Comment by bilegeek

I'll do my duty and provide some links as a fellow spelunker (apologies if you've already seen some of these):

http://textfiles.com/directory.html (https://archive.org/details/textfiles-dot-com-2011 or use rsync for a local copy), plus he made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary with the full interviews available (https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5289)

https://breakintochat.com/collections/messages/fidonet/index...

https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/msgs/

https://mirrors.archeobits.com/bbs/archives.thebbs.org/ (https://archive.org/details/bbsarchives_2017 for a local copy)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955294

https://archive.org/details/boardwatchmagazine

https://defacto2.net/bbs

https://web.archive.org/web/20241210143429/http://sysopshub....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klBD-U-9PIg