Here's what I don't understand. Oh look, here's my new bbs, let's add it to the telnet bbs guide. Oh wait, we don't accept new users.

What the fuck is the point then?

... My mind isn't always in the gutter - sometimes it comes out to feed.

--- Renegade v1.35/DOS
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Here's what I don't understand. Oh look, here's my new bbs, let's
add it to the telnet bbs guide. Oh wait, we don't accept new users.

What the fuck is the point then?

HAHA! Their so elite!

... Great minds think alike; small minds run together

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Linux/64)
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Here's what I don't understand. Oh look, here's my new bbs, let's add it to the telnet bbs guide. Oh wait, we don't accept new users.

What the fuck is the point then?

HAHA! Their so elite!

ahaha I guess. I just don't get it.

... Cheer Up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.

--- Renegade v1.35/DOS
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on 07 Dec 2025, Exodus said...

Here's what I don't understand. Oh look, here's my new bbs, let's
add it to the telnet bbs guide. Oh wait, we don't accept new users.

What the fuck is the point then?

They just want us all to know what we're collectively missing out on... which is probably a stock BBS with some old Night Owl CDROMs in their file conferences and a few of the same old message networks and door games everyone else has. Oh noes! ;)

|07j |15A C K |07p |15H L A S H |07!
|08[https://jackphla.sh]

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)
* Origin: d i s t o r t i o n // d1st.org (911:1423/0)

What the fuck is the point then?

They just want us all to know what we're collectively missing out on... wh is probably a stock BBS with some old Night Owl CDROMs in their file conferences and a few of the same old message networks and door games ever else has. Oh noes! ;)

Probably. Man, it just strikes a nerve for me tho. :)

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Here's what I don't understand. Oh look, here's my new bbs, let's add
it to the telnet bbs guide. Oh wait, we don't accept new users.

What the fuck is the point then?

What? Since when? That's pretty weird, I thought it was open to all. I did add my board 3 years ago, though so I haven't checked recently. Have you contacted Diamond Dave?

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What the fuck is the point then?

What? Since when? That's pretty weird, I thought it was open to all. I d add my board 3 years ago, though so I haven't checked recently. Have you contacted Diamond Dave?

No, I assume Dave checked these himself. This was like the 5th one in the last few months.

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On 09 Dec 2025, Shurato said the following...

Here's what I don't understand. Oh look, here's my new bbs, let's ad it to the telnet bbs guide. Oh wait, we don't accept new users.

What the fuck is the point then?

What? Since when? That's pretty weird, I thought it was open to all.
I did add my board 3 years ago, though so I haven't checked recently. Have you contacted Diamond Dave?

He meant someone added a BBS to telnetbbsguide.com but set their BBS to "closed", which would defeat the purpose of adding it to a site that advertises you have a BBS up.

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Here's what I don't understand. Oh look, here's my new bbs, let's
add it to the telnet bbs guide. Oh wait, we don't accept new users.

What the fuck is the point then?

I don't think I jumped into this convo late, but... what are we talking about?

Telnet BBS Guide doesn't allow new bbSes to be added?
New, stock even, bbSes don't allow new users???



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|08.........

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
* Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbS>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (911:1503/0)

I don't think I jumped into this convo late, but... what are we talking abo

Telnet BBS Guide doesn't allow new bbSes to be added?
New, stock even, bbSes don't allow new users???

No, there are new boards listed on telnet guide that are CLOSED to new users. So what is the point of posting the bbs is there?

... Insert New Disk for Drive C: Press ENTER when ready.

--- Renegade v1.35/DOS
* Origin: The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info (911:1724/0)

Here's what I don't understand. Oh look, here's my new bbs, let's add
it
to the telnet bbs guide. Oh wait, we don't accept new users.

What the fuck is the point then?

My bbs was added without me doing anything. So there is that.

|03--|11[|05esc|13!|05dEMONIC|11]|03--|07

--- DayDream BBS/UNIX (Linux) 2.15a
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* In a message originally to Shurato, maskreet said:

On 09 Dec 2025, Shurato said the following...

Here's what I don't understand. Oh look, here's my new bbs,

let's ad

it to the telnet bbs guide. Oh wait, we don't accept new users.

What the fuck is the point then?

What? Since when? That's pretty weird, I thought it was open to

all.

I did add my board 3 years ago, though so I haven't checked recently.

Have you contacted Diamond Dave?

He meant someone added a BBS to telnetbbsguide.com but set their BBS to "closed", which would defeat the purpose of adding it to a site that advertises you have a BBS up.

Oh, thanks for the clarification! Though telnetbbsguide.com wasn't accepting new BBSes! That would be really weird.

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Here's what I don't understand. Oh look, here's my new bbs, let's add it
to the telnet bbs guide. Oh wait, we don't accept new users.

What the fuck is the point then?

My bbs was added without me doing anything. So there is that.

Thats what I noticed... not sure if someONE has to first tell the guide about a bbS, but it does 'call' them to verify they're still active for listings; thats cool.

Wonder if they scan the wider internet for TELNET addys??? Hmmmm.



|07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
|08.........

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
* Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbS>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (911:1503/0)

on 10 Dec 2025, paulie420 said...

Wonder if they scan the wider internet for TELNET addys??? Hmmmm.

I recall there was a similar site that popped up a few years ago that was doing discovery scans. I think it might have been 8bitboyz.com/bbs-directory?

I wondered how they cut through the vaaaaaaast majority of results that were garbage or otherwise unrelated - perhaps hand curated, or maybe the scans were just for verification of an inventory seeded from another site like telnetbbsguide.com *shrug*

|07j |15A C K |07p |15H L A S H |07!
|08[https://jackphla.sh]

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)
* Origin: d i s t o r t i o n // d1st.org (911:1423/0)

Wonder if they scan the wider internet for TELNET addys??? Hmmmm.

I recall there was a similar site that popped up a few years ago that
was doing discovery scans. I think it might have been 8bitboyz.com/bbs-directory?

I think I remember that, too... yea - 8bit Boyz.

I wondered how they cut through the vaaaaaaast majority of results that were garbage or otherwise unrelated - perhaps hand curated, or maybe the scans were just for verification of an inventory seeded from another
site like telnetbbsguide.com *shrug*

... I can't imagine that they scan the entirety of the interwebs, TELNET sites - but I guess I scrape the w0rld, too. :P



|07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
|08.........

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
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Re: Re: New BBS's on bbs telnet guide
By: paulie420 to esc on Wed Dec 10 2025 05:21 pm

My bbs was added without me doing anything. So there is that.

Thats what I noticed... not sure if someONE has to first tell the guide about a bbS, but it does 'call' them to verify they're still active for listings; thats cool.

Wonder if they scan the wider internet for TELNET addys??? Hmmmm.

It has to be scraping other sources for info, possibly such as the sbbslist (https://synchro.net/sbbslist.html), which updates daily with any new SBBS systems that get set up and have the sbbslist export event enabled (which seems to be on by default).

I believe this is the biggest reason why SBBS earns its reputation for having so many stock boards. By the time the sysop has learned how to customize it, it's too late - everyone has already seen their default "Synchronet" logon page
plop on top of the Telnet BBS Guide's list of "new" BBSes, and no one ever visits any of those.

|15 ■ ∙ · codefenix · ∙ · ConstructiveChaos BBS · · ∙ ■ ■
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jack phlash wrote to Exodus <=-

They just want us all to know what we're collectively missing out on... which is probably a stock BBS with some old Night Owl CDROMs in their
file conferences and a few of the same old message networks and door
games everyone else has. Oh noes! ;)

Back in the day, one of the 1337 BBSes had that exact BBS up and
running - go to the door menu and select some obscure option and you'd
drop into the *real* BBS. very cool, indeed.



--- MultiMail/Win v0.52
* Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (911:1415/0)

which is probably a stock BBS with some old Night Owl CDROMs in their file conferences and a few of the same old message networks and door games everyone else has. Oh noes! ;)

Back in the day, one of the 1337 BBSes had that exact BBS up and
running - go to the door menu and select some obscure option and you'd
drop into the *real* BBS. very cool, indeed.

If only you could get TO the fake BBS on these ... <G>

... I'm out of bed and dressed. What more do you want?

--- Renegade v1.35/DOS
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on 11 Dec 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said...

Back in the day, one of the 1337 BBSes had that exact BBS up and
running - go to the door menu and select some obscure option and you'd
drop into the *real* BBS. very cool, indeed.

Oh yeah, we had one like that IIRC. A more popular choice in my local scene was to run "FrontPorch" for FrontDoor, and have an open public board as one option and a private 1337 board as another.

|07j |15A C K |07p |15H L A S H |07!
|08[https://jackphla.sh]

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)
* Origin: d i s t o r t i o n // d1st.org (911:1423/0)

My bbs was added without me doing anything. So there is that.

Thats what I noticed... not sure if someONE has to first tell the gui about a bbS, but it does 'call' them to verify they're still active f listings; thats cool.
Wonder if they scan the wider internet for TELNET addys??? Hmmmm.

It has to be scraping other sources for info, possibly such as the sbbslist (https://synchro.net/sbbslist.html), which updates daily with
any new SBBS systems that get set up and have the sbbslist export event enabled (which seems to be on by default).

Good point. IMO, sbbs is the very best BBS software available in 2o25 - if I could do it all over again, I'd use Sync - but I'd HEAVILY modify it... at this point, I've completely changed EVERYTHING @ 2oFB - and in hindsight it would have been better to use sbbs...

But yea; lots of 'sysops' just playing around get added to the list. Meh.



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Re: Re: New BBS's on bbs telnet guide
By: paulie420 to esc on Wed Dec 10 2025 05:21 pm

My bbs was added without me doing anything. So there is that.

Thats what I noticed... not sure if someONE has to first tell the

guide

about a bbS, but it does 'call' them to verify they're still active

for

listings; thats cool.

Wonder if they scan the wider internet for TELNET addys??? Hmmmm.

It has to be scraping other sources for info, possibly such as the sbbslist (https://synchro.net/sbbslist.html), which updates daily with any new SBBS systems that get set up and have the sbbslist export event enabled (which seems to be on by default).

I believe this is the biggest reason why SBBS earns its reputation for having so many stock boards. By the time the sysop has learned how to customize it, it's too late - everyone has already seen their default "Synchronet" logon page plop on top of the Telnet BBS Guide's list
of "new" BBSes, and no one ever visits any of those.

Once I get my new SFF PC and move my game servers to a Mini PC, I'm planning
on installing an instance of SBBS as a game server. What do I need to do to make sure it stays private?

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Re: Re: New BBS's on bbs telnet guide
By: Shurato to Codefenix on Thu Dec 11 2025 09:31 pm

Once I get my new SFF PC and move my game servers to a Mini PC, I'm planning on installing an instance of SBBS as a game server. What do I need to do to make sure it stays private?

Go info SCFG (the editor) and go to External Programs, select Timed Events, and find the event for ?sbbslist export. The name of the event on mine is "SBL2SMB". This is the event that exports your BBS info to DOVE-Net's Synchronet data echo. If you don't want your data exported until you're ready, go into this event and set Enabled to No.

Worth mentioning that the sbbslist export stuff I described in my last post *does* require having your board connected to DOVE-Net in order for your data to be exported to the network in the first place. But disabling this event is still a good safety net; ensures nothing is being sent out without your say so.

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Hey paulie420!

On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:12:54 -0800, you wrote:

Good point. IMO, sbbs is the very best BBS software available in 2o25 -
if I could do it all over again, I'd use Sync - but I'd HEAVILY modify
it... at this point, I've completely changed EVERYTHING @ 2oFB - and in hindsight it would have been better to use sbbs...

No worries. I did it instead, so you can stick with Mystic. :D

Regards,
Nick

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--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20250409
* Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (911:1262/1)

jack phlash wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Oh yeah, we had one like that IIRC. A more popular choice in my local scene was to run "FrontPorch" for FrontDoor, and have an open public
board as one option and a private 1337 board as another.

I never heard of that, sounds easy! I suppose you'd hit esc 3 times for
the 1337 BBS and twice for the vanilla BBS, or something like that.



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Here's what I don't understand. Oh look, here's my new bbs, let's
add it to the telnet bbs guide. Oh wait, we don't accept new users.

What the fuck is the point then?

Part of the fun is typing a ridiculously long address into your Netrunner phonebook, getting the port number right, just to find out it was a piece of shit bbs ;)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)
* Origin: d i s t o r t i o n // d1st.org (911:1423/0)

on 13 Dec 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said...

I never heard of that, sounds easy! I suppose you'd hit esc 3 times for the 1337 BBS and twice for the vanilla BBS, or something like that.

It basically just put a little lightbar menu before loading your BBS (after the traditional FrontDoor double escape) to let you run multiple boards on the same system. Several SysOps used it in my AC, but every time I mention it (almost) no one else has ever heard of it - I guess its another one of the innumerable examples of how localized things could be back then.

|07j |15A C K |07p |15H L A S H |07!
|08[https://jackphla.sh]

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)
* Origin: d i s t o r t i o n // d1st.org (911:1423/0)

It basically just put a little lightbar menu before loading your BBS (afte the traditional FrontDoor double escape) to let you run multiple boards on same system. Several SysOps used it in my AC, but every time I mention it (almost) no one else has ever heard of it - I guess its another one of the

I used it once or twice in 1994 ... when I was playing around with different software. I SHOULD have the file in my file bases if anyone wants to take a look.

... They say act your age, and when you do they get mad.

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