Subj : Re: ISO: CommNET
To   : Gary McCulloch
From : Larry Anderson
Date : Tue Feb 09 2021 06:54 pm

On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 2:20:14 PM UTC-8, Gary McCulloch wrote:
> .-: On Tue 9-Feb-2021 5:37a, Larry Anderson@3:770/3.0 wrote :-. 
> LA: You mean the multi BBS-platform communication they did in the mid to 
> LA: late90s? I was a member of CommNet but I was running Image BBS not C-Net. 
> 
> Yes, that is the one. Did you have any docs or files for it? Even if 
> it was Image, it still could be usefull.

Not really, like I said it was mainly the hub boards that developed and had the code for it, they had like a custom protocol to be part of the other BBS network, then translate the posts into Image and then send it out and visa-versa.  So more or less 
they modified the other BBSs message transfer system to work on Image (or whatever BBS they were using) and then ran through the incoming and post it as if it game from another board in the local network.  If you can figure out the message structure and 
protocol of your BBS and then what you want to connect to its not too hard to work out (most of the message systems were very similar to each other).  Just takes a bit of work.

Back in the day there were hundreds of messages showing up weekly this screenshot https://portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=larry:comp:bbs:slrbar.gif was from the time note the number of total posts and responses, those were actual 
numbers.  (sigh unfortunately the BBS crashed in 1999 or so and lost the bulk of the old messages, not sure how many were on it when I shut down the board in 2004.)

All of the disks I have were for the image network, mainly stuff to better transfer posts/emails between other image BBSs; there was a two-way transfer one so one board could both send and recive updates on one call (before each BBS had to call each 
other to send), an archive component to pack up posts for smaller transfers, and there was going to be a distributed automatid BBS program update module but I don't think that was finished. 

I'm not setup to dig through the old commodore disks right now.

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