Hello World!
This is another test from 1984 BBS!

-Dejavu

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/32)
* Origin: 1984 BBS (21:1/999)

Hello World!
This is another test from 1984 BBS!

Oh. Book reference. Not that we should be telling you, oh, to buy Michael Jordan rookie cards by the handful.

But hi! Welcome here!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Storm BBS (21:2/108)

Hello World!
This is another test from 1984 BBS!

Loud and clear..

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Buckeye Telegraph (21:3/108)

Hello dejavu!

On 07 Jun 2020, dejavu said the following...

Hello World!
This is another test from 1984 BBS!

-Dejavu

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/32)
* Origin: 1984 BBS (21:1/999)

Received here!
Welcome! =)

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/04/21 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

Whoohoo! Thanks for the confirmation Zip! I'm happy to know the traffic made it out successfully. Hopefully this message is getting out using the proper network id this round :)

Now to learn how you replied quoting my original message, my configuration isn't doing that by default and I prefer that!

-Dejavu

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/32)
* Origin: 1984 BBS (21:3/114)

On 08 Jun 2020, dejavu said the following...

@TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A45
@MSGID: 21:3/114 8de2fbaf
@REPLY: 21:1/202 8192af5c
@TZUTC: -0400
@SEEN-BY: 1/100 2/100 116 3/100 101 102 103 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113
@SEEN-BY: 3/114 4/100
@PATH: 3/114 100
Whoohoo! Thanks for the confirmation Zip! I'm happy to know the traffic made it out successfully. Hopefully this message is getting out using
the proper network id this round :)

Now to learn how you replied quoting my original message, my
configuration isn't doing that by default and I prefer that!

-Dejavu

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/32)
* Origin: 1984 BBS (21:3/114)

Looks to be coming from 2:3/114. :)

Jay

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms BBS | bbs.nrbbs.net | Binbrook, ON (21:3/110)

This is another test from 1984 BBS!

Big Brother is watching.


*** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: Scrawled in haste at The Lower Planes (21:3/101)

I can hear you loud and clear in Portugal.

Welcome!

---
Vasco aka Gluon

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Geek Sphere BBS (21:1/151)

Hello dejavu!

On 08 Jun 2020, dejavu said the following...

Whoohoo! Thanks for the confirmation Zip! I'm happy to know the traffic made it out successfully. Hopefully this message is getting out using
the proper network id this round :)

Yep, seems to be working just fine! :)

Now to learn how you replied quoting my original message, my
configuration isn't doing that by default and I prefer that!

Ctrl+Q brings up a quoting window in Mystic where you can hit Enter on the lines you want to quote, and Esc closes the quoting window. :)

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/04/21 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

Quoting Dejavu to All at 06-07-20 11:05 <=-

Hello World!
This is another test from 1984 BBS!

-Dejavu

-!- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/32)
! Origin: 1984 BBS (21:1/999)

Seens fine here.


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MeSSaGe SiTTeR 1.00 - Full Version
Live Long and Prosper

... BlueWave - Universe Tour - Stardate 47634.44
___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30
--- SBBSecho 3.06-Win32
* Origin: Ninho do Abutre 2 - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil * (21:1/181)

Hello Brasil.
;)

*Sotano Msx BBS*
telnet sotanomsxbbs.org:23
<Ultimo usuario activo de Msx en Ibiza>

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Sotano Msx Bbs (21:1/150)

Hi people!

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Just to tell you a little more about me, I'm from Argentina, working on IT
and a few years back,
I started tinkering (again) with bbs and networking software
again a few years ago, after watching the BBS Documentary. I'm quite sure you know what I'm talking about. :)

Not a total retrocomputer guy, but I have my little amount of retrotech in my lair.

I hope everything is well on your end!

Cheers!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Zooropa BBS (21:1/232)

On 07/19/2021 6:46 pm cyberzoo said...

Hi people!
Thanks for the warm welcome!

Glad to have you around Cyberzoo!
And glad you are part of the retro-spirit! It's really taken off and awakening us old dinasaurs that got spellbound by IBM/DOS/Windows and strayed... (e.g. me) - played with Vice here and there - but now I've got my hardware back in the house and loving it.

-=Nuke=-

--
~Nuke SYSOP Westwood BBS II King George VA USA
nuke@21:3/134 (fsx) 25:25/19 (metro) nuke@westwoodbbs.net (new crap)
telnet westwoodbbs.net 8888 (ssh 8889)
--- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.0.12-beta (linux; x64; 12.22.1)
* Origin: Westwood BBS II (21:3/134)

On 19 Jul 2021 at 02:46p, cyberzoo pondered and said...

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Hi there and welcome :)

Just to tell you a little more about me, I'm from Argentina, working on
IT and a few years back,
I started tinkering (again) with bbs and networking software
again a few years ago, after watching the BBS Documentary. I'm quite
sure you know what I'm talking about. :)

Yep :) There's a few folks here that have followed a similar pathway. The
main this is have fun with it. Some enjoy modding their BBS, others (like me) enjoy the message networks and chatting, some play the door games etc. etc..
so long as you are enjoying it, that's the main thing.

I hope everything is well on your end!

It's winter here in New Zealand and I have our fire going tonight. Lows of around 3c and highs of around 11c at the moment. Roll on spring!

Best, Paul aka Avon

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

Hello Argentina!!

haha Hi cyberzoo, nice to meet you.

and a few years back,
I started tinkering (again) with bbs and networking software
again a few years ago, after watching the BBS Documentary. I'm quite

Ah yes, a wonderful documentary. If you haven't seen it yet, I also
recommend "Back to the BBS". It's free on Youtube and it's fantastic!


--- Talisman v0.24-dev (Linux/x86_64)
* Origin: Lost Underground BBS (21:1/230)

Hi people!
Thanks for the warm welcome!

Glad to have you around Cyberzoo!

Thanks!!

And glad you are part of the retro-spirit! It's really taken off and awakening us old dinasaurs that got spellbound by IBM/DOS/Windows and strayed... (e.g. me) - played with Vice here and there - but now I've
got my hardware back in the house and loving it.

I have to admit, that my first approach was with a C64, which I still love to this day.
Then came the XT. No HD, Monochrome display. Speaker sound, which drove my mother crazy, since the machine was in our living room. At that time my
father gave some printed DOS manual that I read in a matter of hours and experimented with all the commands explained there, making batch files and so.

Oh, that was a fun time.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Zooropa BBS (21:1/232)

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Hi there and welcome :)

Thank You!

I started tinkering (again) with bbs and networking software
again a few years ago, after watching the BBS Documentary. I'm quite sure you know what I'm talking about. :)

Yep :) There's a few folks here that have followed a similar pathway. The main this is have fun with it. Some enjoy modding their BBS, others
(like me) enjoy the message networks and chatting, some play the door games etc. etc.. so long as you are enjoying it, that's the main thing.

Yeap, if I have to say why I am here, is because message networks. I remember having so much fun reading messages, exchanging some knowledge, or just chating.

I have the idea to put back my old BBS, but right now it is not my priority nr.1.

I hope everything is well on your end!

It's winter here in New Zealand and I have our fire going tonight. Lows
of around 3c and highs of around 11c at the moment. Roll on spring!

Here is winter as well. It is not the most cold we had, but it is quite cold already. Rigth now it is 10c outside, and perhaps 11c in here in my cave.

Best, Paul aka Avon

Same!!

Cyberzoo.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Zooropa BBS (21:1/232)

Hello Argentina!!

Hello!

haha Hi cyberzoo, nice to meet you.

Same!

and a few years back,
I started tinkering (again) with bbs and networking software
again a few years ago, after watching the BBS Documentary. I'm quite

Ah yes, a wonderful documentary. If you haven't seen it yet, I also recommend "Back to the BBS". It's free on Youtube and it's fantastic!

I really liked it and every now and then I watch it again, or at least a few chapters.

Didnt know about the one you mention, I will search for it now!

Cyberzoo.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Zooropa BBS (21:1/232)

On 20 Jul 2021 at 01:45p, cyberzoo pondered and said...

Yeap, if I have to say why I am here, is because message networks. I remember having so much fun reading messages, exchanging some knowledge, or just chating.

I have the idea to put back my old BBS, but right now it is not my priority nr.1.

Yeah I like chatting in echomail as I can come and read it as/when ready vs
IRC style chats that come and go and unless you are there you can tend to
miss things. So to be able to post / read when I am ready to do so does suit
me better. I also think the fact that we're all spread out across the globe makes for a delayed store/forward style of messaging as a easier option for all.

Right now it's coming up 1.22pm on my Wednesday, I'm just having lunch and checking echos :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

Yeah I like chatting in echomail as I can come and read it as/when ready vs IRC style chats that come and go and unless you are there you can
tend to miss things. So to be able to post / read when I am ready to do
so does suit me better. I also think the fact that we're all spread out across the globe makes for a delayed store/forward style of messaging as
a easier option for all.

Good point.
I think I am so used to chatting in real time that forgot the pace of echomail messaging.
It is nice to sit back a read without the need to rush a response.

Right now it's coming up 1.22pm on my Wednesday, I'm just having lunch
and checking echos :)

Here is 9.40am, finishing breakfast (late breakfast today) and getting up-to-date with messages. :)
Just like in the old days.

Cheers!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Zooropa BBS (21:1/232)

On 22 Jul 2021 at 12:40p, cyberzoo pondered and said...

Good point.
I think I am so used to chatting in real time that forgot the pace of echomail messaging.
It is nice to sit back a read without the need to rush a response.

thing is with near real time comms over the internet even FTN chatter can be rather quick if both 'chatters' are online at the same time. I've had a
delayed 1-2 min chat between both sides of the world via echomail and often wondered at that fact given back in the 90s it would be more like 4-5 days if not more depending on where the people were based.

Here is 9.40am, finishing breakfast (late breakfast today) and getting up-to-date with messages. :)
Just like in the old days.

I'm a Friday night guy after dinner as I reply to this one.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

cyberzoo wrote to Avon <=-

I think I am so used to chatting in real time that forgot the pace of echomail messaging.

It is nice to sit back a read without the need to rush a response.

It's disheartening seeing my kids who feel compelled to answer *immediately* to a text message or social media message, completely losing sight of what's happening here, now, in the moment.

Part of the beauty of BBSing for me, is the long-form nature of echomail,
and the ability to create a response, reflect on a message packet, and
change or delete a message if desired.

I used to love traveling by plane with a laptop and a QWK reader; I'd set
the new scan date to 2 weeks prior and download a monster packet, including messages I'd already read or had skimmed over.


... The five lights of the apocalypse rising struggling towards the light.
--- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
* Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)

Avon wrote (2021-07-23):

On 22 Jul 2021 at 12:40p, cyberzoo pondered and said...

Good point.
I think I am so used to chatting in real time that forgot the pace
of echomail messaging.
It is nice to sit back a read without the need to rush a response.

thing is with near real time comms over the internet even FTN chatter can be rather quick if both 'chatters' are online at the same time. I've had a delayed 1-2 min chat between both sides of the world via echomail and
often wondered at that fact given back in the 90s it would be more like
4-5 days if not more depending on where the people were based.

I remember up to three days, but often faster. In Germany there was a Fido-like network called MausNet. AFAIK all BBS systems called a central hub at least twice a day and maximum mail delivery time was 24h.

How fast did Usenet mails travel around the globe in the 90s?

---
* Origin: . (21:3/102)

How fast did Usenet mails travel around the globe in the 90s?

From '90 through '97 I ran a BBS called The Lab BBS. I pulled down Usenet and Fidonet through a Ku satellite dish from a compnay called Planet Connect. If
I remember correctly the feed from the dish to my network ran at 115k. I had
a 128k ISDN line that passed that feed out to our local 1:116/xxx Fidonet group. In '96 I went too work for a local ISP a friend of mine started and we used that same satellite connection to provide a news server for the ISP. It was a couple of days for mail to flow through the Fidonet feed. I suppose
that was due to nodes holding mail until late at night when the phone rates went down.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Lab BBS (21:3/105)

On 22 Jul 2021 at 07:25a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

Part of the beauty of BBSing for me, is the long-form nature of
echomail, and the ability to create a response, reflect on a message packet, and change or delete a message if desired.

Same here. The only downside I see at times is that people infer emotion or tone when the author has not intended his/her written post to be intended
that way.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On 27 Jul 2021 at 09:21a, Oli pondered and said...

I remember up to three days, but often faster. In Germany there was a Fido-like
network called MausNet. AFAIK all BBS systems called a central hub at least twice a day and maximum mail delivery time was 24h.
How fast did Usenet mails travel around the globe in the 90s?

I think it was much much faster... not days for sure.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On 29 Jul 2021, Avon said the following...

Same here. The only downside I see at times is that people infer emotion or tone when the author has not intended his/her written post to be intended that way.

I think that's true of almost any written communication. I've written some emails at work and then I find myself backspacing over one or more sentences because I don't want it to come across wrong. Turning up the Canadian politeness can also help sometimes... ;)


Jay

... A group of the unfit appointed by the unwilling to do the necessary.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/07/28 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

On 29 Jul 2021 at 08:58a, Warpslide pondered and said...

I think that's true of almost any written communication. I've written some emails at work and then I find myself backspacing over one or more sentences because I don't want it to come across wrong. Turning up the Canadian politeness can also help sometimes... ;)

I've also tried to do this and most times all is well. But when someone
infers something else it's almost impossible to get them to consider to see
it differently :( The joys of text comms huh?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On 30 Jul 2021, Avon said the following...

I've also tried to do this and most times all is well. But when someone infers something else it's almost impossible to get them to consider to see it differently :( The joys of text comms huh?

How dare you take that tone with me? :P


Jay

... I used to be schizophrenic, but we're alright now.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/07/28 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

Am I Back? ;)

.\\ichael (a.k.a. StiZzed)
SysOp, The ROCK BBS III

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The ROCK III - therockbbs.net - TELNET:10023 (21:4/156)

On 18 Jan 2025, stizzed said the following...

@TZUTC: -0500
@MSGID: 21:4/156 18f29687
@TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48
@PID: clrghouz 35c5b3da
@DBID: 663132
@PATH: 1/100 3/100 110
Am I Back? ;)

.\\ichael (a.k.a. StiZzed)
SysOp, The ROCK BBS III

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The ROCK III - therockbbs.net - TELNET:10023 (21:4/156)

You're back!


Jay

... How do you make a water bed more bouncy. You use Spring Water

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

Am I Back? ;)

.\\ichael (a.k.a. StiZzed)
SysOp, The ROCK BBS III

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The ROCK III - therockbbs.net - TELNET:10023 (21:4/156)

Apparently so. :)


* SLMR 2.1a * Eschew Obfuscation!
--- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux
* Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (21:1/175)

Am I Back? ;)

Loud and clear here !

|15-|12t|04G
|15www|08.|15theun|07dergrou|08nd|07.|08us|15:|0810023

... Condense soup, not books!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Linux/64)
* Origin: www.theunderground.us Telnet 10023 SSH 7771 (21:3/165)

Am I Back? ;)

w00h00 - got ya in Portland, chap!



|07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
|08.........

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
* Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)

On |1519 Jan 2025|08, |15paulie420 |08said the following...

w00h00 - got ya in Portland, chap!

hahahaha! Always a pleasure Paulie!

Best to you!

.\\ichael (a.k.a. StiZzed)
SysOp, The ROCK BBS III

... WOMAN.ZIP - Great program but no documentation

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The ROCK III - therockbbs.net - TELNET:10023 (21:4/156)

On 18 Jan 2025 at 10:48p, stizzed pondered and said...

Am I Back? ;)

.\\ichael (a.k.a. StiZzed)
SysOp, The ROCK BBS III

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The ROCK III - therockbbs.net - TELNET:10023 (21:4/156)

I think so :) Hello again <-- The Cars 1984

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)