This article is from the Esperanto FAQ, by Mike Urban urban@netcom.com and Yves Bellefeuille yan@storm.ca with numerous contributions by others.
Several Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes) provide Esperanto services.
In North America:
USA: Microdot BBS, (812) 944-3907, New Albany, Indiana (near
Evansville)
Part of the WWIV network of BBS systems. WWIV systems may
subscribe to the Esperanto group "La Samideanoj".
USA: Satronics TBBS, (215) 464-3562 (1200-2400 bps 8-N-1),
(215) 698-1905 (28 800 bps 8-N-1)
Sysop: Mark F. Miller <Mark.F.Miller@mail.tju.edu>
Has an Esperanto forum. No telnet or WWW access.
Satronics TBBS is a non-commercial, community-supported BBS.
In South America:
Brazil: EducNet BBS, +55 61 347 24 83; area no 5 is in Esperanto
Sysop: Erasmo Gagliardi <gagliard@brnet.com.br>
In Europe:
Netherlands: Esperantlingva Bultenejo Saluton!,
tel. +31-53-4326886. FidoNet 2:283/323.
Sysop: Wim Koolhoven <wim@saluton.iaf.nl>
Devoted entirely to Esperanto.
Italy: AGORA' telematiko, Torre Argentina Societa' di
Servizi S.p.A.
tel. 39-6-6892828 (10) 300/1200/2400 MNP5 N81
39-6-6832366 (10) 300 > 9600 MNP5 N81 V42 V42bis USRobotics
1421 (Easy Way Itapac)
Itapac NUA 26500016 (32) 1200 N81 S71 DNIC 0222
Tymnet login: agora (16) 2400 N81 S71
Internet telnet: agora.stm.it
Sysop: "Esperanto" Radikala Asocio <E.R.A.@agora.stm.it>
FidoNet:
International echo: ESPERANTO (same as Usenet group
soc.culture.esperanto), Mario Mueller, 2:241/200.9
Dutch echo: ESPERANTO.028, Wim Koolhoven, 2:283/323
Portuguese echo: ESPERANTO_36, Ze Manel, 2:361/1
(Or Fausto Karvalo, 2:361/1? Still works?)
Common, partly in Russian: ESPERANTO.RUS, Anatoli Gulidov,
2:5020/388.1
Courses, for speakers of Russian and Ukrainian: DR.ESPERANTO,
Va Milushnikov, 2:465/101.2
Bitnet:
The mailing list ESPER-L mentioned above is also available in Bitnet.
Send "subscribe esper-l" to listserv@trearn. (Use this address only if
mailing from a Bitnet account. If mailing from an Internet account,
use the address listserv@vm.ege.edu.tr, as mentioned above.)
Minitel, France:
3615 ESPERANTO (1,27 FRF/min):
General information, contacts, upcoming events
3614 CNX*#ESPERANT (0,36 FRF/min):
Discussion group, personal mailboxes
3614 CNX*#JEFO (0,36 FRF/min):
Reserved for members of JEFO (French Organization of Young
Esperantists)
3614 PING
Online chat and mailbox service in four languages
(French, Esperanto, Italian, and English)
3614 RIBOUREL
"300 pages about/in Esperanto"
Compuserve:
CompuServe Information Service (CIS) has an Esperanto board in its
Foreign Languages Education Forum. CIS subscribers can type GO FLEFO for
further information.
Prodigy:
There is an Esperanto forum in the section "Foreign Languages".
America On Line (AOL):
America Online has about 140 members whose list of interests include
"Esperanto", but no specific Esperanto forum exists.
GEnie:
GEnie has some discussion of Esperanto in the Public Affairs Roundtable
board, Category 15 -- International Affairs, Topic 29.
 
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