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    From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Wed Nov 18 15:17:58 2020
    Hey team

    Nu will be able to speak to this better than I but there's a nice chap on Reddit who is offering some BBS a chance to have their Internet based systems connected to service that links them to a bunch of (mostly) USA based phone numbers.

    Callers can use a modem to dial up your BBS, then pass this system a
    name/login which in turn links the modem to your Internet based Telnet etc. server.

    The hardware he's using can be found here - https://bit.ly/3kInvel

    The thread explaining how it's set up is here - https://bit.ly/32Qn2Av

    And the thread asking for BBS to submit interest to join up can be found at https://bit.ly/3nyOg6J

    Best, Paul

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Avon on Tue Nov 17 19:20:32 2020
    Hey team
    Nu will be able to speak to this better than I but there's a nice chap on Reddit who is offering some BBS a chance to have their Internet based systemsconnected to service that links them to a bunch of (mostly) USA based phonenumbers.
    Callers can use a modem to dial up your BBS, then pass this system a name/login which in turn links the modem to your Internet based Telnet etc.server.
    The hardware he's using can be found here - https://bit.ly/3kInvel
    The thread explaining how it's set up is here - https://bit.ly/32Qn2Av
    And the thread asking for BBS to submit interest to join up can be found athttps://bit.ly/3nyOg6J
    Best, Paul

    I saw this earlier today, and put my infos in... the project is really cool, and worth learning about; let alone signing up for! I did a little of both, and really wanted to keep those links going and archived for me. :P Thanks for posting, and this looks really cool for current BBSes - like 10-15 US #s, too... its rad.



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  • From Joacim Melin@21:2/130 to Avon on Wed Nov 18 19:13:46 2020
    Hey team

    Nu will be able to speak to this better than I but there's a nice chap
    on
    Reddit who is offering some BBS a chance to have their Internet based systems
    connected to service that links them to a bunch of (mostly) USA based
    phone
    numbers.

    Callers can use a modem to dial up your BBS, then pass this system a name/login which in turn links the modem to your Internet based Telnet
    etc.
    server.

    The hardware he's using can be found here - https://bit.ly/3kInvel

    The thread explaining how it's set up is here - https://bit.ly/32Qn2Av

    And the thread asking for BBS to submit interest to join up can be
    found at
    https://bit.ly/3nyOg6J

    Best, Paul

    There was someone on Fight-O-Net going on about a similar solution a couple of years ago who wanted me to participate back when I still had a modem connected to my BBS computer, a Amiga 2000. I chose not to, mostly because I didn't want to have the responsibility to carry traffic to BBS:es belonging to others but also because I wanted my modem to be available for my users. Of course no-one ever called to I took it down eventually.


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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to All on Thu Nov 26 18:20:00 2020
    Regarding the earlier thread, the reddit post mentions several numbers.
    In particular, it mentions the following:

    NPSTN, 785-1012

    What is NPSTN? I looked it up on the internet and it sounds like it is a private VoIP network. Since it does not include an area code (or county
    code), how do you call it from outside of the private network?

    I tried calling it just now, without an area code, and got a voice
    recording that thanked me for my call but did not actually tell me who I
    had called. Then it started ringing, so of course I hung up. :)

    #

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