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Hook and Rail BBS
■ NOT UP it missed the last check · checked
on The Vortex’s BBS list
- address
- 35.208.121.0
- listed by
- David Baker
- runs
- Synchronet · 4 nodes · Telnet
- where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- added by
- bbs hq on The Vortex, not yet verified as its sysop
prove it is yours - listed
Welcome to the Hook & Rail BBS! A premium retro-terminal experience featuring mind-blowing custom 24-bit ANSI graffiti and pixel art. Drop anchor, explore our custom themes, and join the crew.
is it answering
answered 54 of 62 checks · reliability 66% · 8 misses in a row
one mark a dial, oldest first — green answered, red did not. 62 kept, since ; the directory calls every board every night and remembers six months of them.
the score
nobody has scored it yet
six axes, one to ten, rated here or inside the BBS list on The Vortex — one score, either way. a rating fades with age, so come back and rate it again in a season.
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their screens


every screen this board has drawn for a caller before login — 2 so far, since . a board that changes its welcome art keeps every screen here; one we stop meeting on our regular calls is let go after three visits and six months. the art belongs to its sysop and its artists.