Where is this communication coming from?

​How are these messages coming from?
by: cr1mson@phatstar.org
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There's something special about telecommunications.  We live in a world now
that more and more people communicate through a device such as a phone or
computer and such.  I feel we express more thoroughly when we communicate
this.  We're not distracted by facial expressions, uncertain words that may
be missed if we don't read it for ourselves.

But how are these messages transferred from one system to another?  One way
is using a FTN.  I don't mean free the nipple. <lolz>  I mean a network
with sending/receiving files from one system to another, spread from a hub,
or a main system, threaded down like a spider web to other systems then
routed back to the hub and so on.

This type of system has to be on-line to keep communication going and these
message packets (files) have to transferred continually, usually within
fifteen to and hour at a time, depending on how each system is setup.

Here we come to binkP, an internet protocol used by Bulletin Board Systems.
We've lightly covered what a BBS is and what it's used for.  One of the
most effective ways is through message networks (or FTNs).

binkP is commonly used with software such as Mystic or Synchronet, either
using BinkD (Linux, Windows(tm) and operating systems) or other software
such as Radius (Windows).  There's a variety out there.  If you run your
own BBS or plan to, it's good to prepare to allow binkP traffic running
through your system.

A message packet is encrypted using file compression to make the file of
a smaller size, copied to other systems then uncompressed and processed by
the mail tosser.  A mail tosser takes this information and translates it
to "post" messages on every system that is correctly setup with this
service.

People love to communicate either verbally, on the phone, the internet or
otherwise.  Get into checking out what's out there and what's available.
It'd be great to get involved with the BBS Scene (community) and help it
grow.  Although BBSes weren't as popular before the explosion of the
internet, we're still around and plan to be for quite awhile longer.  It's
up to us to keep telecommunication going.  Do your part and get involved
today!

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