On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 17:12:04 -0700
Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 1/10/21 3:03 PM, James B DiGriz via cctalk wrote:
Fidonet echos.
I have a copy of a friend's BBS from back in the early 2000's.
I'm sure that there is a way to extract messages from the echos.
It's Synchronet if anyone wants to direct me how to extract things.
Synchronet is still very much "a thing". I'm not familiar with the
message base format it uses, and a lot will depend on the version you
have, but there should be utilities available for exporting
messages directly from a mounted disk image, or at least a running
instance. Should something be available on the Synchronet website or
Vertrauen BBS. There is a support echo still on Fidonet, too, iirc.
Worst case you can read messages to a capture log, or export .QWK to an
offline reader with any version since the early '90s.