On Sun, 2008-10-05 22:33:10 Sampsa Laine wrote: On 6 Oct 2008, at 02:07, Fred wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Dan Williams wrote: Speaking of interesting - I saw somewhere once where there was a BBS program written (not NOTES) for OpenVMS and I could have swore it was MBSE. A little googling revealed that MBSE is Linux only, and I would much rather set up an OpenVMS BBS anyway - I'm an amateur radio operator and would love to put my Alpha on packet. Does anyone know or has ever seen such an animal? Fred So, weren't BBS's mostly text-based communications fora accessed via direct dial-up to a modem bank attached to the BBS host? and haven't those mostly these days been superseded by Wikis that are accessed over TCP/IP typically via http? Or is it your goal to gateway AX.25/TNC protocols over to HECnet? Now that would be new. I can see it now, HECnet links over AX.25 radio links. I can see it now, AX.25 links over HECnet internets. An Alpha running VMS as a TNC BBS? Dude! You'd be the envy of all your ham buddies! Go for it! Aloha, Angela -- "(I'll) Be Seeing You..." All information and transactions are private between the parties, and are non negotiable. All rights reserve without prejudice, Angela Kahealani. http://kahealani.com