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Created 2022-08-09
I decided to make my BBS live. It's not perfect, but it'll do for now. So feel free to try it out:
telnet tozip.chickenkiller.com 2039
It'd be nice to put a game on it, but I haven't figured out what. It does feature a gopher client that links to my own site, however. My gopher server is actually a bridge from gemini pages. There is also a random gopherhole feature. There is also a fortune cookie and a couple of other goodies.
The BBS uses UTF-8 encoding. Don't use syncterm, which will give rubbish output. I figured that since everyone has telnet, it was a good option.
I coughed up for an arpa licence on sdf, so that I have a remote unix account to test things on. Access worked fine, so I'm not expecting many problems.
I quite like the "inktwo" BBS, which was apparently under attack from the Chinese recently. It has to be said, the Chinese don't exactly endear themselves in the eyes of the West.
Have fun. Don't be evil.