Wondering if a local community could use a BBS to communicate vs instant communications. Having to wait for messages and replies (even if just a local message board), could be a new fad? I need an iOS QWK Reader ...

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Wondering if a local community could use a BBS to communicate vs instant communications. Having to wait for messages and replies (even if just a local message board), could be a new fad?

Sysnchronet is the only BBS I know of that has an instant message feature.

I've used it on a few occastions.

I need an iOS QWK Reader ...

I am not an iOS user but there is none that I know of. If dosbox is available on iOS that would be a good place to start. You'll need pkzip/pkunzip or zip/unzip also at least.

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Wondering if a local community could use a BBS to communicate vs instant communications. Having to wait for messages and replies (even if just a local message board), could be a new fad? I need an iOS QWK Reader ...

Maybe. Back when I was younger, and before dial-up BBSes had took off, the cable system in Owensboro, KY, had a channel that was called the bulletin board. Normally, if you turned it on, it gave the time, temperature, wind speed and direction, etc., on one screen. If there was something going on, that screen would be replaced, IIRC, with a the bulletin.

A local AM station played in the background.

This was even before the Weather Channel so, as a youngster, I thought that channel was really neat. :)

When I first started calling BBSes, there were local "communities" that had their own and that did use them for communicating to members, but these
were more likely to be a club (like the local Astronomical Society) or
other oranization (like the local free public library system). State government also had one, but it was an in-state long-distance call to me at
the time & I don't remember now what kind of bulletin info they may have posted.

As for an iOS QWK reader, you might try asking in one of the more technical echos, or on FSX or TQN networks, if you have access to those. In past
there have been discussions about reading BBS messages on a phone,
including IIRC some about running a point system.

Mike

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Nate Mcmullin wrote to Hello! <=-

Wondering if a local community could use a BBS to communicate vs
instant communications. Having to wait for messages and replies (even
if just a local message board), could be a new fad? I need an iOS QWK Reader ...

There are BBS-specific IRC servers out there (irc.synchro.net is one,
primarily focused on Synchronet support) and MRC, a BBS-hosted
real-time chat network that resembles IRC but it more BBS-focused and
centralized than IRC.



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Hello Nate Mcmullin!

** On Monday 31.07.23 - 22:45, Nate Mcmullin wrote to Hello!:

Wondering if a local community could use a BBS to
communicate vs instant communications. Having to wait for
messages and replies (even if just a local message board),
could be a new fad? I need an iOS QWK Reader ...

Unless your "community" is willing to consistently use a
desktop or a laptop for comms, I doubt that usage would be a
success.

Today, the primary tool to communicate are smartphones.
Personally, I think Briar or Simplex would be a more practical
solution for a community "board". With a consistent naming
approach, the message areas can be set up to look like part of
a unified "bbs".

The one cool feature with Briar is that it can utilize BT
netwworking, or Wi-fi, or the internet for broadcasting
messages to member devices.

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