Hello, godlike fellow William figure! I was wondering whatever happened to that old BBS the Beeline. It went offline and never seemed to come back; was there ever a project to ressurect it in telnet form? To put old thingies from the Beeline online? Etc etc etc! You help would be immensely appreciated.

-- William Jefferson Jimminy (orbit@nirvana.net), January 20, 1999

Answers

The project was begun, but funding never put it online.

As is, most of the software is ready; in perpetual beta as is appropriate, new users can be added, chat works, vapors work, funkies work, kiwis work, etc. We need a friendly linux/x86 server with a static IP address to hang it on. At the moment, I can't afford to turn any of my machines into that (at several hundred dollars per month; I'm a poor kid who works at a grocery store).

If we have enough investor type people who are responsible and want to be SubOps, we'd need roughly $1000 start up capital to cover hardware, telephone install, and ISP costs. And then.. we'd need an additional $200 a month (at least... probably closer to $400) to keep going.

Sorry for taking so long with the reply... the terminal has been down, and I just brought the thing back up last night.

-- William (spqrspqr@hotmail.com), January 25, 1999.