8 Feb
2002
8 Feb
'02
3:11 a.m.
Christopher Smith wrote:
On a slightly different topic, has anyone thought
about doing
something similar to a BBS, but on a larger scale? A UUCP network,
for instance? Not as large or full of garbage as the internet these
days, but not as local as a BBS...
I think about this a lot sometimes. Mostly when I am again deeply
frustrated about the behaviour of certain morons on the Internet. What I
would like to do is what some people call a guerilla net, a WLAN that
connects like-minded people to form a community seperate from the Internet.
But using existing Internet connections would be better for obvious reasons
(price, availability, bridging huge distances etc.). The problem with
testing a program/configuration/installation of such a service is not
within my capacity, I would need access to a server with a reasonably fast
connection which is, more important, online 24/7.
Thomas
PS: One thing might be to write a simple server which sort of simulates the
behaviour of a BBS. You could even do this in a scripting language like
Perl or Python to have support for scripts built-in. and so on and so on.
--
Thomas S. Strathmann http://pdp7.org
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin