Subj : Re: BBSing opportunties
To   : Atreyu
From : Avon
Date : Sun Dec 19 2021 02:49 pm

On 18 Dec 2021 at 07:12p, Atreyu pondered and said...
 
 At> With many people now re-evaulating social media's place in their lives,
 At> it  would be a perfect chance to turn these people to BBS'ing and
 At> message nets but the learning curve is just too much. Only "techie"
 At> people would care to jump  through all kinds of hoops to get something
 At> running.

My concern is around how to build communications resilience. When we look back at the way POTS modems and calls over landlines worked, yep the time to get a message from A to B and a reply back was longer. But I wonder if the overall resilience of the communication was better?

Now that we rely on the Internet to be the bridge between nodes and the backbone of FTN style networks (and many other networks) I fear we have lost a lot of the means to be resilient should a bad actor(s) come along and hobble a city or country by taking down its Internet connectivity. :(

How best to get packets around a country or between countries without an Internet to carry them? <-- open question for anyone really...

Best, Paul

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