Well the last while I have ‘rediscovered’ the fun of
BBS’ing. There is a resurgence of popularity of the
Synchronet BBS software. The cool thing about it is the ease to setup the
QWK messages (it just uses ftp!) and within 30 minutes of downloading and installing I had myself a node
VERT’s quicknet!
You too can download your very own BBS software here.
There is even a GREAT terminal emulator suitably named Syncterm that completes the experence. It supports rsh, telnet, ssh, x/y/z modem and cool ANSI graphics!
Another exciting aspect of the whole thing is that you can easily link up USENET servers with this BBS software… And of course it provides some involved web server wirtten in javascript.
The source to the whole thing is GPL’d so there is some hope that this will allow BBS’s to continue out there for some time.
Oh yeah and I did get a VPS so I do plan on hosting some of the old files from vaxenrule.com .. In ther interim though you can connect to the ‘underground’ BBS @ 75.127.119.16 … You could telnet in with any old telnet client, but I’d suggest Syncterm!
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It’s always cool to see them pop up in the wild.  So here is the quick writeup on gabucino.be going over some of the trials of setting up bbs.gabucino.be ..