And of course if you just need the client to connect the telnet bbs'es you could use real telnet clients without needing this telser step.
AmTelnet should work quite well and especially DCTelnet is made for telnetting bbs:
http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/DCTelnet_16But if you want to run your own bbs, then telser or telnetd is needed.
