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  • A what if scenario...

    From Gary Gordon@VERT/RICKSBBS to Spaceboy on Wed Jul 30 07:35:39 2025
    Re: A what if scenario...
    By: Spaceboy to All on Fri Jul 12 2024 08:44 pm

    Consider this scenario: you are stuck behind a merciless filter and BBS is y only coms with the outside world. Assuming you have Win10 and you can only u non-http services/ports like telnet and ftp, what software would you have to have? Could you do everything you need to do this way?

    Think of it like a desert island scenario, or as if you got suddenly transported to the early 90s (with a Win10 laptop). What software, bare minimum, do you have to have to survive?

    I pose the question this way to get some input on the best tools as I am getting familiar with this scene after being gone 26 years.

    -Spaceboy

    I like this SyncTERM I am using on my windows 10 pc.

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  • From Ed Vance@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Gary Gordon on Sat Aug 16 15:00:37 2025
    Re: A what if scenario...
    By: Spaceboy to All on Fri Jul 12 2024 08:44 pm

    I like this SyncTERM I am using on my windows 10 pc.

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    I used FTP to send a REP packet I made with MultiMail DOS and FTP to get a QWK packet to read new mail from this BBS when my XPbox had DSL.

    Used a BATch file to start a FRP script for either way..

    Just thought I would open my big mouth about what I have done on XP ( notWin10) Ed
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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLTBBS to Ed Vance on Tue Sep 2 17:30:43 2025
    Ed,

    I used FTP to send a REP packet I made with MultiMail DOS and
    FTP to get a QWK packet to read new mail from this BBS when my
    XPbox had DSL.

    Used a BATch file to start a FRP script for either way..

    Just thought I would open my big mouth about what I have done
    on XP ( notWin10) Ed

    Unfortunately, anything before Windows 10 is no longer supported,
    and Windows 10 will join that in October.

    The previous BBS computer (which belonged to my late Mom) was
    running Windows 10 on it, but I think the motherboard and CPU just
    "ran out of steam"...and it wouldn't surprise me if some of the
    Windows Updates contributed to that.

    I tried installing Linux Mint Cinnamon, but the motherboard was
    too old.

    Daryl

    ... The CD/DVD Drive is NOT a computer cup holder!!
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
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