[Coco] Closing BBS

[Robert Hermanek]

It's great that you were hosting a BBS in this day and age, I have a lot 
of good memories of dialing phone numbers and getting busy signals.  I 
was throwing around the idea, a year or so ago, of hosting my own BBS 
for absolutely no reason other than I could.  But to keep costs down, I 
wanted to use VoIP lines instead of land lines.  I thought (at the time) 
that at 2400 baud, maybe a voip line would work.  Well, I never did get 
a voip line to work, not even at 300bps.  If you were able to make VoIP 
work, I'd be very interested in how you did it, if you're willing to 
share -- feel free to email me directly if that's the case.  And of 
course, if anyone else on this list is a VoIP wizard...

Thanks,
-RobertH

On 12/23/2014 12:22 PM, Bill wrote:
> Since I have nothing to offer Cocoists anything other than a dozen or so
> other sites, and since my BBS activity is down to 6 callers this year, it is
> with regret that I have decided to close *Square One Family BBS. The expense
> to keep it running is actually nothing (only about $50 a year), but keeping
> an OLD computer running 24/7 is somewhat of a chore.
>
> I will be keeping an eye on the mailing list and maybe asking a dumb
> question now and again, but I think BBSs are pretty much finished.
>
> Thanks
>
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