[Air-l] folder and file names as direct speech

jeremy hunsinger jhuns at vt.edu
Sun Dec 12 14:21:26 PST 2004


I think it was called 'file transfer'  on most menus.
On Dec 12, 2004, at 4:41 PM, elijah wright wrote:

>
>>>>> sounds to me like you're talking about a melange of IRC DCC 
>>>>> Fserves and 0-day warez FTP sites.  which, or both, did you 
>>>>> intend?
>>>> I as thinking bbs's
>>> Fido and kin?
>>
>> dial-up, such as citadel, telegard, etc. 
>> http://bbsfiles.com/bbssoftware.html  and 
>> http://www.textfiles.com/directory.html
>
> do you happen to remember what the name of the bbs-to-bbs 
> [inter-fidonet-node] file transfer mechanism was?  i'm drawing a 
> blank, here.  i used to know this stuff :)
>
> citadel i disliked. i used lots of telegard, and then later renegade 
> and searchlight, and even later "wildcat", bbses.  we even wrote one, 
> at one point.  *embarassed*
>
> --elijah
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