I was a BBS user, and also ran a multi-line TAG board (you probably wouldn't know TAG unless you were from Michigan) for a while. Was a FIDOnet node, and was active on the CyberCrime (I think that was the name of it) that some guy out of FL (I think) administered, plus a few other 'nets that I've long since forgotten.
During my short college stint in '91 I found one of the main patch panels for our campus and patched an unused line to my dorm room to run a small BBS out of the dorm for a while. The dorms were setup then so that 2 rooms shared 1 phone line (and 1 bathroom as well). My dorm room had the shared line, a dedicated line, and "access" to the phone lines of the room above us, as the inhabitants never seemed to be there on weekends and it was a waste to fight over phone usage when there was a free line just sitting there...
During my short college stint in '91 I found one of the main patch panels for our campus and patched an unused line to my dorm room to run a small BBS out of the dorm for a while. The dorms were setup then so that 2 rooms shared 1 phone line (and 1 bathroom as well). My dorm room had the shared line, a dedicated line, and "access" to the phone lines of the room above us, as the inhabitants never seemed to be there on weekends and it was a waste to fight over phone usage when there was a free line just sitting there...