Subj : SyncTERM website...
To   : Dumas Walker
From : MRO
Date : Mon Dec 18 2023 08:15 am

 Re: SyncTERM website...
 By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sun Dec 17 2023 10:57 am

> >> There are a few boards that do get a lot of traffic, although not full
> >> capacity and maybe mostly other sysops.  Maybe they are more l33t than
> most >> of us.  :D  More power to them, though.  Whatever is working for
> them, I
> >> wouldn't discourage.
> >>
> > i will say the asian bbses are still going strong.
>
> Yeah, in the past few years there was discussion of one in Taiwan that is
> very active, and about the software that powers it.  I was curious so I
> tried to check it out but it is very much all in Chinese. ;)
>
> Back in the day, a network I was on (GT Power) had several nodes in Taiwan,
> but they also mostly participated amongst themselves.  The only time you
> really realized they were around was when some of the users would post in
> the equivalent of the FIDO Asia Link echo.
>
>

I used to just poke around on one of the popular ones but dude put in a kind of capcha thing.  I think you have to visit a website and enter the code.  i can't remember, it was a few years ago. Also i could barely make out what they were saying.  I can make out some norwegian and german but taiwanese is beyond my abilities.
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