The Telnet/Dial-Up BBS Guide - November 2020
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Our 23rd Anniversary!

Welcome to the November 2020 edition of the
Telnet BBS Guide! This is our 23rd anniversary
edition. Not the 23rd edition of the guide, our
23rd YEAR of the guide! (Which when you add it
all up, this is edition number 276!)

Speaking of which, I've decided to include a PDF
of our FIRST edition of the Telnet BBS Guide from
November 1997! Fun to look at, but don't try to
access any of those systems, as I think all of
them are no longer around. 

Time to Go? Maybe soon? 

Speaking of anniversaries and such, I'm still debating
when the actual last edition of the Telnet BBS Guide
will be. We're obviously in a much better place than
in 1997. Back then, we wondered if BBSing would 
survive the transition to the Internet. I think we
have come a long ways in the last 23 years. And safe
to say, BBSing is here to stay and grow. The main reason
for starting the Telnet BBS Guide (and continuing on
what Richard Scott Mark did prior with his Select
BBSes on the Internet) was to help foster BBSing
into the Internet era. I think that mission has
been accomplished and then some. So I'm still
wondering when that time will be when I decide to
pass the baton on. Maybe the end of the year, still
not 100% sure. But I'll let you all know here. 
Thanks!

Distro List for Telnet BBS Guide moved to Groups.io

As of February 2019, the monthly distribution list
of the Telnet BBS Guide has moved to Groups.io. If
you wish to subscribe to the new mailing list, please
sign up at the following location:

https://groups.io/g/telnetbbsguide/

Please note that if you subscribed to to the old 
Yahoo group, your subscription will NOT carry over
to the new list. You must sign up on the new site
in order to continue to receive the monthly
distribution of the list.

MagiTerm SSH client:

As time marches forward, we are becoming more and more
security conscious. We are moving away from insecure
protocols such as Telnet and moving on to Secure
Shell or SSH. Though many BBSes aren't able to move
to SSH, we are now trying to make accessing those
who are SSH capable easier.

Starting with the July 2018 issue, we are including a
file called "magiterm.txt" in both the monthly and
daily text file downloads. This is a dialing directory
that can be used with a new program called MagiTerm
that is an ANSI capable SSH client for both Windows
and Linux. Our "under the engine" developer Vincent
has updated the site to produce this file and
include it in the text file downloads.

If you wish to try MagiTerm, the web site is:

https://magickabbs.com/index.php/tools/magiterm

I won't include the file here as I already have
a Telnet based client as part of the usual ZIP file
download.

If you have questions, please let us know. Thanks!

Notes for BBS Sysops:

We are aware that some of you are moving your BBSes to a non-
standard port from the default telnet port number (23). If you
do move to a non-standard port, please either update your listing
or let us know and we'll update your listing for you. Remember,
we do verify your BBS listing several times a month. If it is not in
operation, we will mark it down. We will wait for 30 days.
If it's still down, we will delete it from the database. So,
please keep your listing updated if you do indeed make
any address changes. Thanks!

And of course, if your listing is already there, please "claim"
your listing. Add an account and then claim it. I will allow you
to edit your own listing. DO NOT create a new listing if your
BBS already exists. That makes more work for me!

Finally, when you sign up as a new user to either add or edit
your BBS listing, please enter your first or last name in the
signup information. Otherwise your listing may not be accepted.
Thanks!

Thanks, and continue to enjoy the ride!

- Dave

The Telnet BBS Guide
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http://www.bbscorner.com

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Facebook Discussion Group
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Diamond Mine Online BBS
http://www.dmine.com (info) & http://www.dmine.net (BBS access)
telnet://bbs.dmine.net:24

