+++ Day is almost here. We are just one week away from celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Hayes receiving its patent for the +++ modem escape sequence! Be sure to get your ATDT on and make some (modem) noise on October 22, 2025! You can learn more about the +++ Day and its related festivities at https://www.southernamis.com/group/day/discussion.

-JP
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Re: +++ Day
By: John Polka to All on Wed Oct 15 2025 11:10 pm

sure to get your ATDT on and make some (modem) noise on October 22, 2025! Yo

Hey, this sounds great! I can't wait for +++
NO CARRIER

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Re: +++ Day
By: phigan to John Polka on Thu Oct 16 2025 07:07 am

sure to get your ATDT on and make some (modem) noise on October 22,
2025! Yo

Hey, this sounds great! I can't wait for +++
NO CARRIER

I think I still have a couple of internal modems out in the shed, Maybe I'll bring one up and throw a few carriers around.

... Misspelled? Impossible. My modem is error correcting.

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Hey, this sounds great! I can't wait for +++
NO CARRIER

When I was running GT Power under dial-up 30 years ago, a fellow
Sysop and ham radio operator had logged on. We were in chat, and I
decided to play a joke on him.

He stepped away from the console for a few minutes, and I typed
in NO CARRIER -- to make it look like we had gotten disconnected.
Shortly thereafter, he disconnected!!

When I confessed to the dirty trick, he replied "Hee hee hee.
@$$hole!!" <G>

Daryl

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John,

+++ Day is almost here. We are just one week away from
celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Hayes receiving its patent
for the +++ modem escape sequence! Be sure to get your ATDT on
and make some (modem) noise on October 22, 2025! You can learn
more about the +++ Day and its related festivities at https://www.southernamis.com/group/day/discussion.

Cool!! That sure brings back memories.

I thought about getting the sound of the modem connecting, and
then lead into an announcement that "I'm working on the BBS"...but telemarketers and others would think they had dialed a fax line;
yet it wouldn't connect when they tried to send a junk fax.

When I ran a dial-up system, I used BGFAX with InterMail at the
front end, before loading the BBS. No telling how many junk faxes
came in...but the funny part was that they were all saved to files,
and no paper or ink was wasted. <G>

Daryl

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Re: Re: +++ Day
By: Daryl Stout to phigan on Fri Oct 17 2025 12:22 pm

When I was running GT Power under dial-up 30 years ago, a fellow Sysop and ham radio operator had logged on. We were in chat, and I decided to play a joke on him.

He stepped away from the console for a few minutes, and I typed in NO CARRIER -- to make it look like we had gotten disconnected. Shortly thereafter, he disconnected!!

I used to use RemoteAccess to run my BBS in the 90s, and at the time, I often used IceChat to chat with users. IceChat had a sysop feature where it could create fake line noise, generating random characters at random locations on the screen. So if you didn't want to chat with a user anymore, you could start doing that and say there's line noise so that they'd go away. :P

Nightfox

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Daryl Stout wrote to John Polka <=-

When I ran a dial-up system, I used BGFAX with InterMail at the
front end, before loading the BBS. No telling how many junk faxes
came in...but the funny part was that they were all saved to files,
and no paper or ink was wasted. <G>

I always wanted to do that, figure some way to manage inbound fax when I
ran the BBS and consulted on the side.

Reminded me of a scene in Ted Lasso, when he's trying to find a fax at a
hotel in England to send something to his divorce lawyer. The woman in
line asks if he's trying to get a message to 1997.

Ted says, "Yes, I'm telling myself to buy Apple stock".

The concierge tells him that the hotel does not have one, but he's
contacted a tanning salon a ways away that has one.



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Re: Re: +++ Day
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Daryl Stout on Sun Oct 19 2025 08:58 am

Daryl Stout wrote to John Polka <=-

When I ran a dial-up system, I used BGFAX with InterMail at the front end, before loading the BBS. No telling how many junk faxes came in...but the funny part was that they were all saved to files, and
no paper or ink was wasted. <G>

I always wanted to do that, figure some way to manage inbound fax
when I ran the BBS and consulted on the side.

distinctive ring.
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Hello Daryl!


** On Friday 17.10.25 - 12:22, Daryl Stout wrote to John Polka:

When I ran a dial-up system, I used BGFAX with InterMail at the
front end, before loading the BBS. No telling how many junk faxes
came in...but the funny part was that they were all saved to files,
and no paper or ink was wasted. <G>

I did the same. BGFAX/2 on an OS/2 system.

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Hi Mro,
In a message to Poindexter Fortran you wrote:

I always wanted to do that, figure some way to manage inbound fax
when I ran the BBS and consulted on the side.

distinctive ring.

I had tried using the BGFax option, but I could never get them to print correctly so I picked up a cheap fax machine and used distinctive ring
on my voice line for years.

When I was no longer contracting for the gubment I was able to cancel the number as they were the only place that still used fax (in my business)

... Bastard: Stabs you in the back and has you arrested for hiding a weapon.


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Re: Re: +++ Day
By: Daryl Stout to John Polka on Fri Oct 17 2025 12:22 pm

When I ran a dial-up system, I used BGFAX with InterMail at the

Intermail was the last mailer I ran before I dropped out of FidoNet around 96 or 97. I liked that mailer for it's simplicity. And it just worked.

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Re: Re: +++ Day
By: Tiny to Mro on Mon Oct 20 2025 05:33 am

Hi Mro,
In a message to Poindexter Fortran you wrote:

I always wanted to do that, figure some way to manage

inbound fax

when I ran the BBS and consulted on the side.

distinctive ring.

I had tried using the BGFax option, but I could never get them to
print correctly so I picked up a cheap fax machine and used

distinctive ring was great back in the day.
you didnt need to pay for 2 phone lines.

When I was no longer contracting for the gubment I was able to cancel
the number as they were the only place that still used fax (in my
business)

i actually had to fax a pinhead last week because they were ignoring my emails. i used an online site and sent 5 screenshots of my email.
that got their attention.
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Hi Mro,
On <Wed, 21 Oct 25>, you wrote me:

distinctive ring was great back in the day.
you didnt need to pay for 2 phone lines.

Exactly, and for faxing that's really all that was needed. I didn't get
enough of them to make yet another phone line worth it. Laugh, at one
point there was only one bhell installer who was even willing to come
to my house to add another.

i actually had to fax a pinhead last week because they were ignoring
my emails. i used an online site and sent 5 screenshots of my
email. that got their attention.

Nice. I can't even think of the last fax I sent, I guess it would have
been when I was still selling mortgages.

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