Subj : Re: Modem Support
To   : Robert Wolfe
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Apr 19 2017 10:13 am

 -> is there not a tool that can answer an analog modem and convert the traffic

 -> telnet so that you can let them access your telnet BBS transparently?
etser

 -> or sexpots or similar?

 RW@> To date, I think only sexpots has that ability.

  I think you can also use either Argus, Taurus, or Radius as a frontend, with
the "dial-up-to-telnet" utility. Argus will answer the phone line, and then
hen
the caller presses <Esc> twice to load the BBS, dial-up-to-telnet takes over,
and telnets them right in.

  I used Argus with my setup several years ago when I had dial-up.
Unfortunately,
after construction crews working out here at the apartment complex sliced the
cables like a knife through butter (even though they were clearly marked), then
left the holes open, then heavy rain flooded the cables overnight...it was
worthless to try to get a voice call...never mind a fax or data call.

  I have a US Robotics 56k fax modem with the Classic Phone Tools software
under windows 7, but the line is VoIP, through "MagicJack Plus" (I have the
original "MagicJack" for voice mail. Each line costs just under $40 a year,
compared to well over $50 a month for a generic analog phone line...but, from
what I understand, those are being converted to digital or VoIP. If there was
a way I could have the modem take dial-up calls, I'd put Argus in on the 
frontend, as I used to do. It would require some reconfiguration over here,
but I don't know if a VoIP line for modem callers would work. There are still
some folks on dial-up internet, especially in rural areas of Arkansas.

Daryl

.... Darn it!! I forgot all about the Amnesia Conference!!
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