Subj : network call out
To : Evan Elias
From : Rocko
Date : Thu Feb 21 2002 05:10 am
RE: network call out
BY: Evan Elias to Rocko on Thu Feb 21 2002 10:54 am
> There were about 300+ boards in my general area (philadelphia + northern
> suburbs), and I'd say 90% of them ran either WWIV or WildCat. I never
Oh man, I'd be lucky if there were 10 in my area at a given time.
> for countless other popular ones like Virtual Advanced, PCBoard, TeleGard, e
> To this day I *still* have yet to ever call a BBS running ProBoard, SpitFire
> Searchlight, TriBBS, GAP, and many others... absolutely no one ran them in m
> area, which seems so strange now.
When I wrote "theBBS" earliery, I meant "TriBBS." I found it had a unique
interface. Whether it was any good is another story. All the kiddies ran
Renegade in my area. However, we did have a bit of a spread:
Searchlight - Ran by a guy that eventually had a sex change operation and moved
to Montana.
Synchronet - Was up for two years or so. Didn't have much interesting content.
PCBoard - Had a VGA Planets thing. Run by a biker dude.
Maximus - One system run by a woman in Kingston, NY. The other was run by a
hippy-turned-technician in Woodstock. The latter was my favorite since it was
the most technical-oriented.
Proboard - Run by a grumpy old man, so we think from some of the intolerance he
showed.
Wilcat! - as previously mentioned
Remote Access - strange interfacing. Too many games and not enough users to
populate them.
The rest were Renegade. They have some stories to them too, but not as
interesting as the guy turned girl. ;)
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