading a game at 300 baud took days. Then when 2400 came out, it was like...
What was the name of that DOS BBS program that was all graphical? I remember downloading it and trying it. It was a bear to set up and you had to use their...
Heh. I used to run GBBS Pro, on an Apple ][+ with a 300 baud modem. And people used to call it. Lots of people. Wow. The GBBS Pro software was really a...
Hi, I just subscribed, but I havn't read through the archives yet on yahoogroups (ugh I hate web interfaces for that kinda of stuff)... Anyway I started off...
Hi. I've been wrestling for years with the idea of setting up my old BBS system again on a Telnet connection, mainly to show the younger generation how it used...
... Sure. I'm happy to talk about that. What *do* you think is worth saving? ... I hope you're right about that. I want to try to bring the scene back. I...
I'm honestly surprised that anyone pays any attention to any message with the words 'Digital Avatar' in it, but I'll leave it at that. Several folks did get...
Just an FYI - I'll be going out of town until August 30th, so I won't be here to do any moderating or anything like that. I've turned off moderation for new...