Re: Floater online bridge: portable, free, non-commercial

Even Windows has telnet.  In fact, to this day I use telnet to
connect to OKB from work where I am behind a firewall.

Todd

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> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:02:26 -0500, Lex Spoon
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >OkBridge used to be
> >free, but started charging usage fees after it became popular.
>
> You're (at best) misinformed about OKBridge's history. The
> point at which OKBridge started charging fees was when it
> moved from the university servers, where you could play for
> free but only if you had (or could telnet into) a Unix box,
> to Matt's own servers and using his own bandwidth. This was
> the point at which people like myself, who had only a
> Windows PC and no access to a Unix box, were able to start
> playing on OKBridge.
>
> The big boom in OKB's popularity came *after* it started
> charging, because getting their own hardware and
> connectivity greatly increased the pool of potential
> members.
>
>
> Brian.
>