Hi Inphrared,
In a message to All you wrote:

Subject: Tap.. tap.. tap.. is this thing on?

Yup.

in BC, Canada. And I'm wondering who all is here. You can't be here
because this is the popular thing to do, right? I mean, we must be

Conversation is why I'm here. I find the old style BBS interface is much easier to discuss things in. No pictures, no videos, no distractions.

I hope you are well. It's nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you too.

Shawn

... Predestination was doomed from the start.


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Hello Tiny,

On Sat Dec 07 2024 06:41 am CST, you wrote:

Hi Inphrared,
In a message to All you wrote:

Subject: Tap.. tap.. tap.. is this thing on?

Yup.

in BC, Canada. And I'm wondering who all is here. You can't be here
because this is the popular thing to do, right? I mean, we must be

Conversation is why I'm here. I find the old style BBS interface is much easier to discuss things in. No pictures, no videos, no distractions.

Similar reasons for me. I did use BBS's back when I was a teenager in the 90s, and rediscovered them in more recent years. Part nostalgia, and part because I do prefer the simpler, no distractions interface.

I do have to say, Usenet with a nice Terminal client is the best of both worlds (Editing text on a BBS is a bit awkward still), but I still enjoy playing around here.

I hope you are well. It's nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you too.

Shawn

... Predestination was doomed from the start.

Good to meet you both.

Hello BoraxMan,

On Sun Apr 13 2025 03:53 am CDT, you wrote:

Similar reasons for me. I did use BBS's back when I was a teenager in the 90s, and rediscovered them in more recent years. Part nostalgia, and part because I do prefer the simpler, no distractions interface.

Great to see you back!

I do have to say, Usenet with a nice Terminal client is the best of both worlds (Editing text on a BBS is a bit awkward still), but I still enjoy playing around here.

If wanting to access message bases via NNTP, you're more than welcome to connect to news.pharcyde.org with your favorite news client to access all of the message bases! I tend to enjoy slrn (Linux console NNTP client, which I think has a Windows port). Tin is also a nice client.

Give it a go, you might like it!

Regards,
Nick

... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."

Hello Accession,

On Sun Apr 13 2025 07:52 am CDT, you wrote:

Thats pretty cool (can't quite because syncterm has appropriated CTRL-Q for quitting.

I'll try the NNTP server now. I use SLRN as well.

On 2025-04-13, Accession <accession@pharcyde.org> wrote:

Hello BoraxMan,

On Sun Apr 13 2025 03:53 am CDT, you wrote:

Similar reasons for me. I did use BBS's back when I was a teenager in the
90s, and rediscovered them in more recent years. Part nostalgia, and part
because I do prefer the simpler, no distractions interface.

Great to see you back!

I do have to say, Usenet with a nice Terminal client is the best of both worlds (Editing text on a BBS is a bit awkward still), but I still enjoy playing around here.

If wanting to access message bases via NNTP, you're more than welcome to connect to news.pharcyde.org with your favorite news client to access all of the message bases! I tend to enjoy slrn (Linux console NNTP client, which I think has a Windows port). Tin is also a nice client.

Give it a go, you might like it!

Regards,
Nick

... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."

Ahh, this is nice. Posting from SLRN, and you have the other 'nets as well.

Awesome. Thanks mate!

Regards,
Borax Man

Hello BoraxMan,

On Fri Apr 18 2025 01:56 am CDT, you wrote:

Ahh, this is nice. Posting from SLRN, and you have the other 'nets as well.

slrn + nano is a great combination!

Awesome. Thanks mate!

Of course! That's what it's there for. :)

Regards,
Nick

... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."

Hello BoraxMan,

On Sun Apr 13 2025 03:53 am CDT, you wrote:

Similar reasons for me. I did use BBS's back when I was a teenager in the 90s, and rediscovered them in more recent years. Part nostalgia, and part because I do prefer the simpler, no distractions interface.

Same here. I was all about snail mail swapping in the 90s before I discovered Internet directly and I had some similar experience to BBS but already on shell based multi-user unix boxes + irc/email and usenet via `pine`.

I do have to say, Usenet with a nice Terminal client is the best of both worlds (Editing text on a BBS is a bit awkward still), but I still enjoy playing around here.

If you don't like direct terminal access then try downloading/uploading QWK files and use multimail application. That will give you a bit of that 'pine' experience and local archive for everything.

A bit like downloading usenet via modem then read offline, respond offline and just connect to upload responses kind of thing.

-h1