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About the FTN Clearing House

Welcome to the FTN Clearing House.

The FTN Clearing House (FCH) is both a FTN Mailer and FTN message tosser, where mail is stored internally in a DB. FCH can also hatch and toss files into FTN networks for both up/downstream nodes.

It was created as an idea to bring modern technology and capabilities to a legacy computing network that existed in the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's (before the Internet basically).

Setting up a BBS is fun, but using a BBS for the long term, in amongst our busy lives can involve some repetitive tasks. In the same vain, maintaining and growing an FTN network also can be time consuming, especially when your effort (or lack thereof) can affect the experience of your users. So FCH was created to help address that.

Building this software is driven by two main goals:

So that you can send your time playing on your BBS rather than managing messages/fails or keeping an FTN network running.

For the BBS Sysop

For the BBS sysop, the FTN Clearing House has the following features (or planned ones):

For the FTN network operator

For the FTN network operator, the FTN Clearing House has the following features (or planned ones):

Other things

Other ideas that may make it into this tool:

To get started, please login.

Open Source

FTN Clearing House is build with Open Source software. At it's core, PHP drives this web UI and the interaction with nodes.

This web UI has been inspired by the great work at int10h.org. If you have ideas to make it even better, please send me a message, or submit your comments in gitlab

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