Does anyone know of MetroNet is still a thing?

Mickey
Central Ontario Remote - Mick's Place
centralontarioremote.net
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Does anyone know of MetroNet is still a thing?

Funny you ask. Sure is ...


The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info

Or find info on www.rgbbs.info/metronet.html

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Does anyone know of MetroNet is still a thing?

MetroNet is quiet but it's still up and running.

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Hello Al!

12 Nov 25 02:02, you wrote to Mickey:

Does anyone know of MetroNet is still a thing?

MetroNet is quiet but it's still up and running.

I sent an application and never heard anything so deadly quiet :)

TheCivvie


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Does anyone know of MetroNet is still a thing?

MetroNet is quiet but it's still up and running.

I sent an application and never heard anything so deadly quiet :)

Something must have got between your app and the net.

It's run by Exodus who you can find here about.

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Hello Al!

12 Nov 25 03:50, you wrote to me:

Does anyone know of MetroNet is still a thing?

MetroNet is quiet but it's still up and running.

I sent an application and never heard anything so deadly quiet :)

Something must have got between your app and the net.

It's run by Exodus who you can find here about.

In fairness I forgot about it until now. I will dig out the application and resend it

TheCivvie


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On 11 Nov 2025, Exodus said the following...

Does anyone know of MetroNet is still a thing?

Funny you ask. Sure is ...

I emailed an app a few days ago, so I thought I'd ask. :-)

Mickey
Central Ontario Remote - Mick's Place
centralontarioremote.net
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On 12 Nov 2025, Al said the following...

Does anyone know of MetroNet is still a thing?

MetroNet is quiet but it's still up and running.

That's good to know. I'm a Renegade newbie and thought I'd join up.

Mickey
Central Ontario Remote - Mick's Place
centralontarioremote.net
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MetroNet is quiet but it's still up and running.

I sent an application and never heard anything so deadly quiet :)

When and to whom? I never got it.

... I went to court for a parking ticket. I pleaded insanity

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I emailed an app a few days ago, so I thought I'd ask. :-)

Never got it. Did you send it to e@rgbbs.info? Send again please.

Or telnet over here and email it to me on the BBS and give me a good email to get back to you.

... Insanity is fun if you do it right.

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On 12 Nov 2025, Exodus said the following...

Never got it. Did you send it to e@rgbbs.info? Send again please.

Or telnet over here and email it to me on the BBS and give me a good
email to get back to you.

I sent it to e@rgbbs.info, so I'll try again today and hope for the best.

Thanks

Mickey
Central Ontario Remote - Mick's Place
centralontarioremote.net
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Hello Exodus!

12 Nov 25 12:02, you wrote to me:

MetroNet is quiet but it's still up and running.

I sent an application and never heard anything so deadly quiet :)

When and to whom? I never got it.

I cannot remember as it wwas some time ago. I am going to get the pack and send it in later today I hope

TheCivvie


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Hello Exodus!

13 Nov 25 18:39, I wrote to you:

MetroNet is quiet but it's still up and running.

I sent an application and never heard anything so deadly quiet :)

When and to whom? I never got it.

I cannot remember as it wwas some time ago. I am going to get the pack
and send it in later today I hope

I grabbed the info file and emailed it to you. When I was filling it out, I remembered that I uploaded it to your system. Maybe it did not transfer ok


TheCivvie


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I sent it to e@rgbbs.info, so I'll try again today and hope for the best.

Thanks

Mickey
Central Ontario Remote - Mick's Place

Got it, will reply once I get home later. Thanks!

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I cannot remember as it wwas some time ago. I am going to get the pack and send it in later today I hope

Looks like I got it, sent a reply via email.

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Hello Exodus!

13 Nov 25 16:16, you wrote to me:

I cannot remember as it wwas some time ago. I am going to get the
pack and send it in later today I hope

Looks like I got it, sent a reply via email.

All set up I believe, transferring chat ;)
TheCivvie


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On 13 Nov 2025, Exodus said the following...

Got it, will reply once I get home later. Thanks!
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And then it was installed. Testing now. Thanks for the trouble.

Mickey
Central Ontario Remote - Mick's Place
centralontarioremote.net
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And then it was installed. Testing now. Thanks for the trouble.

NO issues, welcome.

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On 11/11/2025 6:21 PM, Exodus wrote to Mickey:

Does anyone know of MetroNet is still a thing?

Funny you ask. Sure is ...

The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info

Or find info on www.rgbbs.info/metronet.html

I tried going to your website. Malwarebytes blocked it for possible riskware.

Mike Dippel

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I tried going to your website. Malwarebytes blocked it for possible riskw

Mike Dippel

HAHAHAHA ... That's crazy. It's all hosted from GitHub, so you can look at all the source for the website, there is nothing bad going on there. Stupid antivirus crap.

... If this isn't war, why is CNN massing on the border?

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I tried going to your website. Malwarebytes blocked it for possible riskw

Mike Dippel

HAHAHAHA ... That's crazy. It's all hosted from GitHub, so you can look at all the source for the website, there is nothing bad going on there. Stupid antivirus crap.

If you have *any* older dos programs available for download that were either (1) compressed with PKLITE or similar, or (2) written with any type of anti-hack code included (i.e. shareware doors), and one of those web
crawler sites finds it, they will black flag your IPA.

Malwarebytes is bad about this. They use a bunch of sources and, if your
IPA is flagged by just one of them, you are going to be blocked. They supposedly have a way that you can contact them and get your site
whitelisted, but my attempt to do so a couple of years ago made it very apparent that you need to be a *paying customer* of theirs in order for
them to do anything about it.

I used to allow any web surfer to surf by and download old DOS programs
but, after dealing with that, I had to set my file areas up to no longer
allow guest access.


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If you have *any* older dos programs available for download that were eith (1) compressed with PKLITE or similar, or (2) written with any type of anti-hack code included (i.e. shareware doors), and one of those web crawler sites finds it, they will black flag your IPA.

Interesting. There is only software I wrote on there. Plus the included NetFOSS by PCMicro included in the Renegade BBS archive. NetSpy from NetFOSS throws a flag as a virus everytime. Maybe thats the cause.

This is the first I've ever heard of someone that can't get to the website.

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On 11/11/2025 6:21 PM, Exodus wrote to Mickey:

Does anyone know of MetroNet is still a thing?

Funny you ask. Sure is ...

The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info

Or find info on www.rgbbs.info/metronet.html

I tried going to your website. Malwarebytes blocked it for possible riskware.

It blocks almost every bbs domain there is. I've asked them to add an
optional bbs whitelist, but they evidently don't keep a seperate list.

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