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Ah, the good old days. I remember dialing up local BBSes with QMODEM.

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PoiZoN BBS Sysop chiming in. I ran the BBS on a free phone line I found in my childhood bedroom. I alerted the phone company and a tech spent a day trying to untangle it, but gave up at the end of his shift. He even stopped by to tell me it wouldn’t be fixed.

I didn’t know the phone number, so I bought a Caller ID box, hooked it to my home line, and phoned home. It wasn’t long before every BBS in town had a listing for it.

Man that tech was cool and did you a solid.

Many techs went to work for the phone companies for a reason.

That's awesome.

I had to wait til I was old enough to get a phone line in my own name before running a BBS. And also til I had a modem that would auto-answer, which was not a given back then!

But I confess my first question for a working but unassigned phone line would be: who gets the bill for long distance calls?

I had access to no-cost long distance calling through other administrative oversights, but they were a bit more effort to maintain! :)

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