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   REPLYADDR larry@portcommodore.com   
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   On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 2:20:14 PM UTC-8, Gary McCulloch wrote:   
   > .-: On Tue 9-Feb-2021 5:37a, Larry Anderson@3:770/3.0 wrote :-.    
   > LA: You mean the multi BBS-platform communication they did in the mid to    
   > LA: late90s? I was a member of CommNet but I was running Image BBS not   
   C-Net.    
   >    
   > Yes, that is the one. Did you have any docs or files for it? Even if    
   > it was Image, it still could be usefull.   
      
   Not really, like I said it was mainly the hub boards that developed and had   
   the code for it, they had like a custom protocol to be part of the other BBS   
   network, then translate the posts into Image and then send it out and   
   visa-versa.  So more or less    
   they modified the other BBSs message transfer system to work on Image (or   
   whatever BBS they were using) and then ran through the incoming and post it as   
   if it game from another board in the local network.  If you can figure out the   
   message structure and    
   protocol of your BBS and then what you want to connect to its not too hard to   
   work out (most of the message systems were very similar to each other).  Just   
   takes a bit of work.   
      
   Back in the day there were hundreds of messages showing up weekly this   
   screenshot https://portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?   
   edia=larry:comp:bbs:slrbar.gif was from the time note the number of total   
   posts and responses, those were actual    
   numbers.  (sigh unfortunately the BBS crashed in 1999 or so and lost the bulk   
   of the old messages, not sure how many were on it when I shut down the board   
   in 2004.)   
      
   All of the disks I have were for the image network, mainly stuff to better   
   transfer posts/emails between other image BBSs; there was a two-way transfer   
   one so one board could both send and recive updates on one call (before each   
   BBS had to call each    
   other to send), an archive component to pack up posts for smaller transfers,   
   and there was going to be a distributed automatid BBS program update module   
   but I don't think that was finished.    
      
   I'm not setup to dig through the old commodore disks right now.   
      
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