Should I re-open my telnet BBS?

[Duce]

I would love to see another Amiga based BBS up and running.

For those interested, the Amiga version of Binkd (coded by XRay/Rudi - an active A.org member, and swell guy) works pretty nice for pulling in FTN's via the internet.  Should be on Aminet.

I've got an Amiga BBS running on a SAM 440ep at the moment, using Zeus BBS.

I won't bull**** you, if you throw it online, it's not gonna be 1991 over again numbers wise, in callers.  

Callers may only call a few times a day as a whole, but the ones that do, they really, really get a kick of "going back in time" when logging onto a well designed BBS.  You can't believe the number of people that abandoned BBS's 20 years ago that still logon to Amiga BBS's just to play silly doorgames like Hack and Slash, hehe.  For the most part each and every one of them will tell you "Thanks!" for providing a good BBS, making it wholly worthwhile.

DLG BB/OS is now open sourced, and Excelsior! BBS is free as well.  E! includes a Trapdoor key I believe, and DLG has full source code (C) available on Aminet.

Holler if you need a hand - there's actually quite a resurgence in the number of Amiga BBS's coming back online.  As all old Amiga BBS sysops know, the Miggy ran a BBS better than any other machine that ever existed

[Duce]

I recommend SyncTerm as well on the PC side.  It's rock solid, supports all graphics standards (ASCII, ANSI, RIPScriptm among others), and handles X/Y/ZModem transfers just great.  It's about the best BBS specific term program on the PC side, handles telnet and SSH just fine.

Putty is a close second, and in all reality, is a far more powerful piece of kit - it's just that SyncTerm is more geared to a BBS user.  Putty is a great all in one, but for BBS usage solely, I find SyncTerm real nice and Putty to be a bit overkill.

On the Amiga side, any term program with a proper telnet style .device should work, or use a dedicated Telnet client.  I honestly couldn't tell you what the best Amiga comms/telnet proggie is these days, I mostly use a PC to connect to my own Amiga operated BBS unless I'm at the console/BBS machine itself.

[Duce]

I've been mirroring quite a bit of Aminet to my BBS for quite a few years - pretty easy to do.

I mainly only keep up on the comm dir lately, which admittedly doesn't see much traffic, all done with a simple script.