Re: Put your BBS back online with MagicJack?

["Don" <numberfiveplusone@gmail.com>]

"Steven Lichter" <diespammers@ikillspammers.com> wrote in message 
news:J6wUl.18064$%54.5399@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com...
> Don wrote:
>> "Steven Lichter" <diespammers@ikillspammers.com> wrote in message 
>> news:QLiUl.34311$ZP4.5146@nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com...
>>> Terry Olsen wrote:
>>>> Has anyone ever thought of running their old BBS just like they did in 
>>>> the heyday???  With actual Apple hardware, an analog modem, and a phone 
>>>> line? Now that MagicJack has come into existence, $40 to purchase, and 
>>>> $20 per year of service with free long distance, seems to me it would 
>>>> be entirely possible to have a bunch of Apple II bbs's to call once 
>>>> again.
>>>>
>>>> Sysops would not have to shell out a monthly payment for a 2nd phone 
>>>> line and users wouldn't have to worry about long distance phone charges 
>>>> to call. No-brainer, eh?
>>>>
>>>> So would there be any interest?  Are there any sysops who would 
>>>> consider running a BBS like this?  In the next month or so, I'll 
>>>> probably go buy a MagicJack, put mine online, and see what happens. 
>>>> Anyone else?
>>>
>>> You would need to run the Magic Jack with a PC or Intel Mac, I would 
>>> guess from there you could plug a modem into the phone jack then to your 
>>> Apple. I have a Magic Jack, but I have never tried a modem on it. There 
>>> might be problems since the system requires compression.  I know years 
>>> ago when Sprint has PC Pursuit it required special drivers to allow the 
>>> Apple BBS software t o run on it.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> The Only Good Spammer is a Dead one!! Have you hunted one down today? 
>>> (c) 2009  I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot In Hell Co.
>>
>> If you're going to end up using a PC in any case, there are a number of 
>> freeware TELNET-to-RS232 programs around that will let users TELNET to 
>> your BBS using your existing internet connection. This assumes, of 
>> course, that you've got some sort of "always-on" connection.
>>
>> I tired a couple of them several years back, but ended up going a 
>> different route using software specific to the system I was/am running 
>> (TBBS system on PC-DOS).  The only other issue you might have is your ISP 
>> blocking inbound port 23 connections, but the software that I tried 
>> allowed you to select other ports so you can work around that one.
>>
>> I've just looked through my HD and I can't find any links to the stuff I 
>> tried, but some enterprising Google-ing may come up with something.  I 
>> seem to recall that the guy who had written it was using it to run a BBS 
>> on a C64, but it worked fine with other modem-based BBS's.
>
> >
>
> If  you are using DSL, then each time you boot your system tou will have a 
> defferent IP address.  The  port problem as  you said can be worked 
> around.
>
> I still have my old data line since it only costs a couple of dollars as a 
> bundled second line, so that would be no problem.  My problems is no time 
> as well as  the last time it was up I had no calls for weeks at a time.
>
> -- 
> The Only Good Spammer is a Dead one!! Have you hunted one down today? (c) 
> 2009  I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot In Hell Co.

You're right about the moving IP ... I'd forgotten about that because my ISP 
provides me with DSL and a static IP.  I've had people tell me that they've 
had success with services like DynDNS to keep a DHCP IP address linked to a 
domain.

-- 
be seeing you ... Don
Don Melton, Sr. Consultant, Vatic Technologies Limited